A respected academic telling me that something or another in data is “suggestive” means something. From a rando pseudoscientist working from the armchair, it means fuck all.
Comment on Health Secretary Kennedy says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
“The causative association . . . between Tylenol given in pregnancy and the perinatal periods is not sufficient to say it definitely causes autism. But it is very suggestive,” Kennedy told reporters, citing animal, blood and observational studies.
Was what he actually said, the headline is click bait.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
This is just I don’t want to get sued speak, no?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Pretty much.
But saying anything “definitely” in medicine is difficult, especially when it comes to the brain. (Which is why medicine is full of “I don’t want to get sued speak”)
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
that not clickbait, it’s calle paraphrasing
can’t put the entire paraghaph as a headline
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
Its deliberately obfuscating a critical part of the quote in order to get more attention.
Its clickbait.
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
what part?
how would you have worded the headline to avoid what you call clickbait?
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Evidence linking Tylenol and autism not definitive “but very suggestive”, says health secretary Kennedy.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You can both be correct
Luci@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
TWO WILL ENTER ONE WILL LEAVE
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You’re both right.
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I think a more accurate paraphrasing would be that he said studies suggest Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism.
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What “studies”? you are now literally making things up and pretending this is less clickbait?
Even the FDA, under these absolute morons, cannot come up with anything to throw at Acetaminophen
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
From the OP article, emphasis mine.
Even the quote you shared says “prior clinical and laboratory studies”.