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

[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"