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.
This sentence says it all. Even if the study said the opposite, it still wouldn’t “prove” anything. That’s not how science works.
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.
Far-right people really don’t understand what peer review is…