Journal questions validity of autism and vaccine study By Debra Goldschmidt, CNN

Journal questions validity of autism and vaccine study
By Debra Goldschmidt, CNN

(CNN) -- The debate over a link between autism and vaccines continues.
A study published earlier this month concluded African-American boys are more at risk for autism if they're given the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine before the age of 2. The study author says researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention knew about the link in 2004 -- and covered it up.
CDC researchers are standing by their original findings: that there is no link between autism and vaccination schedules.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/27/health/irpt-cdc-autism-vaccine-study/index....


"If you analyze data enough times and enough ways, you're bound to find something that is statistically significant," said Witznitzer, after looking at both studies. "This does not mean that the result is a true positive (vs. a false positive) or meaningful."


Something to think about.

"If you analyze data enough times and enough ways, you're bound to find something that is statistically insignificant,", in other words, opposite conclusions can be reached by analyzing the same data set, if you just analyze data enough times and enough ways.





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