“But Kennedy, too, has used his prominence to unnecessarily scare parents about the safety of vaccinations.
Kennedy’s case for this frightening assertion is that since 1989, two things occurred together: there has been a rise in neurologic and autoimmune diseases; and, we give children more vaccines. In the interviews I have listened to, he doesn’t take the argument much further than this, and I find it to be entirely lacking. It is low-quality causal reasoning, and is unpersuasive.”
This kind of ‘low-quality causal reasoning’ is not the kind of decision making entity we want to drive towards a position of power that is often presented with rapidly developing information or nebulous intelligence reports, where jumping to conclusions based on faulty reasoning can directly impact the lives of millions…