Ha! Antivax methodology applied to #COVID19 Antivaxxers have been using the ecological fallacy to come up with spurious correlations between vaccinations and infant mortality (for example) for years and years. 1/https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1332187998343970816 …
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Yes, nine years ago, antivaxxers were doing the very same sort of BS study (even using the same sorts of outdated data sources) to try to correlate the number of vaccines in countries’ vaccination schedules to their infant mortality rates. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2011/05/16/vaccines-and-infant-mortality-rates/ …
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Three years before that, Mark and David Geier used the ecological fallacy to try to “prove” that vaccines cause autism. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2008/06/21/epiwonk-schools-david-kirby-in-epidemiol/ …
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Indeed, the ecological fallacy is a favorite tool of antivaxxers. It’s no surprise that antimaskers and anti-“lockdown” activists have adopted it. 4/4https://respectfulinsolence.com/2011/06/08/more-bad-science-in-the-service-of-the-discredited-idea/ …
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