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Mirzam 
My sister was born in the early seventies, and she had ear tubes, she had bad reflux as a baby and a perpetual runny nose. She also had a very severe reation to the first DPT vaccine that so concerned my mother and her doctor that she never received another vaccine until she was an adult (she wasn't immune to Rubella, still isn't despite having had the vaccination twice).
We can all type up our ancedotes and if we put them all together we will have data.
Sure...data that's gathered in an uncontrolled manner that can't be measured statistically. I don't know who came up with that quote, but just because you call pieces of information grouped together "data," it doesn't mean it's useful for anything.
I'm 45, and I knew kids with asthma (the family next door had it bad...all 4 kids, and now some of their kids have it, too). I knew kids with tubes. I knew kids with ear infections. I knew kids with eczema.
My kids are fully vaxed and neither one has had an ear infection in their lives.
It is a mystery.
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