Conspiracy Factory: How science works: subtitled autism isn't caused by thimerosal

Friday, March 30, 2007

How science works: subtitled autism isn't caused by thimerosal

I spent a little time reading David Kirby's conspiracy mongering at the Huffington Post today. Apparently "main-stream" scientists, doctors, the CDC, philanthropists, and the pharmaceutical industry are all in on a conspiracy to make sure that children get autism. *sigh* Anyway, I was going to write a post about the difference between anecdotal and real data, but instead I give you this approximation from the nice folks at xecd.com.

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A Note About Google Ads

Google Ads seems to place the most obnoxious ads at the top of my blog. When I write a few posts about how acupuncture has been demonstrated not to work, it places an advertisement for acupuncture. When I write about creationist frauds, it puts up ads for creationist books (or more recently, for creationist movies).

I don't endorse these products. In many cases, I think it likely that the marketers are not only mistaken, but frauds.

I thought about taking these ads down, but instead, I'm leaving them there. I'm considering them an anthropology experiment for me, and my readers. It's a fascinating world out there. Feel free to comment on the ads and the products they are selling in the relevant posts.

I enjoy the irony that people like Ben Stein and Gary Null will be paying me to take Mrs. Factician out for a nice dinner (at current click rates, about once every 18 months).