Reply #71: That's either horrendously misleading or an outright lie. [View All]

[Occam Bandage]

If you say that to mean, "absolute proof or disproof of anything in demographic studies is impossible; the best you do is find a repeated lack of any statistical correlation within (say) a 95% confidence interval, but numerous studies have indeed found no correlation whatsoever, each at 95% or 99% confidence," then that is very misleading, because it suggests that the "jury is still out," as it were, on a vaccine-autism link. A brief search turns up links to eight different peer-reviewed studies in the past decade, all of which found no correlation whatsoever between vaccination and autism with at least 95% confidence. The odds of all eight studies being wrong would be (by my rough reckoning), 0.00000000391%. While it is technically correct that it is "not disproven," that's pretty darn close.

If you say that to mean, "the jury is out, who knows, it might very well be the case that vaccines cause autism," you are lying or misinformed.