Why Vaccines Do Not Work Without Trust

Why do pertussis vaccines fail?

The first reason, and perhaps the most important one, is that our estimates of vaccine efficacy have been inflated because of case definition.3–11 At the time of the pediatric diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine efficacy trials in the early 1990s, it was hoped that a universal case definition could be developed so that the results of the various trials could be...

Why do color transforms work?

Numerous papers have been written regarding techniques to translate color measurements from an RGB device (such as a scanner or camera) into some standard color space. The papers seem to ignore the mathematical "truth"... that the translation is impossible. Do these color transforms work, or under what conditions do they work, and what are the limitations? Why is it that they work (if they do)?...

Trust in Vaccines: Why It Takes More than Good Faith

This Vaccines issue on "Confidence in Vaccines" provides sound evidence through multiple perspectives of life-saving impacts when vaccination programs are effectively implemented in a population. Yet there remain challenges to achieving this impact, including scientific, medical, manufacturing, policy-related and logistical issues. Additionally, socio-cultural, religious and political agendas c...

Why UML will not do ?

Why do people retire from work early?

This article examines the validity of a mortality study of early retirees by Dr. Eric Kingson. The Kingson study supports the hypothesis that men who retired early were very prone to have work-limiting conditions even though they were not awarded Disability Insurance benefits. This article maintains that Kingson's study is analytically faulty because of the procedure used to categorize the samp...