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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
1 in 66,000 and yet people apparently know handfuls of friends and relatives with vaccine injuries.
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Originally Posted by bagofpucks
The most frustrating part is so many of these anecdotal stories make zero sense, but people still take them as fact.
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Our brains strongly want us to believe that because B follows A, A caused B.
But with large sample sizes like the entire population you're guaranteed to get negative health incidents (which happen all the time) shortly after receiving a vaccine that are unrelated.
Add in the fact that many people that fall into this category are going to talk and find each other and be vocal it's not hard to see why some arrive at conclusions that aren't supported by the data.