{"id":10661,"date":"2023-08-03T16:42:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T21:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10661"},"modified":"2024-08-04T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T21:48:40","slug":"does-race-change-vaccine-risk-factors","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/does-race-change-vaccine-risk-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Does race change vaccine risk factors?"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row source=”” text=”Clinical Trials” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” google_fonts=”font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” link=”” css=”.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Claim:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]\n
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RFK Jr.<\/a>\u00a0is getting a lot of attention for his claims that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered to attack some while being less severe for others. His history of claiming that vaccines are prone to causing autism, particularly in some sub-segments of the population, is being\u00a0recirculated by people<\/a> who agree and feel like now is the moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Facts:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]RFK Jr.\u2019s claims about autism are based on a re-analysis by\u00a0Brian Hooker<\/a>\u00a0(chemical engineer) of a previous autism study. One of its co-authors of the original study expressed concerns about the original findings, claiming that important data was left out. So, Hooker got the data he claimed was missing, added it to the study, and did his own calculations.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0CDC<\/a>\u00a0defended its original study and said there was no cover-up.<\/p>\n

Experts criticized Hooker\u2019s re-analysis, saying it was flawed and didn\u2019t consider other variables that could influence the results. They questioned how he used the CDC data set and argued that the study design was inappropriate for his analysis.<\/p>\n

Brian Hooker used a\u00a0cohort design<\/a>\u00a0to analyze a dataset originally intended for\u00a0case-control analysis<\/a>. Subsequently, he performed multiple\u00a0subset analyses<\/a>, which can besusceptible to\u00a0false positives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When evidence is\u00a0excessively segmented<\/a>\u00a0or divided into smaller subsets for analysis, there is a higher likelihood of observing apparent correlations that may not nactually be meaningful or valid. This phenomenon is often called the \u201cmultiple comparisons problem\u201d or \u201cdata dredging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s illustrate this with an example:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine a researcher is studying the relationship between eating ice cream and the incidence of sunburns in a particular city over the summer months. They collect dataon ice cream sales and sunburn cases for each day of the summer and decide to analyze the data in several ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. They compare ice cream sales on sunny days vs. cloudy days to see if more ice cream is sold on sunny days. They find a correlation: more ice cream is sold on sunny days.<\/li>\n
  2. They analyze sunburn cases on sunny days vs. cloudy days to see if more sunburns occur on sunny days. They find a correlation: more sunburns occur on sunny days.<\/li>\n
  3. They break the data into different age groups and compare ice cream sales and sunburn cases for each group. They find correlations within certain age groups.<\/li>\n
  4. They split the data into different time intervals (morning, afternoon, and evening) and compared ice cream sales and sunburn cases for each interval.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    They find correlations within some time periods.<\/p>\n

    Now, the researcher has several apparent correlations:<\/p>\n

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    • Sunny days are correlated with higher ice cream sales.<\/li>\n
    • Sunny days are correlated with more sunburn cases.<\/li>\n
    • Certain age groups show correlations between ice cream sales and sunburn cases.<\/li>\n
    • Specific time intervals show correlations between ice cream sales and sunburn cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      But here\u2019s the catch:<\/strong>\u00a0just because these correlations appear in the data doesn\u2019t necessarily mean a true cause-and-effect relationship exists between eating ice cream and getting sunburned. The correlations might be coincidental and not based on any real underlying relationship.<\/p>\n

      In scientific research, it is crucial to be cautious about interpreting correlations.<\/p>\n

      And about taking medical advice from environmental lawyers.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      RFK Jr.’s claims about vaccines and autism, based on a flawed re-analysis of CDC data, are scientifically unsupported and highlight the pitfalls of data misinterpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[195,218],"class_list":["post-10661","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-autism","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10665,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10661\/revisions\/10665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}