The United States government will identify the cause of autism by September this year, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday.
“At your direction, we are going to know by September. We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,” Kennedy said at a meeting of President Donald Trump’s cabinet.
Yup, the verdict was in before the study started.
I think you misunderstood my comment. Science doesn’t “prove” things, math does. In science you acquire evidence that either supports a hypothesis or doesn’t.
Technically, science can “disprove” things, but never “prove”.
Yes this is a pedantic difference, but it’s very important when literally discussing the interpretation of a scientific study.
So what I was saying is that even if the study RFK cited was supportive of vaccines not causing autism, it would still be wrong to say that it “proves” that.
Wtf are you on? If there is no correlation between vaccines and autism at a statically significant level then that means there is no association between vaccines and autism. These studies have already been done. Go fuck yourself with prove and disprove you pedantic wanker.
I never disagreed with that or stated the opposite. I know vaccines do not cause autism, and I’ve had to scientifically explain that fact to many people in my personal life.
But I think your reading comprehension needs serious improvement. You clearly do not understand how the scientific method works.
Science does not prove things. This is a fundamental aspect of how science is done.
You come up with a hypothesis.
Design an experiment to test that
Based on the results:
Good prediction: the hypothesis got something right
Bad prediction: the hypothesis is wrong, go back to the drawing board
You can disprove a hypothesis with an experiment/study, but you cannot do the opposite. The best you can do is validate that the hypothesis got something right. From there you need to refine the theory to make more and more accurate predictions until something breaks. That’s literally how science works.
Go read a Science Basics for Dummies book and then come talk to me, otherwise stay in your lane.
You are a dumbshit