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PS: "less robust than she assumed" is meaningless, unless what "she assumed" is meaningful in the context of what is safe.

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Well, it’s common to hear that the autism-vaccination relationship has been studied into the ground. I think many parents would assume that means there are double-blind placebo-controlled longitudinal studies. Suppose a parent whose child develops autism goes to consult those studies, is surprised to learn that they don’t exist, and concludes that she won’t vaccinate her next child unless such studies are performed. You can argue that that parent is wrong, perhaps because she’s demanding a too costly or even unethical study design, but[b] I don’t really see any defect in erudition accounting for the parent’s perspective[/b]. [/quote]

Erudition is the quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning. How would this woman thinking that the appropriate way to study the autism-vaccination relationship is a series of double-blind placebo-controlled longitudinal studies show great knowledge or learning?[/quote]

I’m not saying the mom is erudite. I’m saying that the mom is making a value judgment and that it’s condescending to suggest her position is rooted in a lack of erudition.[/quote]

She's making a value judgment that the most appropriate studies to assess that question were not done, but it doesn't matter that she was wrong in knowing what was and was not the best type of study in this context?

That certainly seems like an error in learning or knowledge. Not that she is a bad person, but she doesn't know what she doesn't know.

None of that means the woman should be mocked, or have her authority over making decisions for her child's care undermined, or be treated with disrespect, or any of that. But an error in knowledge is an error in knowledge.[/quote]

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