@al
Indeed - people expect too much of science. I'm not sre whether the MMR research was sound, but, even if it was, it wouldn't follow that the answer was certain. Good research can produce untrue results.

Something similar is true of the misuse of statistics: people cut, say, coffee from their diet because they've been told that it doubles the risk of, say, cancer, when what might actually be the case is that it doubles the risk of a certain cancer from nothing to practically nothing.

And don't get me stared on people who think that "detox" is meaningful and that they need to drink 8 glasses of water a day...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 11:39, Reply)