Comments on: H1N1 vaccine shortage fabricated to create hysteria, boost demand? http://dprogram.net/2009/11/05/h1n1-vaccine-shortage-fabricated-to-create-hysteria-boost-demand/ Countering Propaganda Fri, 25 May 2012 06:45:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shaay http://dprogram.net/2009/11/05/h1n1-vaccine-shortage-fabricated-to-create-hysteria-boost-demand/#comment-24132 Shaay Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:17:27 +0000 http://dprogram.net/?p=23869#comment-24132 While your point is reasonable - decreasing availability has long been known to increase demand in a free market (see Adam Smith) - the study you reference in the opening of this article appears to be poorly designed. You state that a participant "now sees a dwindling supply of cookies in the cookie jar." While that is true, the "dwindling supply" is coupled to a social interaction that may be giving the participant permission to have a cookie in this social context. Answering survey questions isn't the type of interaction most of us have daily. Participants may not be sure of the etiquette regarding cookies - until another person takes one and eats it. It's a basic "monkey see, monkey do" response! Unless the study is redesigned to eliminate this interference, I don't believe we can draw conclusions from it regarding the effect of availability on demand. However, the other conclusion that this study suggests, that people are more comfortable doing what they see others do, also applies to vaccines. If there is a shortage, caused by the numbers of people receiving vaccines, and I am not hearing about adverse affects....then getting the vaccine must be a good idea, right? I appreciate that your aim is to counter propaganda from big Pharma. Citing well designed studies and applying careful critical thinking to those you cite is probably going to help. While your point is reasonable – decreasing availability has long been known to increase demand in a free market (see Adam Smith) – the study you reference in the opening of this article appears to be poorly designed. You state that a participant “now sees a dwindling supply of cookies in the cookie jar.” While that is true, the “dwindling supply” is coupled to a social interaction that may be giving the participant permission to have a cookie in this social context.

Answering survey questions isn’t the type of interaction most of us have daily. Participants may not be sure of the etiquette regarding cookies – until another person takes one and eats it. It’s a basic “monkey see, monkey do” response! Unless the study is redesigned to eliminate this interference, I don’t believe we can draw conclusions from it regarding the effect of availability on demand.

However, the other conclusion that this study suggests, that people are more comfortable doing what they see others do, also applies to vaccines. If there is a shortage, caused by the numbers of people receiving vaccines, and I am not hearing about adverse affects….then getting the vaccine must be a good idea, right?

I appreciate that your aim is to counter propaganda from big Pharma. Citing well designed studies and applying careful critical thinking to those you cite is probably going to help.

]]> By: charles buchanan 111 http://dprogram.net/2009/11/05/h1n1-vaccine-shortage-fabricated-to-create-hysteria-boost-demand/#comment-24131 charles buchanan 111 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:24:35 +0000 http://dprogram.net/?p=23869#comment-24131 this is exactly what they are doing. do not get the shot...better yet,do not let the pregnant women or your children get the shot. the greater agennda is to make sterile and creat abortions into the next generation. you should ask yourself. DO i want to be a grandparent? this is exactly what they are doing. do not get the shot…better yet,do not let the pregnant women or your children get the shot. the greater agennda is to make sterile and creat abortions into the next generation.
you should ask yourself. DO i want to be a grandparent?

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