g_pepper comments on Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence - Less Wrong
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So, yes, absence of evidence can convincingly disprove a theory in some cases (although, as ChristianKI points out, Bayesians typically do not assign probabilities of 0 or 1 to any theory).