(I joke that the first 6 weeks of med school was learning to say 6 syllable words and that when it comes to pronouncing those fancy words, who ever says them loudest in right. I don’t feel really challenged until I have to diagram the sentence to understand it.)
I think that there are bad things that happen a certain number of times in the general population. When two events happen close together in time or place, we tend to think one is caused by the other or that they’re connected. But they aren’t always connected. They’re sometimes coincidences, especially when you are turning the microscope on a fairly similar group, like adolescent girls.
Of course, statistics don’t mean a thing when those bad things happen to us or to someone we care about, or when we’re anxious enough to start focusing that microscope in the first place.
(I joke that the first 6 weeks of med school was learning to say 6 syllable words and that when it comes to pronouncing those fancy words, who ever says them loudest in right. I don’t feel really challenged until I have to diagram the sentence to understand it.)
I think that there are bad things that happen a certain number of times in the general population ...
Thanks for responding. In the following paragraph from the NVIC site, they state "bad things" numbers in what I would deem more than (the vague) "a certain number of times." Either their information is all "woo," or the Gardasil shot needs to be looked into as to its efficiency. Yes, your 6-syllable word link that you originally sent was well advanced. Simplifying speech (while trying not to condescend) seems a positive, because everyone needs help from time to time regardless of their education. Here's that paragraph:
"In the third article, written by government health officials, it was revealed that 1 in every 1,855 Gardasil shots is followed by a bad health outcome report to the government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. These bad health outcomes reported after Gardasil shots include lots of girls suddenly passing out and having seizures within minutes or hours of getting vaccinated and suffering head injuries and broken bones when they hit the floor. In fact, there is a larger than expected rate of girls passing out after getting Gardasil vaccine" --
from NVIC, Gardasil & Swine Flu Vaccines: Inconvenient Truths.
While "lots of girls" is vague as well, I'm not convinced this immunization is worth the reported/documented side effects.