Ordinarily I would have probably have a hard time deciding which case study did the most harm however, clearly after reading each case in my mind there was only one choice.
Stanford Prison Study:
While the Stanford prison study is shocking and the treatment of the young men appalling, this case study only had 24 participants and only touched a handful of people. While I do believe there is evidence that some of the participants had some lasting affects, in my mind the MMR study was clearly the study that lead to the most harm.
MMR Study:
The study itself was based on only 12 children (The Lancet, Wakefield, et al., 1998, p.637-641). How can you begin to make any assumptions based on only 12 children?
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What the Scientists did:
According to The Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Sathyanarayana, & Andrade (2011, p.95-96), the entire case study was nothing but a fraud, the main researcher, A. Wakefield was paid by some lawyers to manipulate the data to obtain the results that showed a correlation between the MMR vaccine and autism, for the purposes of a lawsuit that was being filed.
Lawyers wanted the data to show that the children in the study were perfectly normal before vaccination and developed signs of autism after being vaccinated for MMR. None of this was true and researchers manipulated data to obtain the desired results.
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(Pazienza, The Daily Banter, 2014)
However, I think she has already done considerable damage, and it will be hard for her to convince people to vaccinate their children. Also her statements seem to read as though she 's trying to say she didn 't tell anyone to not vaccinate their kids. She is not saying it 's perfectly safe to vaccinate your children. Those are different meanings.
The media needs to do more reporting that vaccines are safe. I also think that the CDC should take to social media such as Facebook to warn people of the dangers of not vaccinating their children. Clearly it will take years to undo the damage. It might take a great deal of studies and scientific data to undo the damage and perhaps it shall never be completely undone.
Conclusion:
Obviously, this fraudulent study did a great amount of harm, many children continue to remain un-vaccinated from a large variety of diseases, by well meaning parents. Simply due to the fact these parents believe they are protecting their child from a risk of developing
Stanford Prison Study:
While the Stanford prison study is shocking and the treatment of the young men appalling, this case study only had 24 participants and only touched a handful of people. While I do believe there is evidence that some of the participants had some lasting affects, in my mind the MMR study was clearly the study that lead to the most harm.
MMR Study:
The study itself was based on only 12 children (The Lancet, Wakefield, et al., 1998, p.637-641). How can you begin to make any assumptions based on only 12 children?
While perhaps, in a community of twenty, …show more content…
What the Scientists did:
According to The Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Sathyanarayana, & Andrade (2011, p.95-96), the entire case study was nothing but a fraud, the main researcher, A. Wakefield was paid by some lawyers to manipulate the data to obtain the results that showed a correlation between the MMR vaccine and autism, for the purposes of a lawsuit that was being filed.
Lawyers wanted the data to show that the children in the study were perfectly normal before vaccination and developed signs of autism after being vaccinated for MMR. None of this was true and researchers manipulated data to obtain the desired results.
What the Scientists should have …show more content…
(Pazienza, The Daily Banter, 2014)
However, I think she has already done considerable damage, and it will be hard for her to convince people to vaccinate their children. Also her statements seem to read as though she 's trying to say she didn 't tell anyone to not vaccinate their kids. She is not saying it 's perfectly safe to vaccinate your children. Those are different meanings.
The media needs to do more reporting that vaccines are safe. I also think that the CDC should take to social media such as Facebook to warn people of the dangers of not vaccinating their children. Clearly it will take years to undo the damage. It might take a great deal of studies and scientific data to undo the damage and perhaps it shall never be completely undone.
Conclusion:
Obviously, this fraudulent study did a great amount of harm, many children continue to remain un-vaccinated from a large variety of diseases, by well meaning parents. Simply due to the fact these parents believe they are protecting their child from a risk of developing