Displaying risks from vaccines and other dangers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is an interesting article from Edzard Ernst on July 16, 2025 titled Yes, vaccination risks are real – but how do they compare with other dangers? In order to show the range from the tiny one in a hundred million for the MMR vaccine to one in 1,100 for drowning (and up to one) we need to use a chart with a logarithmic scale - as is shown above. I had discussed risk in a post on November 12, 2024 titled I am not going to throw out my black plastic spatulas.

 

Also, back on January 13, 2010 I had blogged about How thin is “extremely thin”? and used a table with a powers of ten for comparing thicknesses over a range in centimeters from one to one in ten to the minus eighth power.