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A comment on What It's Like to Have Severe Lyme Disease. Parent comment

Re:What It's Like to Have Severe Lyme Disease by wnoise on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @12:50AM (#9723893)
> "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" fallacy

It's not a fallacy. Absence of evidence really is evidence of absence. The fallacy version is "absence of proof is proof of absence".

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Re:What It's Like to Have Severe Lyme Disease by pasbesoin on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @01:49AM (#9724028)
Thanks. That is better wording for what I meant.
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