Fill it out so we continue to rely on correlation equals causation!

Malcolm Roberts answering the question once and for all: No, you do not need to be intelligent to be a senator.

Is that how you shrunk Malcolm?

One time I saw a train timetable and then I felt the autism suddenly overtake me. Never been the same since.

Roberts, if you had any actual understanding of scientific evidence, you would know that this is NOT evidence.

So, you’ve put on the double layer of tinfoil with this one Senator Malcolm Roberts

For a bloke who claims to believe in empirical evidence, Senator Malcolm Roberts, this just looks like you’re actually more interested in anecdotal evidence gathered from the most unscientific questions possible, which means the “study” will be about as much use as a mermaid in a chorus line.

Malcolm continues his crusade against science and education...

Tax payer dollars: Senator Malcolm Roberts receives a base federal parliamentary salary of approximately $239,270 per year, plus additional allowances and office expenses managed through the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA). [1]

Thanks for promoting this Senator Malcolm Roberts . I'm glad that some people are finally having their voices heard.

"sudden onset autism" doesn't exist because autism is something that you're born with not something that can be developed or aquired. Autism or ASD is a spectrum as stated in the name meaning symptoms can just start to show when the child progresses through school if they're on the higher independence part of the spectrum, and they can appear to show suddenly, however autism has been there since birth it's just the symptoms weren't triggered until a particular point in their development because it effects everyone differently at different rates. This has nothing to do with supporting autism and everything to do with pushing an agenda

childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Simpsonwood-Documents.pdf. They knew in 2000 that vaccines, especially, the Hep B caused autism and they covered it up. 🙏

exposure to certain medications (such as valproate) certain antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, beta-blockers and statins are linked as contributing risk factors.

Looks like you're trying to become Australia's own RFK Jr, senator. He has brain worms, what's your excuse?

Does the following describe you, Senator Malcolm Roberts or Pauline Hanson better? Conspiracy theories didn’t proliferate because of social media algorithms. Rather, they stem from a deep-seated overconfidence. For years, experts blamed social media echoes and emotional voids—like narcissism or a need to feel unique—for the rapid spread of fringe conspiracy theories. However, a major study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin reveals a much simpler culprit: a distinct cognitive mindset characterized by deep-seated, dispositional overconfidence. Led by researchers at Cornell University, the study examined over 4,000 U.S. adults and found that conspiracy believers consistently overrate their own cognitive abilities, such as numeracy and perception, while possessing a massive blind spot regarding their actual performance. Even more striking is how these individuals misread public opinion. The research revealed that while the fringe conspiracies they supported were only backed by a true majority 12% of the time, the believers genuinely thought an astounding 93% of the public agreed with them. This massive false consensus effect means that conspiracy theorists are completely unaware of how far out on the fringe their views actually are. Ultimately, this suggests that combating misinformation is not just about correcting facts or policing digital platforms, but about addressing the profound cognitive miscalibration and overconfidence of the believers themselves. source: Pennycook, G., Binnendyk, J., & Rand, D. G. (2025). Overconfidently Conspiratorial: Conspiracy Believers are Dispositionally Overconfident and Massively Overestimate How Much Others Agree With Them. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Once again, Senator Malcolm Roberts is attempting to cast doubt on research involving more than 1.2 million children by promoting a self-selected internet survey involving, being generous, fewer than a thousand respondents. That 2014 meta-analysis combined five cohort studies covering 1,256,407 children, plus five case-control studies covering another 9,920, and found no association between vaccination and autism. Kirsch’s survey is something entirely different. It specifically recruits parents who already believe their child was developing normally and then experienced a sudden change. Kirsch himself describes the results as preliminary, and his recruitment method is an open online survey promoted through audiences already interested in vaccine-autism claims. That can generate anecdotes and hypotheses. It cannot somehow outweigh population-level research involving more than a million children. And yet, somehow, that isn’t even the part of this that disappoints us most. Once again, Senator Roberts is publicly presenting autism through the language of children who were supposedly “normal” until something happened to them. Think about what you’re actually saying to autistic Australians when you repeat that framing. That we’re damaged. That we’re broken. That something happened which took the “normal” child away and left us behind. We are not failed versions of neurotypical people. We are not damaged goods. We are not tragedies waiting for somebody to identify the contaminant responsible for creating us. There is absolutely nothing wrong with researching autism. There is nothing wrong with investigating regression, support needs, genetics, development or environmental factors. Good science should continue doing all of those things. But repeatedly amplifying weak evidence because it points toward the conclusion you already want, while dismissing vastly stronger evidence that doesn’t, isn’t scientific scepticism. It’s fear of where the science leads. And autistic people are the ones who get to sit here, publicly, while an Australian Senator repeatedly talks about us as though our existence represents damage that needs explaining. Senator Roberts, you keep asking people to listen to parents. Perhaps every now and then, you might consider listening to us.

"Sudden onset autism": not a thing. Others have explained why that is. Parents in complete denial that there might be something different about their child until one day when they can deny it no longer and calling it "sudden onset autism": definitely a thing.

This is a terrible survey. It is leading and it already presupposes causation, then looks for correlation afterward.

When the only cooked party let's its conspiracy theorist post on Facebook

Yet another poven fraud and liar. You're a disgrace Roberts. When are you ever going to ask these frauds for their "empirical evidence"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=30W2w02n360&t=237s

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 holy hell of all the dumb ass shit you've posted this has to take the cake of the most ridiculous of them all...... Stop pretending to understand medicine you spineless talentless hack...