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Quotes from There's no proof the Oxford vaccine causes blood clots — David Spiegelhalter

born 1953 England

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We need to think slow instead of fast, and resist drawing causal links between events where none may exist.

There's no proof the Oxford vaccine causes blood clots (2021)

It’s a common human tendency to attribute a causal effect between different events, even when there isn’t one present...

There's no proof the Oxford vaccine causes blood clots (2021)

So far, these vaccines have shown themselves to be extraordinarily safe.

There's no proof the Oxford vaccine causes blood clots (2021)

The most serious problem is anaphylactic reactions, and the advice is not to inject anyone with a previous history of allergic reactions to either a prior [vaccine] dose... or its ingredients.

There's no proof the Oxford vaccine causes blood clots (2021)

[S]omeone is diagnosed with autism after receiving the MMR vaccine, so people assume a causal connection – even when there isn’t one.

There's no proof the Oxford vaccine causes blood clots (2021)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Spiegelhalter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.