Rush Limbaugh Is Playing The Blame Game
Posted by Clark Venable on 10/17/2004
Michelle Malkin has a quick note on the flu vaccine shortage, and points to a Rush Limbaugh piece: Clintons Ruined Vaccine Industry. Rush basically argues that it's all Hillary's fault because of her role in the Government Vaccine Buying Program. This is a classic case of hindsight bias; the tendency of people with outcome knowledge to exaggerate the extent to which they would have predicted the event beforehand. Yes, I'm sticking up for Hillary here. It IS a powerful example of why the approach taken by the vaccine buying program is flawed. What we should be doing is asking ourselves whether we need to make changes vis-a-vis our other vaccine programs.
The October 14, 2004 Wall Street Journal editorial 'Infectious Politics' (reproduced here) has some disturbing statistics:
- Hib1 3
- Influenza 2
- Hepatitis A 2
- Hepatitis B 2
- DTaP2 2
- Measles, mumps, rubella 1
- Tetanus 1
- Tetanus-diphtheria 1
- Polio 1
- Chickenpox 1
- Pneumococcal conjugate (children) 1
- Pneumococcal polysaccharide (adults) 1
- Meningococcal 1
and asks the question:
Let's stop playing the blame game and figure out how to improve our vaccine production system. To again quote the WSJ piece:
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