In which I don’t even have to lift two fingers, just one

Once in a while, my friend sends me over something that he’d like me to address because he’s too busy with stuff. It’s kind of like raising the bat signal or something like that. His latest alert was this picture on Instagram:

Screen Shot 2013-11-14 at 3.37.40 PM

The anti-vaccine crowd is everywhere, I swear. Anyway, to refute this little bit of misinformation, I didn’t even have to lift two fingers, just the one to find someone refuting it.

And I found that it was brilliantly refuted in this blog post. Spoiler alert: It’s all about the study design. So go read it.

Batman out!