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by farts_mckensy 621 days ago
Not proven ≠ Wrong

It's true, a direct link hasn't been proven, and I was debating even mentioning that. Obviously that specific tendency alone isn't indicative of a homicidal individual. But I would speculate that it has something to do with dysfunction/dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system.

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Yes, but that is the absence of evidence, commonly called on when the science hasn't been done.

If a theory/hypothesis remains not proven once the science has been repeatedly done in numerous attempts to prove it, very often it does mean it is wrong.

A mere two studies are cited in the Wikipedia quote you supplied as evidence of the supposed wrongness of the hypothesis.
Wikipedia is not often referenced in literature reviews as an exhaustive source of relevant studies.