Submitted 1 day ago by s@piefed.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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He still hasn’t totally retracted his claim.
The causal association between Tylenol given in pregnancy in the perinatal periods is not sufficient to say it definitely causes autism, However, it is very suggestive.
Trickle truthing vibes, maybe in a year he will retract it.
If you are not autistic and have an autistic child, you’re probably looking for answers. I can understand that.
So go get checked for autism yourself.
The answer was in us all along.
This must be preparation for the freedom cities to make people long for an opportunity to escape their lunatic neighbors and from general US politics.
Just want to say I appreciate you including a source. That’s some good posting etiquette.
Just want to add my own conspiracy theory: Junior is not reacting to the lack of evidence, but push-back from the antivaxers.
The retraction, as always, will be ignored and shown to as few people as possible. That way these disingenuous fucks can say “bbbbut the health secretary said…”.
Eh, it’s not totally baseless. Hell, there’s even a non-zero chance it’s true. It’s way too early to claim it as true though, since studies on the topic are few, have mixed conclusions and correlation is not causation. I refuse to give it any more credence than “not totally baseless” though.
Here’s everything I know about this whole thing:
There has been a lot of research into the subject but there’s also been unreliable data that is being used to intentionally misrepresent what has been found (hense the correlative vs causal relationships).
So the current well agreed on science is:
Adjustment on bullet one. We shouldn’t say they “raise” the chance, they are correlated with the increase. There has been no causal path suggested that I’m aware of. It’s a hard distinction if your not used to the concept, but it’s important.
Anti febriles in general are a bad idea. They poison the immune response for the sake of comfort. I never gave them to my kids.
Rothe@piefed.social 1 day ago
That’s not it though. They will never care about evidence. This is just happening because he has received backlash from his pharmacorpo oligarch overlords about it.
Mist101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Exactly. Worm-brain didn’t 4D-chess enough to realize that pissing on a megacorp to sell more snake oil is a bad idea when that megacorp is a megacorp…