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"Every day is good — some days are just gooder than others!" — Lindon Dodd
OK, I know gooder isn't a real word. So, please appreciate an attempt at humor and just go along with me here.
I intended to run another column this week but if you read this I probably didn't. That's OK. Everything changes in life and for me there have been some changes involving my column that some might have noticed and some might not have been so much so. I think they are subtle — but then I write what you read. It's all good.
I love writing about this community. I have loved to critique our home and have had some fun. I don't know if it the times that have changed or just me that is different. All I know is that it takes a lot of nerve to write a column for as long as I have done so and still be fresh and inspired. I have also lost the tendency to be as reckless and daring. That's just part of getting older. I know when I write that I write older today than I did over 17 years ago.
I don't even know the point of this week's essay except to let my regular readers know that my writing climate and parameters have changed both internally and externally.
Hey, I have had a good ride and if it ended next week — so be it that I have had the most wonderful time of my life in writing. Very few local writers have been allowed to do what I do.
I have certainly made some enemies. If you are an honest, published writer that is simply part of sharing your personal thoughts and convictions in a public forum. As brilliant as I think I might be, some will disagree. It's never really personal but some people will always take it that way.
I have never written a single derogatory or demeaning or even unpleasant thing about anyone that hadn't in some way made themselves a very public figure.
Humor is the easiest and yet hardest thing to write. Senses of humor are very much an objective thing of which to aim to a general audience. I have never known a universal joke or one-liner that either doesn't offend someone or that some people don't find funny.
It's not a real sense of humor to be able to laugh at someone else's expense and never at your own. Humility is an essential component to having a real sense of humor. I have often over the years made myself and those whom are closest to me and that I love the most an object of humor and/or the butt of the joke.
So, I am going to be as honest as I can be. I have to do a whole lot of soul searching these days. I am not really sure what exactly is expected of me from my readership and of my editor and publisher. Most important to me is the collective acceptance of people who genuinely like to read my column on a regular basis. You will always be the most essential and important element to me.
I will take suggestions from anyone as only a fool is not subject to accept positive feedback and critique and not analyze its value.
I simply find myself perplexed and between at this time. I will find the right answers as I have always seemed to be able to do in the long run. In the short run it's simply a turkey shoot for now.
The biggest responsibility for me is to write well and effectively and not cause anyone big problems.
Perhaps I might simply use the remainder of my writing life attempting mainly to explore this great community that I share with you guys. There are a lot of stories left to be told. It's easy to do those. A great story tells itself if the writer stays out of the way.
For now, I hope you are enjoying the holidays. Hopefully, next week will be better. Debbie Harbeson left us a short time ago. Kelley Curran is no longer in weekly print. Perhaps it's the landscape or possibly just the times that are a changing.
I hope I can change with the times. Stay tuned.
— Lindon Dodd is a freelance writer that can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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O THE EDITOR: More than 7 million people will visit the Adirondacks this year, but sadly, without needed federal support, these mountains may not be prepared for such crowds, visitors may see a park THAT isn't as pristine as in the past, and development may continue along its borders.
The current Congress could bring renewed hope that these majestic mountains — with their beloved lakes, pristine trails and popular ski resorts — by acting to protect our parks for generations to come.
Decades ago, Congress set up the Land and Water Conservation Fund to protect our parks against overdevelopment and pollution. Unfortunately, this program has been routinely underfunded for years. This has put the Adirondacks — and the memories and experiences millions will have by visiting them — at risk.
That's bad news for the Adirondacks, as well as other parks like Harriman State Park in the Hudson River Valley and Watkins Glen in the Finger Lakes region, where New Yorkers spend time hiking, fishing, boating, camping or simply enjoying the scenery.
We should protect these special places so future generations can experience seeing a moose up close or catching trout from the crystalline waters of a mountain lake, just as generations of New Yorkers have done before us.
We owe it to our children to protect the Adirondack Mountains and other places that make New York special, with full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
I applaud Senator Gillibrand for supporting our parks, open spaces and wilderness areas, and we hope New York's legislators will give our parks the protections they deserve.
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TO THE EDITOR: Recently Chazy Senior Housing sponsored a spaghetti dinner to benefit its building fund.
The venue was the Weathercock Restaurant in Chazy. Food was ably prepared by John O'Brien.
We would like to thank John and all those who helped and contributed to make the event a success. Food, supplies and much time were donated by the Crystal Caboose, West Chazy; D&D Meats, Sciota; Giroux Chazy Orchards; the Cattle Barn Restaurant, Chazy; Guma's Restaurant, West Chazy; Best Friends Restaurant, Rouses Point; Homestead Restaurant, Plattsburgh; Country Corner Restaurant, West Chazy; Lakeside Coffee, Rouses Point; Champlain Convenience Store; North Country Food Co-op, Plattsburgh, Perkins Bakery, Plattsburgh; Batters Up Bake Shop, Plattsburgh; Rambach's Bakery, Plattsburgh, Kinney Drugs, Champlain; Price Chopper, Plattsburgh/Champlain; Starbucks, Plattsburgh; Dunkin Donuts, Plattsburgh; Wal-Mart, Plattsburgh; Sam's Club, Plattsburgh; Target, Plattsburgh; Key Club. Chazy Central Rural School; Patricia Neverett, Chazy; and Yankee One Dollar Store, Champlain.
Again, thank you all for your continued support.
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Redditor Jasonp55 has a neat demonstration of the perils of confusing correlation with causation, and his well-chosen example makes this a potentially useful chart for discussing this issue with friends who won't vaccinate themselves and their kids.
/r/skeptic, I was practicing GraphPad and I think I may have discovered the 'real' cause of autism... (imgur.com) (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) Discuss
102 Responses to "Correlation between autism diagnosis and organic food sales"
Chris Ball says:
Of course, since there's no correlation between vaccination rates and autism, your false logic is flawed!
abstract_reg says:
If we played loose enough with the numbers we could make it look like there was. Consider, the first well documented case of autism was in 1747, and European countries started inoculations right around that time.
Of course, the autism case was in Scotland and the inoculations were happening in England and France, but don't let facts get in the way of being frightened.
ByondPolitics says:
"No correlation between X & autism" : that was the point. It's a perfectly common rhetorical device. You might want to read about analogies, straw men & reductio ad absurdum.
Mark Hoggan™ says:
But there is a correlation between child illness and not getting vaccinated, since there is no known cause for Autism spectrum disorder, the data is random.
The data are random.
jaclocla3 says:
My favorite example is from my first statistics class. The professor said that when ice cream sales went up, so did cases of polio. Nobody thought ice cream caused polio, though.
ahermit says:
My prof used ice cream sales and sexual assault…both increase in the summer in Winnipeg for some reason…
Boris Bartlog says:
The thing is, that example is actually a case where there *is* a connection, albeit via a third factor (summer). In some alternate universe where the causes of polio were totally unknown, that correlation could still be a useful clue to someone trying to solve the problem, even if a naive investigator would be misled.
redesigned says:
this is correct, i agree that is a very flawed example. there is a mutual causality to the shared correlation. just because the data set and factors are incomplete doesn't mean that the shared correlation is meaningless.
time for those professors to go back to school. :-)
while it is true you cannot infer causality to correlations, it doesn't mean you shouldn't investigate them or should consider them meaningless.
in the above graph, there could just as easily be a mutual third factor. if the perceived toxicity of conventionally grown food due to pesticides and fertilizers is driving the movement to purchase organic goods, that same factor might be affecting autism. not saying that it is, just reinforcing that these relationships while not necessarily directly connected can indeed be meaningful.
Colin Taylor says:
Actually I do seem to recall there was exactly such a scare (ice cream causing polio) for a time.
grandmapucker says:
This is just going to make Jenny McCarthy not eat organic food now too.
Perhaps she should stop eating food altogether.
Charles Boyer says:
Then she'd become tragedy fodder on the nightly entertainment news.
James Ferguson @kWIQly says:
Aaron –
People who do not eat and people who are dead correlate very strongly. And there is causality.
People who are dead do not eat and make no choice.
People who choose not to eat are alive.
It does appear that the act of choosing keeps us alive Or…. :)
Will says:
That's nonsense – all he's shown is that autistic people buy more organic food.
Yacko says:
Beat me to it. I knew something was driving the increasing demand for organic food, but I hardly would have guessed this connection. I wonder what other products should be pitched to the autistic among us.
Robot hugs.
Andrew Davies says:
Wait. Are you saying that vaccinations are a plot by the organic food industry to create more autistic organic food buying customers?
percysowner says:
Way back in the beginning of the drug wars, one of the cries was that something like 50% of all heroin users had tried marijuana at some time before they switched to heroin. One researcher noted that in America 99% of all heroin users and drunk milk before starting on heroin, yet that didn't make milk a gateway drug.
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tristan eldritch says:
"yet that didn't make milk a gateway drug."
Listen buddy, I had a chance in this life before I started glugging back the white stuff. Pretty soon I couldn't even drink tea or coffee without a top-up. I been Chasing the Teat ever since. Tried to kick with UHT a few times, but that just left me cold and shivering in the calcium-sick dawn.
You're another one of those stereotypical men; you look at a cow and all you see is an udder.
Well, bucko, I'm here to tell you it's 2013. That cow is more than a milk machine. She has a mind of her own. She can be an engineer, a corporate CEO, a small business owner. She will lactate IF she chooses and WHEN she chooses.
Now let's crash the Dairy Board meeting and throw milk-coloured paint.
B. Peasant says:
Indeed. I've worked with quite a few bovine engineers.
oasisob1 says:
Can she be a steak or a burger, because that's what I'm after.
TheOven says:
It's true. Name another mammal that drinks milk into adulthood – let alone another animal's milk. Total addition.
James MacDonald says:
My cat is fond of the occasional tipple. Then again, she was eating chicken necks yesterday. No concept of risk you see. Maybe she's autistic? After all, she doesn't like hugs and is totally self-centred.
Sue Belzer says:
I've never had a dog that wouldn't eagerly lap up milk.
Boris Bartlog says:
Would only be useful in arguing against anti-vaccine folks if the primary basis for their refusal were some similar graph comparing vaccination and autism rates. I'm thinking that's likely not the case.
mem_somerville says:
Actually, it's dual use. I see a lot of team organic blaming GMOs for autism (and a range of other health issues).
Boris Bartlog says:
Well, to play devil's advocate, I'd point out that the graph doesn't do anything to knock down that hypothesis – initial appearances notwithstanding. If we assume that the consumption of organic food was and remains at a very low level compared to all food consumption (probably true, organic food sales are only about $40 billion annually), then showing a nice exponential increase over time pretty much tells us nothing about changes in consumption of GMO food over time. More generally, the graph is mostly just a way of baiting anti-vaxers – it really doesn't show a damn thing, which is sort of the point, but on the other hand it doesn't provide a way to convince even a rational person of anything.
austinhamman says:
the point was "correlation != causation" and taking something obviously not the cause of autism like organic food, and showing it correlates with rates of autism helps illustrate why you shouldn't confound the two things.
giantasterisk says:
Sadly, the anti-vaccine folks are not persuadable. Doesn't matter what tack you take, confirmation bias will trump any facts you provide. And if you press the issue, they just decide you're a big meanie and dig their heels in further.
C W says:
I wish I could just mock them and the Morgellans for being idiots, though in the latter case it'd be their mental illness acting up and I'd feel bad :(
agileprovocateur says:
Bill gates just stopped 200 a year out of a billion in India from getting polio with vaccines right, but 27,000 kids die a day of curable diseases . How come people like boing boing and you don,t write about that . Where is your humanity, you don,t have to be very smart to work this out ,bigoted name calling like you did is unnecessary.
A Victory, Not A Conspiracy: Bill Gates And Ending Polio http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/01/12/bill-gates-and-polio-victory-not-conspiracy/
Boris Bartlog says:
The long-term payoff if you can entirely eliminate an infectious killer like polio or smallpox is huge; comparing annual deaths doesn't tell the whole story. But even if I disagreed with Gates' priorities (which you seem to, though I can't fully parse your comment), I'd hardly be inclined to call him out, since he's still doing more than most of us.
Nathan Smith says:
There is also a fascinating TED talk about sanitation and disease and evolution. I wish I could remember who it was by. Basically, it showed that the harder you made it for a disease to spread, the milder the disease became. I think the example they used was cholera.
Basically, basic sanitation removed cholera's preferred vector. If everyone is drinking water from a source that is easily contaminated, the disease's best vector to spread is explosive diarrhea. Bam. Someone else drinks contaminated water. It doesn't matter if it kills the person or not, the disease colony has already accomplished what it needs to do to spread. With better sanitation the disease has a harder time spreading. The versions that tend to spread slowly become the less virulent varieties, because killing your host tends to immobilize them pretty quickly. The milder varieties of the disease, the ones that make you less sick, tend to spread faster than the severe versions. The result is a double whammy. Countries with good sanitation not only have fewer incidence of water borne diseases, but they tend to have milder strains. (On top of that, they have better treatment, which turns the double whammy into a triple play.
Of course, immunization works a little differently, although not entirely. Flu vaccines do tend to make the flu that you do get less severe. The big thing with vaccines though is the herd immunity idea (which actually might respond to the same pressures- the more people are immune, the more mild the strains that do hit the un-immunized might have to evolve to be to spread at all.) The system falls apart when you get anti-vaxers though. :(
agileprovocateur says:
i apologize , obviously saving 200 a year from polio outweighs the lives of 27,000 children who"are dieing every day of cheaply curable illnesses lol ok fine sir ,The number a people who get polio is just a few hundred each year , its not Ebola k , was just a simple question i researched and got a eye opener when i seen the numbers i did provide a link right , my bad for expecting intelligence here i guess .
Now i just happen to be fascinated that everyone here demonizing me as anti vaccines, when my numbers are stupidly easy to find , you should have another look , Take care k
The only bigotry is in your head, bub. The fact is that the anti-vax movement is based entirely on lies and represents a clear and present danger to public health. And Morgellon's is without question a manifestation of mental illness.
Boris Bartlog says:
I'm pretty skeptical of the 'clear and present danger' part. A lot of pro-vaccine folks underestimate the extent to which sanitation, refrigeration, and improved hygiene helped obliterate infectious disease. That is, they assume that without vaccines, we would be dying by the millions of diseases that were pandemic in the 19th century. But in most cases vaccines were the icing on the cake. The measles deaths graph that anti-vaxers like to use http://www.whale.to/m/measlesdeaths1.html , while it does not actually say what they think it does, makes an important point about the history of public health. Huge progress was made before vaccines delivered the coup de grâce. Even without them, the additional mortality in this day and age would be fairly small.
Antinous / Moderator says:
A lot of pro-vaccine folks underestimate the extent to which sanitation, refrigeration, and improved hygiene helped obliterate infectious disease.
Massively false. Sanitation, etc. has vastly reduced the incidence of many diseases. But not the ones for which we vaccinate. You've conflated foodborne illnesses with airborne illnesses.
Also, "pro-vaccine folks" sounds disturbingly like "round-earth folks".
Boris Bartlog says:
How then do you explain the graph? Measles is not food-borne. But in any case, it appears that reducing the overall incidence of disease results in a virtuous circle, probably because the human immune system has limited resources. Eliminate one pathogen from the environment and suddenly people are more robust against others.
Anyway, measles is far from the only example. Infant tuberculosis mortality (USA) dropped 95% from 1900 to 1960, no vaccine involved. Pertussis death rates likewise dropped about 90% between 1918 and 1948.
In the case of measles and pertussis, it's worth reiterating that further significant gains were made after the introduction of the vaccine. But in both cases, over 90% of the reduction in mortality appears to have been accomplished without any vaccine involvement. Further, there is no special reason to think that the factors that drove down the mortality rates prior to the introduction of the vaccine have been static. In other words, it's unlikely that suddenly abolishing pertussis vaccination (for example) would result in a return to the mortality rates of 1948.
Ito Kagehisa says:
Interesting. I believe the existence of other people is also a clear and present danger to public health. I think I would be far less likely to catch a disease, and my children would be much safer, if all the other people in the world were "Sanitized for Your Protection." By which I mean rounded up and put in special camps where your filthy germs can't terrorize my precious darlings.
It's the only Scientific course of action, so if you don't agree, you're just promoting woo.
Note to the irony impaired: The above is a rhetorical technique called "extension" not an actual call to action. Anti-anti-vaxers have a tendency to facism that needs to be highlighted in this sort of discussion.
wysinwyg says:
Anti-anti-vaxers have a tendency to facism that needs to be highlighted in this sort of discussion.
Frustration and hyperbole are even more highly correlated than organic food sales and autism. If you've ever tried to convince an anti-vaccination person of some very basic facts you can understand the frustration.
And you clearly understand the concept of sarcasm so I'm really not sure why you're throwing "fascism" around. Is it your experience that accusing people of "fascism" makes for a calmer and more enlightening discussion?
Is your argument based merely on profound ignorance, or is it the bad faith indicated by your link to whale.to? For example, someone that knew what they were talking about would be aware that the introduction of antibiotics effective against tuberculosis in the early 50s drastically reduced death rates from that disease. Likewise, the availability of effective antibiotics and improved supportive care reduced the death rates from diseases like pertussis and measles without having much of any effect on their incidence. Plenty of children who would have died in earlier years ended up permanently disabled instead (one of my great-aunts among them).
Boris is conflating mortality with morbidity.
Ross says:
"You cannot reason someone out of a position they were not reasoned into.
James Kimbell says:
I don't know about that. I've been "reasoned out of" plenty of positions, when someone showed me facts and good arguments. And a lot of those times, my initial position was a default, an idea from instinct/culture/something other than reason.
And if that could happen to me, it would be arrogant for me to think that it couldn't happen to other people.
wysinwyg says:
But would it be arrogant for you to think that there are some people for whom it could not happen? Of course not; there are seven billion people in the world — it would be a bizarre statistical anomaly if they all turned out to be as reasonable as you are.
No problem is helped by pretending all human beings are rational. Let's be realistic, here. Some people simply don't choose what they believe on the basis of facts and good arguments. It would be silly of me to think otherwise.
James Kimbell says:
Yeah, you meet someone, you start a running estimation of their reasonableness, and it goes up and down with each new piece of evidence. They repeat bunkum? Not a good sign. They learn something new and change their mind? Great sign.
I like starting that estimation pretty high, even though it's wrong most of the time, just because I think it stops me from underestimating people and missing opportunities. And it helps me keep a better attitude. But I know what you mean.
zero says:
Possible correlation: since the figures are for the diagnosis of autism, rather than the occurrence, would it not be reasonable to suppose that an increased awareness of the condition coincided with an awareness in the (supposed) benefits of organic produce? So that what we're actually plotting here is an 'enlightenment' curve. Just a thought.
SedanChair says:
Yuppies: the hidden factor
C W says:
Well, I'm not sure about "enlightenment", but people who can afford organic fruit are going to be more likely to afford the psychological care.
Bingo, Zero! There is little if any evidence for a real increase in autism. The increase is in diagnoses, which is related to several known factors, including better ascertainment, broader diagnostic criteria, increased social awareness, and increase in services.
Preston Sturges says:
There's a web site that will take your graph and match perfectly to another data set, like Indonesian earthquakes of the 21st century and 19th century herring catches.
knappa says:
Sounds fun, do you have a link?
WinstonSmith2012 says:
Correlation does not imply causation.
zieroh says:
WinstonSmith2012 says:
No, I didn't miss the point of the column, I simply linked directly to an explanation.
austinhamman says:
Tyrone Smith says:
This attempt to show that correlation does not equal causation will confuse idiots into thinking hippie food causes autism. His point will not be made.
dutchs says:
There may be a connection.
I suspect some (not all!) autism may be the product of the way we rear children to expect constant praise, freedom from frustration, and instant gratification. One aspect of this over-protectiveness is obsession with health risks, such as vaccination and food. Vaccination doesn't cause autism. But fretful parents who fear vaccination just might.
Boris Bartlog says:
So your personal hobbyhorse somehow is suspect in autism? Personally I think you need to familiarize yourself with the etiology of autism before starting down this road. At least then your handwaving bullshit might be more elegant.
Are the hobby horses genetically modified?
Oh God, are they fed organic food?
Antinous / Moderator says:
Are you French by any chance? Because the rest of the developed world acknowledges that autism has a neurological basis, not a psychological one.
Sue Belzer says:
I'm pretty sure that, in order to properly diagnose autism, the child has to show symptoms before two years of age. That's actually pretty early, developmentally speaking, for things like "constant praise, freedom from frustration, and instant gratification" to have much effect on behavior. Self-esteem (which could be damaged by anything that could be called "constant praise"), the ability to handle frustration (whether prevented or encouraged), and the ability to delay gratification are all skills that develop much later than two years of age. According to my pediatrician (who I think is very aware of autism research results), has said that, almost always, she has suspicions of autism as early as 9 months (also, corresponding confidence about its absence).
All that to say that there is a high degree of certainty that parenting styles do not "cause" autism. However, there is a high degree of certainty that your attitude indicates you might be a jac…
C W says:
"I suspect some (not all!) autism may be the product of the way we rear children to expect constant praise, freedom from frustration, and instant gratification"
I suspect you have no clue what autism is.
Back in the real world, actual doctors have determined that the symptoms of autism can be detected as early as six weeks of age. So no, your personal hobbyhorse has nothing at all to do with it.
zotlerg says:
Perhaps we should look closely at what the mother consumed during the pregnancy. It would be far more useful, although difficult to collect truthful results.
Roy Trumbull says:
Long ago in Astounding Science Fiction there was an article "The Great Tomato Conspiracy", Everything bad correlated with the consumption of or proximity to tomatoes. Criminals locked up in penitentiaries had eaten tomatoes. Teen age delinquents had eaten tomatoes. A very good send-up of sloppy reasoning.
Charles Boyer says:
That was very good, I remember it. Another good one was Richard Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science" concept that he illustrated in a commencement speech at Cal Tech — it can be read here:
used2bslim says:
I don't have strong feelings one way or the other but it seems to me if vaccinations work and you get vaccinated you would not have to worry about those that choose not to get vaccinated. BTW I was in the military and got vaccinated for everything under the sun and still got sick, even conntracted hepatitis which I had been vaccinated. My point, who cares if you don't want to get a shot, on the other hand children are a different story. The CDC should be doing more testing and I do believe there is danger when giving many vaccinations to a child all at once. Just saying…
Boris Bartlog says:
That's not how vaccines work. A better model (but I am still simplifying) would be that being vaccinated might reduce your chance of developing the disease (if exposed) from 70% to 10%. In such a case, a population of vaccinated people would, while not utterly immune to the disease, make it impossible for it to spread to any significant degree. It would always tend to fizzle out. Meanwhile it would obviously be rather easy for it to spread like wildfire in an entirely unvaccinated population. The CDC has complex models that suggest a threshold percentage of vaccinated people which establishes this herd immunity. It varies from case to case, because different vaccines have different levels of effectiveness.
Ito Kagehisa says:
Hey, that was really good. It's very rare to see a cogent BB post that uses the phrase "herd immunity" in any context whatsoever.
C W says:
"it seems to me if vaccinations work and you get vaccinated you would not have to worry about those that choose not to get vaccinated."
Not that I expect you to follow up on your guesses.
WMC says:
My sister's cousin-in-law's friend gave her two-year-old an organic banana. Some time after that, the kid had a temperature and seemed irritable. Some time after that, the kid was diagnosed with autism. QED.
kairos says:
I'd just like to bounce through and point out that this long, populous comment thread started with numerous people inexplicably acting as if there were actually two real/legitimate sides to a "debate" over vaccination, and tapered to a close with a clear supernatural miracle: a howler monkey with a typewriter, while getting repeatedly beaten over the head, accidentally produced a grammatically correct series of English words that, were this random howler monkey an intentional being, would express an (alleged) belief that autistic traits can have something to do with being a spoiled child. Fortunately, no such comment was actually made by a functioning human mind, so we don't have to abandon 'autistic' as a word suddenly and summarily stripped of all meaning.
Protip: those of you who are capable of processing basic communicated ideas, and ergo are presumably here to argue against "anti-vaxxers" (personally, I find this usage a shameful insult, purely on principle, to the venerable Greek prefix ἀντι-), seriously just give it up. Neither the stats, nor common experience, nor theory of delusion-based group behavior, support any reasonable expectation that you're doing anything substantial here, other than wasting calories and moments of attention on (albeit eventually/occasionally dangerous) morons, and feeding/exercising your useless-outrage muscles.
Just not worth it. If nothing else, the ongoing collapse of our supply (as a species) of effective antibiotics puts you, your children, and any future children you might have/know at more than enough serious, lately-unprecedented disease risk to make some deranged rabble gnawing at the edges of herd immunity totally inconsequential.
Mentality Design says:
Your verbal effluvia does produce an extraordinary increase in self-confidence and condescending outlook in those that share your bias, that much is granted.
Boris Bartlog says:
So we're wasting our time, but your long comment was a worthwhile use of yours? Gotcha.
C W says:
"Protip: those of you who are capable of processing basic communicated ideas, and ergo are presumably here to argue against "anti-vaxxers" (personally, I find this usage a shameful insult, purely on principle, to the venerable Greek prefix ἀντι-), seriously just give it up"
It's essentially arguing religion with fundamentalist hippies.
King Crimson says:
So wait, DOES organic food cause autism? I was led to believe that it was the vaccines that were responsible. Has anyone thought that maybe vaccines lead to an increase in organic food consumption? What about those water fluoridation nuts? As if our government would continue to put fluoride in the water if it makes us dumb…mer…
blagos says:
Actually, there is a third factor that causes both. The idiots that pay more money for organic food with no proven benefits are the same people who refuse to immunize their kids. The number of these people is increasing.
TheOven says:
Nice troll hat.
LintMan says:
Well, there probably is some correlation between Autism an dorganic food sales. There's a true-story book and TV movie called "Son Rise" about a family with a seemingly-autistic son who, IIRC, dramatically changed their diet and lifestyles (ie: natural, organic foods only, no tv, etc) and saw their son go from "unreachable" to "normal" (again, IIRC).
Today's science doesn't really blame things like food additives for autism, but when you're a parent of an autistic child and searching for answers, it's certainly one more thing to try.
Craig A. Maxwell says:
I really don't see the point in this at all. Organic food and autism? If anything, organic food improves neurological function.
LintMan says:
No one is saying organic food is bad. The point here is that correlation does not equal causation.
Sometimes people produce trend charts like this with closely matched lines, and then point to the correlation and blame one of the trends for the other. Such as the autism/vaccination correlation mentioned above. Or the "violence in schools/video game sales" correlation that is currently all the rage. Just because two trends have similar curves doesn't mean one is causing the other.
See also this chart implying that global warming is caused by a lack of pirates: http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
Steady on, me hearty… it's all well and good to point out the pitfalls of spurious correlation, but let's not drift into pirate-climatecaust denial (aka piratical revisionism).
That sort of anti-Piratism should be a thing of the dim and unenlightened past: the link between the near-extinction of pirates and the rise in global temperatures is a thing that transcends statistical analysis.
One need only look at what has happened since our brave pirate brethren in Somalia began their careers as modenr privateers: global warming stopped (about 15 years ago), thus enabling us to rejoice at the failure of the 2000 prediction (by David Viner of CRU) that "Children just aren't going to know what snow is" (implying a global absence of snow… and probably of pirates too). That statement was reported in the Independent of March 20th 2000.
Thankfully, UK kiddies have been enjoying abundant snow thanks to the unsung efforts of our Somali chums.
TL;DR: climate models are statistically less robust – and follow more of a "do what's required to get the answer we want" paradigm – than any economic model of which I am aware. Aaargh, me hearties.
Damian O'Connor says:
Interesting debate. Of course there would be a million datasets similar to above, which is an exponential that sees the y-axis quadruple after about 10 observations – either curve is the (1+p/100)^n variety (where p is a compound percentage – around 15% i reckon. So anything that has grown at a compound rate of about 15% over 10 years will have a curve like this. There may be a connection but on random datasets, of which there would be many of this type, the starting point, without a hypothesis, is coincidence.
What you're sneaking up on is the problem of spurious correlation when data are not stationary: that is, when data are integrated of order > 0 (meaning that they have a non-stable mean in sub-samples).
Generally, a phenomenon related to population will, in equilbrium, grow broadly in line with population. (e.g., long-run behaviour of the labour force). Things that grow in line with aggregate expenditure will – again, as a measure of tendency rather than in every observation – grow at "m-n-beta" (the rate of growth of the money supply, less population growth, less technological change). which is the theoretical equilibrium rate of growth of nominal quantities.
If you have two quantities that are both growing exponentially (even at divergent rates), you will always find an affine transformation of one quantity that will generate a large correlation coefficient (and therefore a relatively large coefficient of determination).
If the two series are growing linearly, the transformation is trivial (multiply either series by the ratio of the slopes) and the coefficient of determination will approach unity… it won't actually BE 1 unless both series exhibit (a) zero; or (b) perfectly correlated; noise around their respective linear growth paths.
This is why trained statisticians (and econometricians – of which I am one) test data for stationarity, make sure that regressors are of the same order of integration as the dependent variable (so that the regression has a stable steady state), and if required take differences (or even log differences) of data to reduce the regression to one involving only stationary quantities.
TL;DR: statistics is sufficiently complex that a layman or autodidact is likely to get it wrong in ways that aren't amusing to anybody who finished high school with decent marks in maths.
MrEnergyCzar says:
The graph shows that the more autism is prevalent and diagnosed, people reach for petrochemical free foods. As for vaccinations, I've always wondered why the incidence of Autism is so gender lopsided since both genders equally receive the same vaccinations….
Sue Belzer says:
I don't think it can be said that "the graph shows" that. That's the point of this article, isn't it? And I was unaware that autism is "gender lopsided". (off to do a little research on that…)
MrEnergyCzar says:
You're right, I'm just trying to say it's not actually a negative graph as it was meant to be. Yes, autism is much more prevalent in males…
Autism is diagnosed about 4.5 times more often in boys than in girls.
Sue Belzer says:
Now here's something interesting I found (I'll quote two paragraphs that seemed particularly salient):
In epidemiological research Wing (1981) found that among people with high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome there were as many as fifteen times as many males as females. On the other hand, when she looked at people with learning difficulties as well as autism the ratio of boys to girls was closer to 2:1. This would suggest that, while females are less likely to develop autism, when they do they are more severely impaired.
Attwood (2000), Ehlers and Gillberg (1993) and Wing (1981) have all speculated that many girls with Asperger syndrome are never referred for diagnosis, and so are simply missing from statistics. This might be because the diagnostic criteria for Asperger syndrome are based on the behavioural characteristics of boys, who are often more noticeably "different" or disruptive than girls with the same underlying deficits. Girls with Asperger syndrome may be better at masking their difficulties in order to fit in with their peers, and in general have a more even profile of social skills.
So, as usual, it's "not quite that simple," apparently. Here's the link to that page:
Andreas Beer says:
The real question is: Why do people with autism like organic food so much?
Sheesh… come on Cory – even Americans don't try to regress non-stationary variables against one another, surely?
OLS is efficient and consistent (and hence unbiased – hence BLUE) only when the Gauss-Markov conditions hold, and they will NEVER hold for anything growing geometrically… at the very least there is a problem with autocorrelation, and almost certainly heteroscedasticity.
And as we all know, the coefficient of determination (R^2) is the square of the Pearson correlation coefficient – whichin turn is cov(x,y)/var(x).var(y) (why can't we do LaTeX up in this bitch, yo?); using R^2 as a goodness of fit measure assumes that OLS is BLUE for the problem under consideration.
It is highly unlikely that two I(1) or I(2) series will have stable variances.
Model that shit with ARIMA and the correlation will disappear, I bet.
Sue Belzer says:
gt you is my hero
Fj Flynn says:
This will be a great way to help me explain to patients (as I do everyday) the difference between association and causation.


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Pryor woman's job under the big top.
Down the long hallway of Colonial Terrace Care Center, Minnie Burns rests comfortably in her recliner while taking a breathing treatment.
Just two weeks shy of her 78th birthday, it's hard to imagine that the sweet lady behind the treatment mask used to dangle by her feet from a swinging ladder, but that's exactly what she did.
In her early 20s, Minnie worked for the Hagen Brothers Circus Company.
"I used to ride in the Speck," she said. "That's circus talk for the opening parade."
For five years Minnie and her husband at the time, George Paul, traveled from Hugo to the
Great Lakes and back, working
with the group.
"I rode horses and an occasional elephant during the opening parade," she said.
The couple's entry into circus life began when they befriended former neighbors.
"We had some neighbors who were home for the winter and during that time we got acquainted with them," she said. "We would meet them for coffee and breakfast and spent alot of time with them."
The neighbors were both employees of the Hagen Brothers Circus and before long, George and Minnie were too.
Minnie was one of three women who performed on swinging ladders, dazzling audiences with their costumes and their tricks.
"The ladder had about six rungs and was suspended from the top of the big tent," she explained. Rigging and long ropes held the ladder just out of reach of the girls, who were given a boost to grab the lowest rung.
While the ladder swung, Minnie would perform acrobatic tricks such as grabbing separate rungs and pushing her body out horizontally from the ladder.
"I'd climb to the top rung where there was a loop and I'd put my foot through it," she said. Minnie would place her other foot on a lower rung and let go, hanging by her feet with her hands free. And all the while the ladder swung, thrilling audiences.
"We just did tricks ... something flashy," she said. "Had to be flashy."
Her husband, George, worked as head prop man for the circus.
"He oversaw all of the prop crew and made sure everything was where it was supposed to be and the rigs were hung properly," she said. "He caught someone one night. She was doing her routine on the trapeze rope, I think.
I can't remember. Anyway, one end of the rope slipped, but he caught her."
Minnie never had a close call during her time with the circus, but said she had plenty of spills when she first started practicing at home.
"We were all very careful," she said.
Each family had their own travel trailer or motor home and when they weren't performing, they were traveling to the next location. Though she can't recall how much money she made working for the circus, she does remember that she did earn a little extra for being the "gas girl."
The circus paid for the fuel of all of the cars in the caravan and advance arrangements were usually made to fuel them all.
"I would direct the gas man to all of the vehicles that needed fuel," she said.
When the convoy of circus fun arrived at their destination, the "cook shack" would already be set up and ready.
"They would have coffee and donuts or something ready for everybody," Minnie remembered. "The cook shack was the first one there and the first one to leave."
During mealtimes, the "working people" would sit at one table and the performers at another.
"It wasn't uncomfortable," she said. "It was just an unspoken word that that's the way things were."
Minnie said she, along with all of the other employees, would play multiple roles during the night's performance. One such skit had Minnie in the audience, while the Master of Ceremonies would play his guitar and sing.
"I would heckle him at bit," she said. "I'd holler down at him and say 'Hey, what's going on down there?'"
He would answer by asking the same question of her, then inform her he was about to sing a song. He would chastise her about interrupting his show and the banter would continue until he finally brought her onstage with him and they would both sing.
Minnie said her reason for leaving the circus was simple.
"I had babies," she said with a chuckle. The parents of daughter, Marcella, and later their son, Dan, brought the children along until their son was about two years old.
"The cook or sometimes the laundry girl would watch them in the trailer while I was performing," she said. "I remember that my daughter celebrated her third birthday in the center ring between performances."
A dream birthday for any three-year old, complete with a big top tent and an entire circus on hand for the party.
"She says she remembers that," Minnie said.
The trip back through her circus life brought a tear or two to her eyes. But it was no doubt that as she played the video of her life through her mind, it was indeed the greatest show on earth to Minnie Burns.


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Dear Carolyn: When my grandson was born, I thought it was the greatest thing, and it probably is. However, he is 8 and his parents told him it is OK to call me by my first name. I do not agree. He has, but for a few times, not called me Grandma.
Also, they combined their two last names, my son and daughter-in-law, not hyphenated, as his last name.
I am a very warm person but so hurt that I have lost my closeness to my grandson. It is very hard, and I feel myself distancing my feelings toward him. My son does not feel their way is wrong.
What is in a name or a title that makes it so important?
(Reading letter to spouse for confirmation.)
To be sure Im reading you correctly: You feel distant from your grandson because of these two naming issues, and not because anyone prevents you from seeing this child?
Carolyn: He comes to my home usually on the weekends to visit and spend some time with me. I feel so distant and hurt because of the last-name issue and because he calls me by my first name.
If I agree to call you Grandma, will you stop being so blockheaded about one of the most precious things life has to offer?
That might be the best deal I have for you, because I am unable to comprehend the idea that a name can get in the way of a bond with a grandchild. OK, if an 8-year-old named me Buttface, then Id surely be in your spot, too insulted to invite the child into my heart but youre exhibiting such a low threshold for insult that youre allowing a difference of opinion on tradition to get in the way of giving and receiving love. And its not even the childs opinion, but someone elses.
Their differing values arent rejections of you, or even your values. Theyre merely reflections of time and change and circumstance. So, What is in a name or a title that makes it so important? Your own stubborn self-righteousness.
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2007: Threw at 11 meets during freshman campaign ... posted season-best indoor marks in both the shot put (41'4 1/4") and weight throw (42'2") at the Mid-Con Championship ... registered top marks of 41'10 1/2" in the shot put, 131'11" in the discus throw and 131'6" in the hammer throw during outdoor season ... named to the Mid-Con All-Academic Team ... member of Fall 2007 Horizon League Academic Honor Roll.
Prep: A two-year letterwinner for the Indians ... qualified for finals at league championships in the discus in 2006 ... also lettered in football ... a member of National Honor Society.
Personal: Chris is the son of Eugene and Anita Stohs ... major is history ... a member of Christ College ... born August 28, 1987 ... brother Matt competed for the Crusaders from 2002-2006.
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The city took another step toward starting a $7 million project to improve McDonald Lane on Tuesday.
The New Albany Redevelopment Commission approved a $549,000 contract with Bernardin, Lochmueller & Associates for right-of-way services for the project.
The commission also OK'd a $931,000 property acquisition contract, with construction possibly beginning on McDonald Lane by May of 2015.
"It will take a year to acquire the property, approximately 90 parcels," said David Duggins, director of redevelopment and economic development for the city.
Once the properties have been purchased, the construction design will be completed. The federal aid project requires only a 20 percent local funding match, and Duggins said the city's share for the entire project should be no more than $1.5 million.
The city's cost for the contracts approved on Tuesday is $296,000.
A public meeting was held last year on the project, which would stretch from Grant Line Road to Charlestown Road.
"It was a very positive hearing," said John Rosenbarger, director of public facilities projects for the city.
Initial plans call for two roundabouts to be added at the McDonald Lane intersections at Hickoryvale Drive and Oxford Drive.
There's also plans for sidewalk additions, curb installations and drainage upgrades.
The Old Monon Tax Increment Financing district is being used to foot the city's portion of the project. According to city officials, Walmart off Grant Line Road is the biggest taxpayer in the Old Monon district.
Brownfields studies approved
The city continues to draw down a federal pool of money for brownfields studies.
The commission approved aiding two property owners by footing environmental studies that will help test for contaminants on the commercial sites.
The former U-Haul business at 2318 State St. will receive a phase two assessment at a cost of about $23,000.
The property also once included a fuel station, and testing for environmental contaminants on such sites is fairly common, according to city officials.
The former Maytag building at 207 E. Main St. will also receive a phase two study.
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If it is deemed that a second phase is necessary, that portion covers sampling of the site.
If contaminants are found on the property, the city can also help the land owner with forming a cleanup plan.
Environmental cleanups of brownfields sites are typically necessary before such properties can be sold.
The city received about $400,000 last year from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for site assessments and potential brownfields remediation plans.
Rosenbarger said the city still has funds at its disposal and is looking for property owners who may qualify.
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May 29, 2014
Twitter's Senior Vice President of Engineering Steps Down
Twitter 's senior vice president of engineering, Christopher Fry, is stepping down effective Thursday.
Fry will keep an advisory role at Twitter, the company said in a filing with Securities and Exchange commission. No reason was given for the move.
He is the latest executive to depart: product chief Michael Sippey left in January, shortly after Twitter's initial public offering. (Sippey moved into an advisory role, too, he said at the time.) Twitter's general counsel, Alex Macgillivray, left in August 2013.
Alexander Roetter, vice president of engineering whose work included advertising and publishing, is replacing Fry. Previously, he was a software engineer at Google and a founding member of the AdSense team, joining Twitter in 2010. His base salary was increased to $250,000 a year, but his compensation didn't change otherwise, the company said.
Fry was one of two senior employees who filed plans to sell portions of their stake in Twitter after the IPO lockup expired.
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Do you subtract the specific gravity of water which is 1 from the mineral gravity of 5.5 to find the difference in matter? Or, is the answer the same because 1 cm3 of water is the same as 1 cm3 of a mineral?
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