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Jean Tobin's avatar

At what point does a scientific critique become literary genius? HAAAA!!!!

I'm starting a collection:

Invoking biological plausibility in the absence of empirical control is rhetorical scaffolding, not evidence.

The study lacks a pre-specified directed acyclic graph (DAG), leaving readers unable to distinguish between confounding control and causal mutilation.

The exposure variable becomes a probabilistic smudge, incapable of carrying causal information.

Invoking biological plausibility in the absence of empirical control is rhetorical scaffolding, not evidence.

The bridge from PCR to autism is not a chain of evidence—it is a telephone line transmitting static.

Warrior Mom's avatar

can I paraphrase you and just say: they made the shit up? ;) ;)

Warrior Mom's avatar

all I gotta say is: what in the actual F***?

that someone actually set out to 'study' something so absurd on its face, is only topped that another somebody funded it.