A 2014 study in Bosnia and Herzegovina sent seven different…

A 2014 study in Bosnia and Herzegovina sent seven different types of letters to previous blood donors asking them to donate blood again. All seven were equally effective. The research showed that 63% of blood donors just need a simple reminder to make an appointment. The blood donors were already altruistic, they didn’t need clever persuasion to donate again.

Between 1988 and 2017, approximately 18,000 vaccine injury c…

Between 1988 and 2017, approximately 18,000 vaccine injury claims were filed into the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Approximately 11,000 were dismissed. The rest, about 5,500 patients received compensation. Divided over 29 years, that works out to around 200 cases per year. In the United States that translates as one vaccine injury per million doses of vaccine each year. How are those odds? Which is more likely: sustaining a vaccine injury or being struck by lightning?

In 2001, claims of autism from the MMR vaccine or from thime…

In 2001, claims of autism from the MMR vaccine or from thimerosal were filed into the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. A special Omnibus Autism Program was created a year later to address those claims. From 2002 to 2012, 5,600 autism cases were filed, 800 were dismissed, with 4,800 pending. The CDC estimates there are one million children in the United States with autism. If all those kids were compensated through the program, how much would that cost?