Stop saying that the link between autism and vaccines is "unproven".

[jeremymallin@autistics.life]

Stop saying that the link between autism and vaccines is "unproven". It is discredited. It is disproven. Disproven and unproven are not the same thing.

#WordsMatter #Journalism

[patrascan@ohai.social]

@JeremyMallin because there are many neurodivergent people in medicine, it' not unlikely that autism caused vaccines.

[jeremymallin@autistics.life]

@patrascan
I've heard that said before. I like it.

[verymetalsite@mastodon.social]

@JeremyMallin

#historymatters

I do so agree, disproven is not the same as unproven. Vaccines are the reason modern living with its airtravel has not come to a grinding halt *yet*.

Hans Asperger was in cahoots with the nazis and sent kids who did not respond to his likeness to his tests to euthanasia clinics. No science there, just sadism.

Best not promote this 'illness' which is actually normal healthy behaviour to being surrounded by nazis too much.

[patrascan@ohai.social]

@JeremyMallin it sure makes more sense than vice versa. That Wakefield guy who started this falsehood deserves to burn in hell.

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@JeremyMallin Disproven. Also known colloquially as "proven to be horseshit".

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@JeremyMallin even worse that disproven it was an actual lie with falsified test and the culprit lost his right to even do anything health related.

[frances_larina@sfba.social]

@JeremyMallin

It has been proven false.

[cap_ybarra@beige.party]

@JeremyMallin the people saying "unproven" are doing so with full knowledge of their word-weaseling

[irmgard@sueden.social]

@JeremyMallin Correct!

[vronimus_ironimus@chaos.social]

@JeremyMallin I know I'm not a scientific study, but I'm autistic and my parents are antivaxers

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@JeremyMallin what about a link between CO² build-up and autism?

[mr_gharice@mastodon.social]

@JeremyMallin
+1. In the empirical sciences, nothing is proven. A hypothesis can only be falsified. If it fails to falsify, it becomes a theory. But a theory is never proven. And the link between autism and vaccines is falsified ie, not relevant for science.

[azurekingfisher@mastodon.art]

@JeremyMallin yes to all of this and stop implying autism is a bad thing in the first place.

[oschonrock@mastodon.social]

@JeremyMallin

Actually I don't think "disproven" is the scientifically correct word either.

The formally correct statement is... "There is no (statistically significant) evidence for a link"