Peer 4
The question of how MMR or other vaccines (because some unvaccinated children have presumably missed other vaccines) can prevent autism appears to me to be essential to solving this issue...
The question of how MMR or other vaccines (because some unvaccinated children have presumably missed other vaccines) can prevent autism appears to me to be essential to solving this issue...
I agree that there is nothing special about p-value thresholds such as 0.05. On the other hand, note that no correction has been made for multiple tests...
The authors think the artefact was interesting enough to discuss extensively, and they were in my opinion right to do so. Whether one deems the neuroprotective artefact worth discussion depends on…
"...though it only reaches significance in one (unadjusted) case."That fact largely undermines your point, doesn't it? Statistical noise and confounding variables such as parental education level…
At peer 3 - interesting to turn the original comment on its head and look at whether MMR protects against autism. Personally, I think the problem with much of the discussion of vaccination and…
The discussion section of the study correctly states the main weakness of this study, but does not weight the weakness of the study nearly enough in evaluating the study's validity...
Okay, I see where you’re coming from now. I was going by cases that could be directly enumerated from crude calculations from the table. I acknowledged the complete data sets were needed to resolve…
No, that conclusion is incorrect. 79 is the number of cases diagnosed *by age 5* among those unvaccinated at age 5. You would need to instead use the number cases in that group that had been…
"...you erroneously conclude that there were only 11 (90-79) ASD cases among those first vaccinated after age four but before age five."No, I concluded there were only 11 ASD cases diagnosed by age 4…
"Jain et al. should make their data available for independent analysis to other researchers."Thing is unreg #1, we researchers do this thing called peer review...
Your analysis appears to be based on a misinterpretation of the data. Because Table 2 shows a total of 90 cases of ASD among those unvaccinated at age 4, and a total of 79 at age 5, you erroneously…
The latest study of MMR vaccination and autism by Jain et al.(1) claims to show no evidence of an association between measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccination and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)...