Thread by @jengleruk

I never knew this about Wallace.

However, from studying the history of science, I did work out that he had been unfairly written out of the history of the elucidation of the theory of evolution.

It always seemed most odd to me, especially since Darwin was certainly open to him… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Hmmm...this sounds vaguely familiar.....

And this sounds rather familiar too:

"there is nothing whatever to show that the increased vaccinations had any effect on the disease, which ran its course and then died out like other epidemics."

And another....

And it continues....

Who'd have thought it?

Several "official" bodies making claims like this, when the actualy statistics available at the time for anyone to ascertain showed the opposite.

Wallace shows here that smallpox mortality rates in the fit and relatively… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Hmmmmm....nothing new under the sun, so it seems.

It's all here - nothing changes:

We have a Simpson's paradox:

(1.) —Infants dying under vaccination age, and who, therefore, have no corresponding class amongt he vaccinated, but among whom the Small-pox mortality is greatest.

A healthy vaccinee effect:

(2.) Children too… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Surely they wouldn't miscategorise vaccination status of those who died from the disease, would they?

I leave you with his closing remarks, echoing loudly and clearly from 150 years ago.

Conclusion from the Evidence.

The result of this brief enquiry may be thus summarized :

(1.) —Vaccination does not diminish Smallpox mortality, as shown by the 45 years of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…