You are arguing from ignorance. As I said, Gregory Poland has attributed the increase in the rate of deaths per reported measles cases to "the increased incidence of measles infection in infants and adults relative to children older than 1 year of age." https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1994.00420160048006 …https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1167191077146677248 …
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Replying to @jeremyrhammond
That's a paper arguing for two doses of the measles vaccine to prevent outbreaks. You're cherry picking some quotes from research that completely contradicts your position
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Replying to @GidMK
The fact Poland advocated the two-dose regimen is completely irrelevant to the point for which I quoted him.
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Replying to @jeremyrhammond
No, in fact it's rather central. Cherry-picking a single sentence out of a 94 paper only makes sense if you are somehow uninterested in the literature as a whole, or trying to deceptively undermine any argument with non sequiturs
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Replying to @jeremyrhammond
A single out-of-context sentence from a 1994 paper is an obvious non-sequitur
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Replying to @GidMK
This is a meaningless statement. The quote from the paper proves my point, and you are just trying to deflect from that fact.
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Replying to @jeremyrhammond
Hardly. In fact, taking the literature - in this case a single sentence - in context is baseline scholarship. First year of undergrad stuff It's like telling me War and Peace is bad after reading half of the first page
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Replying to @GidMK
The problem with your argument is that the context of the quote supports the point for which I provided it.
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Replying to @jeremyrhammond
Not at all. The reference was obviously quite specific, to a 1990 outbreak that at the time was the biggest and most fatal one since the 70s. In fact, modern outbreaks have shown that this prediction is not a rule, and may have at that point been an artifact of chance
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A more recent reference, for example, is the 2017/18 outbreaks which had case mortality rates between 1 and 2, or roughly 0.2% https://www.who.int/csr/don/06-may-2019-measles-euro/en/ …
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