Posted by europerep on September 23, 2015, at 14:53:05
In reply to Re: Young people on SSRI's commit more crimes?, posted by SLS on September 23, 2015, at 14:23:40
> Of course, just because something is conceivable doesn't make it true.
Exactly, that's what I was trying to get at with my example about the shape of the Earth.
The difference is of course that questions about the shape of the Earth came up when people noticed "anomalies" that shouldn't be observable if the Earth was indeed flat. The supposed anomalies in the case of vaccinations stem, as far as I know, from a later-retracted paper by a fraudulent scientist, and the claims have now been thoroughly discredited. So to me it doesn't really make sense to think about the possible causes of a phenomenon that is not observed in reality.
If one does not believe this, I really see no other option than to study the subject matter, become an expert and then contribute to the scientific debate. And in this case, this wouldn't even be about settling the "correlation vs causation" question, it would require finding even just an association between MMR vaccines and autism in the first place.
Until one does that, anything one has to say on the matter is nothing more than the equivalent of "well, the Earth looks flat to me".
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