There’s never been any evidence of anything singularly, conclusively being linked to autism, which is what’s left so much room open for conspiratory nutcases and bored housewives to “do their own research” and come up with their own fantastic fairy magic stories.
It wouldn’t matter WHAT the administration said, people are going to believe what they’re going to believe.
What’s funny though, is the fact that RFK and Trump didn’t explicitly call out vaccines, the go-to anti-science grift everyone is using, made a lot of people on the right really mad. It should make for a clear indicator that the whole thing is a scam and a grift, but unfortunately conservative minds don’t work that way, and it will just make the vaccine-fearful even more fearful.
Rfk was trying to say Trump should get the peace prize for the covid vaccine.
So, despite all of their vax bashing, I think he’s still cooking that scheme and don’t want to pin autism on it right now.
oh, that explains it! I was wondering why the sudden shift in scapegoat
If they had tried to link autism to vaccines, they would have had to show some evidence to support it. They do not have any evidence to support the claim that vaccines cause autism.
But there isn’t evidence linking autism to Tylenol either, right?
There is a correlation between mothers who take tylenol while pregnant and children who develop autism in some studies.
But it could be just as likely that autism is both hereditary and comorbid with other painful diseases like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, mom is also autistic but from a generation that doesn’t get diagnosed, and she’s also in pain and taking tylenol, and her kid gets autism because of genetics and not tylenol.
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An article from last April in JAMA also compared between a no-control cohort and a sibling-control cohort. When a control is there for comparison, the potential correlation goes away meaning it’s just as likely any findings are confounded anyway.
Behind closed doors, they probably are beginning to understand that it would be a public health disaster if they actually removed access to vaccines so Tylenol is a more innocuous scapegoat. I always avoided it because problems with alcohol interaction. In reality the culprit is more likely to be heavy pesticide use enabled by gmo roundup resistant crops.
“Canada confirms it WAS the vaccines all along!”
found funny the antivaxx community got offended with Trump for the baseless Tylenol claims
To be fair I don’t think CONCLUSIVE evidence is the bar we need to pass to be careful.
AFAIK paracetamol is proven to be very safe when used as recommended.
Also AFAIK there is ZERO evidence it should cause autism.
This is the vaccine bullshit all over again, false claims of crazy side-effects without any evidence, but only anecdotal bullshit, that if true research would have detected decades ago.
It’s like claiming water causes traffic accidents: “Hey my son drank a cup of water, and the next day he died in a traffic accident!”
Damned it’s tiresome to have to hear and see those morons get so much space in media by other morons all the time.I’m not blaming this article, that’s an OK article, but the reason this article exist is the above.
That is the problem. The language of science versus the understanding of the language is science by the wilfully ignorant and shockingly stupid.
“There’s is no conclusive evidence…”
“So there is evidence!”
The most extensive study of acetaminophen use by pregnant women following 2.4 million women showed NO EVIDENCE OF ANY LINK BETWEEN TYLENOL/PARACETAMOL USE AND AUTISM.
The science/medical community needs to dumb it down for the dumbth.
It’s pretty stupid to call it conclusive evidence, since evidence in science very rarely is conclusive. In medicine it’s generally statistic, and there are always a chance if you test 5 million people, that the 5 million and 1 will be different.
So it’s not about average people being unable to understand scientific terms in this case, but it’s simply not a reasonable statement by any normal use of the language. Of course there isn’t conclusive evidence, because that’s an insane bar.
While the effort is appreciated. This news came from a failed gameshow host who ran 2 different casinos into the ground and a lean addict who swims in sewage for fun. 2nd guy also has a worm in his brain.
Like i said. Appreciated, but unnecessary. The people who believe those two are the same people who were shitting out their intestinal lining a few years ago to “own the libs” while they died in droves because vaccines are the mark of Satan or something.
I’m so sick of this misinformation circulating about RFK having a worm in his brain. He had a worm in his brain. It died because RFK’s thoughts are that toxic.
Fake news. He is the worm now.
It’s why he talks like that.
Again the problem is how this is written … “no conclusive evidence” will be read as “There is a small sliver of evidence pointing towards the general direction of…”
It should say “There is no evidence of… at all”.
We somehow need to convince these people that any and all medical treatment will give you autism or turn you trans or something.
But what about Paracetemol?
/s - its the same thing, and absolutely motherfuck the American pharmaceutical industry for giving it another name and confusing everyone.
Had to Google because I’ve wondered why but never actually looked into it, and so in case anyone else also hasn’t:
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1852): This French chemist is sometimes credited with being the first to synthesize the compound, though this is debated.
Harmon Northrop Morse (1878): Morse, an American chemist, is also cited for first preparing the compound. However, the discovery was not pursued for medicinal purposes at the time.
I haven’t gone further than that because I’m going to be late to work, really pushing the limit today, but something I’m definitely interested in looking into.
Regardless, the drug name is N-acetyl-para-aminophenol, and so both Names™ are in there. Stupid! Although paracetamol is kinda stretching it.
Let’s just call it N-tylol. Jesus that’s how they came up with Tylenol.
Paracetamol is safe. It’s that acetaminophen that you have to avoid! /s
