steveh_131
Grandmaster
T. Lex, this may help. It is a little heavier on the statistical jargon, but readable.
Directed Acyclic Graphs and the MMR vaccine doesn?t cause autism ? EpidemioLogical
This guy quotes the same pharma-funded bloggers that you did and makes the same fallacious claims:
As Reuben and others have pointed out, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a stronger association was seen between older children (age 3) and autism than between younger children (18 and 24 months) and autism. Children are usually diagnosed the older they are, when they start missing more milestones. So a younger kid has less of a chance to be diagnosed but, because of recommendations on vaccination, more of a chance of being vaccinated. That is yet another effect modification (or confounder, whichever) that the Hooker paper seems to not have accounted for.
I truly do not understand this. Level.eleven, I would ask that you clarify since you keep posting it.
When I read the paper, it was fairly clear that these numbers represented the age cut-off for MMR vaccinations. Why do these bloggers keep acting like this number is somehow related to the age at which they are diagnosed? These kids could have been diagnosed at any age.