In one case, a pediatrician in Pennsylvania was getting ready to inoculate a little girl with a vaccine when she suddenly went into violent seizures. Had that pediatrician been working just a little faster, he would have injected that vaccine first. In that case, imagine if the mother had been looking on as her apparently perfectly healthy daughter was injected and then suddenly went into seizures. It would certainly have been understandable—from an emotional standpoint—if that mother was convinced the vaccine caused her daughter’s seizures. Only the accident of timing prevented that particular fallacy in this case. (source)
Steven Byrnes comments on Adele Lopez’s Shortform