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Scientific skepticism or rational skepticism, sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry, is a position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.

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Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong (theunbiasedscipod.substack.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz to c/skeptic@lemmy.world

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A good dissection of bullshit "science" about vaccines - this dissection also highlights good general points to think about when applying critical thinking to any such out of left field "scientific" claims on the internet or those blathering dolts on TV news segments.

https://theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-failure-why-this-latest

Dig into things before promoting them on social media.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ouch, really said after, not during pregnancy.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but the vaccines obviously caused her son's problems! It's hard to know if he even is autistic or if that was just part of her whole bullshit grift. She made a lot of money from this.