That’s not debunking. That’s denial of the problem.
Plenty of reasons to reconsider this stupid extreme ban, And this is clearly weighing the limited evidence of suicide higher than the lack of evidence of harm.
IE, it’s a bit hypocritical to ban something with no real evidence of harm. Simply because it has not been proven to be safe, And then argure the limited evidence of suicides, is a reason to continue.
But words matter. So no it is not a denial. It is saying the difference between pre ban suicides and post ban suicides is statistically irrelevant. IE the changes are not usable as evidence. (yet as honestly the ban is far too recent for any of this data to be of value)
galmuth@feddit.uk 3 months ago
That’s not denial, it’s looking at the evidence.
mecfs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
More like suggesting there is no reliable evidence.
As the law of funding bias says, only research that corroborates powerful interests will get the funding necessary to create a reliable body of evidence.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_bias