No Evidence of Harm? A “Garbage In, Garbage Out” Analysis of the Aluminum Vaccine Study

The dataset is massive, but if the inputs are poorly contrasted and confounded, then your statistical power just lets you confidently detect nothing — which is exactly what happened. - manu

A new observational study led by Prof. Anders Hviid – and promoted heavily by Prof. Jeffrey S. Morris – claims to find “no evidence of harm” from aluminum-containing vaccines in children. 

The dataset includes over 1.2 million Danish children, a size that, on the surface, seems to scream reliability...

• But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find a textbook case of how to spin noise into confidence. Let’s walk through it.
• This is a textbook case of GIGO (“Garbage In, Garbage Out”). 

Here’s why...Much here, read all!