This is Kahneman and Tversky framing of decisions stuff: Doing something that is known to kill a certain number of people is less preferred decision compared to doing nothing knowing that some people might die. If the news article focused on the tens of thousands saved by the vaccine compared to the tends of thousands who have morbidity and mortality from getting cervical cancer the discussion about the unfortunate few who (allegedly) die from the vaccine might shift away from outrage.
-- Paul Bernhardt Frostburg State University Frostburg, MD, USA On 9/29/09 10:19 AM, "Beth Benoit" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Just after Mike Palij posted the suggestion that we take a look at the > article discussing the fact that there will be deaths following flu vaccines, > but they are likely to be deaths that would have occurred naturally, this just > came in to Google News: the death of a girl in England after she was given > the cervical cancer vaccine. The vaccination programs has been halted while > the situation is being examined. It should be interesting to see if this is > yet another correlation-without-causation situation, or what factors are > actually involved. > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/sep/29/cervical-cancer-vaccinations-pos > tponed > > I imagine that even though the news that there have been over a million doses > given without anything like this happening, the program will face huge > challenges now. > > Beth Benoit > Granite State College > Plymouth State University > New Hampshire > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
