Fact Check: Zoho's Sridhar Vembu's Claim on Childhood Vaccines and Autism
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu shared a post on X suggesting a connection between childhood vaccines and rising autism cases in India. However, this claim is False.
The Claim
Sridhar Vembu posted on X implying that childhood vaccinations are linked to an increase in autism cases in India.
"To understand why medicine is so complex, let's make a crude simplifying assumption that there are only 100 biomarkers that are important (in reality there are vastly more). Let's also crudely assume each market is allowed only two values. That gives us 2^100 possibilities, which is about 10^30. That is vastly more than humans that ever lived. And this is with the extremely over-simplified model. We face a practical infinity of possibilities. In reality, no two patients are ever really alike. No statistical model can give you very high confidence on how to treat."
Author's summary: Sridhar Vembu's claim on vaccines and autism is false.