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No that's not how it works. If you have a theory, posit it, test it, and peer-review the tests. If you (or someone else) won't do that, you can't just muddle the waters like this. This is how anti-science works.
Them:
They admitted it’s just a theory.
You:
Alas, the only definitive assertion in this comment chain. It has been proven that there is a genetic component to ADHD, not that it is exclusively a genetic disorder.
I also believe ADHD is partially environmental. I have diagnosed with and am treated for it.
It’s not anti-science to believe something that hasn’t been disproven. It is anti-science to believe something that has been disproven (e.g. climate change-denying loons).
You don't just "I have a theory that aliens caused it" and then start spreading it around like the OP i Was responding to did.
By that argument it's not anti-scientific to believe in Gods and Astrology...
Belief in god or astrology is not anti-scientific, it is unscientific.
Anti-scientific is evangelizing that the belief in god or astrology is a replacement for science.