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shaggy, that's from the miller and goldman "study" that outcold posted earlier.
their methodology was inadequate, they cherry picked the data. it's clear they had a bias going into it.
Here is a link to a more thorough listing of countries (224) and their Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) from 2009.
Please know this link takes you to a portion of the CIA website.
https://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/reference/factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html
The study I initially posted a link to was not to compare the United States to the rest of the world. The study was to compare the rates of vaccination to the occurrences of SIDS across a sampling of countries. But the United States is the country with the most doses of vaccine administered to infants less than 1 year old. In the world.
I suppose you can say the countries used in the study were cherry picked. But looking at where the United States is standing in the smaller and larger lists doesn’t strengthen the argument.
If the sampling of countries was done in an intelligent manner I see no reason to fault scientists and researchers. They do this as a career and have been educated in metrics for this type of public health research.
In addition it is reasonable to accept that the cross referenced IMR / immunization schedules was only comprehensive enough in the smaller sampling.
And lastly your authors true argument for cherry picking is that the study only used the 33 nations that had better mortality rates than the US.
Had the study used countries with worse mortality rates, the constant of the US vaccinating the most doses of any other country in the world would still not support any other argument.
Your author, Dr. David Gorski is relying on you to be asleep at the wheel.
Your argument to the validity of the study I posted is an identical argument presented by your author. Dismissive without substance.
Did you read his compelling critical look? It reads like a fox news commentator.
Which is disturbing, because that persons credentials, as well as the rest of the website seems to hold a level of legitimacy.
Why would the author brush off an NCBI article?