RFK Jr. Report Will Link Autism To Tylenol Use During Pregnancy, Report Says
RFK Jr. Report Will Link Autism To Tylenol Use During Pregnancy, Report Says
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RFK Jr. Will Reportedly Link Autism To Tylenol Use During Pregnancy
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Tylenol.
Acetominaphen.
... Arguably the most common component of general, over the counter pain relievers... on the planet.
I mean...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406
Here ya go, here's a 2024 study debunking the thing that RFK is likely referencing.
EDIT: Further, folinic acid as a 'treatment' for autism.
So... yes, there are early preliminary studies indicating that this may be a way of alliviating some of the effecfs of non-syndromic ASD.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5794882/
Non-syndromic ASD is essentially nonverbal, nonresponsive ASD.
... There are many autistic people and kids who are not non-syndromic, an ASD diagnosis does not even require this kind of behavior.
Further, the proposed mechanism of action in using folinic acid to 'treat' autism is that it acts upon an abnormal level of folate blockers...
While it is true that ASD folks tend to have more of these folate blockers than non ASD folks...
Many of them do not.
Generally speaking, abnormal folate pathways... appear to be called Cerebral Folate Disorder (CFD) by this Dr. Frye who seems to be spearheading this line of research.
... I am also somewhat concerned that many of his studies are funded by Autism Speaks, an organization notorious for, amongst other things, not actually allowing autistic people to speak, generally viewing autism, as Dr. Frye put it, 'a devastating life long condition', akin to leukemia (cancer of the blood) which must be cured, thus propogating a stigma, stereotype and fear of autism, and of course, being a shitty non-profit that spends the vast majority of its funding on 'operational costs', as opposed to... you know, actually doing things that might be helpful to autistic people... and more or less advocating eugenics while saying they aren't but then immediately afterwaed advocating a different kind of eugenics.
https://www.themarysue.com/the-autism-speaks-controversy-explained/
Nevertheless:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40362912/
There are a number of small scale studies like this one, done by people not directly associated with Dr. Frye, that do seem to show improvements amongst non syndromic ASD individuals who also have this folate abnormality and/or the genetic mutations that are associated with it....
But I am so far unable to find any large scale studies.
Soooooo...
Yeah.
I am going with 'very preliminary positive results for a subset of autistic people' on this one.
Maybe, maybe, at best, Dr. Frye has discovered an actually physically distinguishable subtype or subcomponent of ASD, and a potentially effective treatment for that subcomponent.
Maybe.
Oooorrrrr...
Maybe there should be a study which takes into account how ASD kids respond to folinic acid, when you also devise a way to measure whether or not the parents treat those.studied autistic kids as hopeless defectives, vs actual tiny people whose brains just work a bit differently.
There is still a huge amount of research showing that the 'nurture' component of a person's upbrining greatly affects their liklihood of developing, and severity of ASD.
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Honestly, this is probably one of the better outcomes. Hopefully ibuprofen works well enough for pregnant people. He could have agreed with "vaccines cause autism" thing to fuel his attacks on vaccines. Or worse, he could have noticed that genetics play a big part and started a eugenics program.
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What education, qualifications, experience and/or expertise does this clown have? As far as I know, the only thing he knows about "pharma" would have come from his heroin use.
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He said a bunch of shit that the country's most fearful and illiterate people loved to hear, he validated the fringe conspiracy theorists which breeds a kind of obsessive love that you can't buy with all the campaign money in the world, so Trump tapped him to keep pied-piper'ing the segments of rats who would vote for having a live porcupine stuffed down their pants if it meant validating the ONE topic that scares them the most. In this case, "mainstream science."
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Someone diagnosed him as being ASD at some point in his life and he's still mad about it because internalised ableism
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Assuming autism is “caused” by something and there is an “increase” of cases (not just diagnosis). Shouldn’t we start checking on Monsanto and the pesticides before anything else? Why are they obsessed with vaccines and medications?
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Is there really an increase in autism or increase in awareness of neurodivergent/autistic people? The increase in diagnosis doesn’t necessarily mean there’s an anctual increase of cases. You can’t measure anything if you don’t look for it in the first place.
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This is a really important point. Diagnoses go up with each revision of the DSM (at least in the US, as it's put out by the American Psychiatric Association) because the authors are intentionally making the criteria more expansive.
To be clear this is policy and guidance playing catch up with reality, and it still hasn't caught all the way up.
Be wary of anyone conflating increases in rates of diagnoses with rates of occurrence, anybody talking about changes in rates of autism diagnoses that fails to speak to this is either being disingenuous or are themselves the victims of others disingenuity.
It's like putting down mousetraps and then being surprised to find mice in them. The mousetraps don't increase the number of mice (ideally they decrease them!) but they can change your perception of how many mice there are by increasing opportunities for exposure.
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The increase in diagnosis doesn’t necessarily mean there’s an anctual increase of cases.
Everyone knows this but they are letting them re-write reality anyway. They did this with Covid, an actual lethal virus that killed over a million Americans. We may never know the actual death-count because of conservative administration efforts to decrease diagnosis numbers. And they were OPEN about this, and we didn't march on DC then, so I don't expect it's going to get much better going forward.
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Not to mention if you read how people who lived before modern medicine were described, you can guess if they were autistic or add. Not to mention the ones who were very low functioning were a secret kept at home or institutionalized.
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Is there really an increase in autism or increase in awareness of neurodivergent/autistic people?
That's exactly what the person you're replying to meant by...
“increase” of cases (not just diagnosis).
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I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't The Onion. I pray to the god that doesnt exist that the world somehow recovers from this and people look back at this chapter of human history as the time we finally learned not to let fucking idiots be in charge...
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Anti-intellectuallism is a repeating story in world history. Something about human genetics makes our communities susceptible to this. Khmer Rouge and China's Cultural Revolution are a couple of examples of these movements gaining control of a government. Witch hunts (any woman with knowledge perceived to threaten church teaching must burn) were a long standing practice often driven from non-governmental actors.
It always passes, but previous iterations have taken decades or hundreds of years.
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Witch hunts were something extremely special.
Did you know that during the middle ages witchcraft was actually denied by the Roman Catholic Church? As in they denied witches existed despite biblical mentions. In some parts of Eastern Europe it was even a crime to accuse a woman of Witchcraft.
So what happened? In the same way that the internet made knowledge extremely easy to obtain, it also made misinformation able to spread like never before. The printing press did that. There was exactly one book on Witchcraft published towards the end of the Middle Ages that got widespread circulation due to the printing press. Then Witch burning and trials became common.
Its nuts to think that.
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Yeah, the age of the Non-Expert and the stupid people that think that's a good thing.
Like the podcasters on Professional Left say, I want some of these assholes that vote for this shit ("because Taco is not a politician!") to have their fucking teeth drilled by "not a dentist".
FFS.
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He will not make that link because it's not there and literally nobody can.
He may, however, lie and be wrong.
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No no he wants pregnant women to start taking ibuprofen.
Next up, the rise in prenatal mortality is linked to Democrats somehow
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easy solution here is for all republicans to get themselves sterilized.
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doesn't it take one pregnancy to prove this wrong? all you need is a mother of an autistic person who didn't use Tylenol while pregnant.
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They might just tell her she did use Tylenol while pregnant, she just forgot/took it without knowing.
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Not really. A link doesn't mean a necessary causation. It doesn't have to be exclusively caused by tylenol. Skin cancer is linked to excessive sun exposure, but it can occur without it, and likewise, not everyone who is experiencing increased UV exposure gets skin cancer. Not every smoker gets lung cancer, not every lung cancer is caused by smoking (IIRC only 50% of lung cancer patients are smokers - it's just that not 50% of people are smokers). But a certain risk factor increases the occurence of a disease.
I guess what you are thinking of would be comparable with FASD, a mother who has a child with fetal alcohol syndrome but never drank any alcohol during pregnancy would disprove the causation. My guess would be that this isn't what they are going for but a vague "it increases the likelihood of the child developing autism".
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what? not at all. your comparison would be appropriate if i said one pregnancy where the mother takes Tylenol but the kid doesn't have autism
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I link this worm infested brain dead twat to a very large piece of shit.
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Brace yourself, folinic acid and acedomediphine are about to be politicized. I'm reading up before the noise is too loud:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folinic_acid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol
And the pages are locked, if not defaced, lol.
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Why will they be politicized?
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There are a couple of historical examples that escape my soft brain, but ivermectin is a big one.
Basically, during COVID-19, some rural doctor in India published a paper on Ivermectin reducing COVID fatalities. Which is great!
...Because Ivermectin is a livestock dewormer. It's an anti-parasitic, so it reduced the chance of co-infection with parasites in rural India (which would weaken your immune system so you're more likely to die of COVID).
But the anti-vax crowd lost this nuance in the paper and ran with this as an alternative treatment, misinformation that still persists today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#COVID-19_misinformation
...That's whats about to happen.
Tylenol (acedomediphine) will be forever linked to causing autism, true or not. No one amount of refutation is going to kill the meme.
And Folinic acid, whether its a provably effective treatment or not, is not going to get touted by the anti-vaxx crown who 'believe' in its efficacy.
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How far are we along with "autism is a genetic defect and we are now euthanizing defective humans for the benefit of society" are we?
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His fixation on autism is super creepy.
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Especially as a 'disease,' not a spectrum.
Not to belittle the effects on people of course.
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How else are we supposed to make the pure superior American race? /s
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Okay, so does that mean vaccines for everyone?
I mean, I can get behind giving everyone this false belief if it means they'd go out and get their families vaccinated. I'm not above weaponizing their stupidity to save their lives.
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This is crazy and is going to get so many more people hooked on opiates.
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With the plethora of other NSAIDs, would opiates be the next recourse anyway?
I already tend to avoid acetaminophen since the others are better liver wise anyway.
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Maybe not relevant, but Tylenol (acetominophen) isn't classified as an NSAID. Whatever, I see no reason to trust RFKj on any matter of health, medicine, or pharmaceuticals. The man is an uneducated crank who achieved his position in trade for asskissing.
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NSAIDs can't be used in pregnancy
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Yeah. The liver part is why I also avoid it. Especially if you like to have a few drinks every once in a while
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Most countries outside North America avoid NSAIDs because of liver damage. In 2025, I have no idea why NSAIDs are over-the-counter. But in countries that avoid acetominophen, they still have autism.
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I hope our pharma oligarchs put this trust fund silver spoon drug addict in his place.
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So something so ludicrously common that it basically can't be proved. Super.
Did you know that 97% of people killed in car accidents clean their teeth on a regular basis? I think we need to look into that.
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it basically can’t be proved.
Due to a massive dip in Tylenol sales from the tainted bottles scandal in 1982, Kenvue can easily prove autism rates were not affected.
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It's the fluoride!
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100% of people exposed to dihydrogen monoxide eventually die, and sometimes develop an array of diseases and disorders before their inevitable death.
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Those "report"s should be tagged fairytales
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I don't know Kenvue, but i wish them luck killing RFK Jr. In court.
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They will effortlessly win this suit. Remember the tainted Tylenol scandal in 1982? This killed Tylenol sales for years. No effect on autism rates.
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I concur but would remove the "in court" aspect.
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Hey buddy, here's a little secret. You know what causes autism? Being fucking autistic
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Good news for Canadian fentanyl super labs.
This report will result in a massive lawsuit by Kenvue.
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Fucking crackpots in charge. This makes Lysenkoism seem sensible in comparison.
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Oh it can get so much worse. Lysenkoism killed a lot of people and this dipshit seems poised to maybe do worse, given how he's fucking with vaccines (but being the cowardly little lying shit that he is, claiming that he isn't).
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Except its more likely ibuprofen that is possibility.
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Thank you for being a real-world example for why people need to stay in school and get their High School diploma.
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That dude is talkin a lot of shit for a guy standing in the "get pushed in front of subway" zone.
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Personally I'm expecting him to get shot, not even necessarily for being a shitstain but because he is a Kennedy. If some dumbass can try to kill Reagan to impress Jane Fonda(?) for some reason then someone will want to kill RFK Jr for the meme.
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Why are these people so desperate to find some external factor for autism?
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Depends on, many want a scapegoat to punish, many want a reason to try to "fix" us, and I guess many want a reason to leave those who are in need of support without it by blaming it onto them.
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Because right-wing parents refuse to believe they have a genetic disorder in their in-bred families.
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Whoa, whoa, I don't like the insinuation that autism only comes from inbreeding either.
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Because the religious and/or kooks don't sit well with the chaos/randomness of life.
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Because the anti-vax people who have autistic kids hate their children. They hate that they're not perfect and "normal". And they hate that they have to deal with a child that requires more care than other people's children do.
I think we should make banners and say it out loud to every single person who can hear.
#Anti-vaxxers HATE autistic children
#Especially if that autistic child is their own.
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Yep, this is precisely it.
I really seriously believe that autistic/neurodiverse people and especially kids should be viewed as a kind of class of person that is at high risk of being discriminated against, hate crimed, targetted by state violence.
Hans Apsberger was a fucking Nazi who ... literally coined the term autism and yes, he is the guy apsbergers is/was named after... and yes, he directly orchestrated the deaths of 'mentally disabled' children.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-hans-aspergers-nazi-collusion/
They're gonna do another genocide, based on more junk science, just like the OG Nazis.
RFK Jr has already said he wants to take everyone on any kind of prescription psychiatric medication, move them to forced labor farms, house them in bunkhouses, remove their phones, all contact with the outside world, and also make them all quit their meds cold turkey.
https://slate.com/life/2025/06/donald-trump-rfk-jr-kennedy-health-wellness-farms.html
This is the kind of shit you hear TrueAnon describing cults doing.
But scaled way, way up.
This is a recipe for causing millions of psychotic breaks, just cold turkey, unmanaged total cessation, no gradual wind downs with check ins with therapists and such, also done in basically slave labor conditions.
Possibly also worth mentioning is RFK Jr's aunt Rosemary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
She was suffocated as a newborn for 2 hours.
This caused her to be developmentally delayed.
They lobotomized her (while she was awake and conscious) at age 23.
This regressed her to the state of a 2 year old.
She was institutionalized and largely hidden from the public for the rest of her life.
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This is literally Nazi mad scientist shit.
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I've never thought about it like that but it makes so much sense. The hate in the heart of these people runs incredibly deep, I know because my own family has disowned me because I refused to "take the red pill".
I am a leader in a youth organization and we have a few autistic kids in our group. They are wonderful kids, and their parents are just amazing with their patience and love for all the kids. I can't imagine the difficulties they face, but I'm so truly blessed and happy to have these kids in my and my children's lives. I've worked with special needs kids a few times, and the pure joy they are capable of is something that sticks with you.
But I've also known a few less involved and less interested parents who denied and refused care for their kids who clearly need help. I can't say I know the political persuasion of any of these folks, but I'm pretty good at inference...
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Does RFK have any autistic family? If love to know what triggered his crusade. It can't just be a belief in pseudoscience.
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Because they can't cope with random chance, there has to be a cause. They need a villain.
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They don’t wanna blame god.
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Is that as those who are punished, in religion, deserve it? However children are innocent and usually autism is diagnosed in young people or children. So, they don't 'deserve' it? If it's just random, maybe other things are too and the preachers are making stuff up?
It's a long train of thought to get there. I'd say it's more just susceptibility to conspiratorial thinking, but who knows.
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Wow, autism turns out to be not only bad but also women's fault. Amazing what an investigation under the impartial leadership of misogynist neo-Nazis can discover.
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I like this guy. He's on track to finally pin lung cancer on the tobacco industry. Any day now.
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More likely to blame it on oxygen.
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That's the sad thing.
The sentiment is good. MAHA pounding Big Processed Food and Big Tobacco and (to an extent) Big Pharma and such is great.
...If only the specifics weren't so awful.
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Well as long as we can blame women, that's what's really important. Remember moms, if your child is neurodivergent it's entirely your fault you irresponsible hag.
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This sounds like satire, as though this isn’t exactly what these people actually think.
100 years ago, when these people think was the ‘golden age’, women were actually blamed for their children’s issues. They blamed nearly everything on women. Yeah, let’s go back to that: MAGA women, how does that sound to you? Do you think you’re one of the good ones?
Let’s bring back lobotomies for women who have too many opinions, too. The world was better when only men were allowed to have opinions and women were the root of all evil, like the bible says.
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This sounds like satire, as though this isn’t exactly what these people actually think.
It still happens today.
I just had a baby. You've no idea how many times we were told "Good/Great Job Mom" after hearing the baby is healthy, and seeing it isn't deformed.
As if an illness would be my wife's fault.
We just left those on read. Like WTF?
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One remembers the "refrigerator mothers" idea
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From the mouth of a wannabe Mengele.
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Crackhead/gymbro Mengele
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Pee Wee Mengele
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The makers of Tylenol are about to sue the shit out of this clown.
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And then the government will buy a 10% stake.
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Sadly theyre going to sue the shit out of the US government, which we will all be paying for with tax dollars when they win… direct consequence courtesy of the morons who voted for this
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Wouldn't surprise me if Trump or someone else in this admin is good friends with executives at Johnson and Johnson and the whole point is to just give the company massive gift by doing a legal case with high damages and guaranteed loss
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Can they please just sue Jr. directly instead? Maybe if we ask nicely they will?
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They won't. The knee will bend as always.
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Is there only one place that produces all the acetaminophen? He hasn't named any brands directly that I'm aware but i don't fallow that weirdo very closely. If he names a big pharm brand directly you know it's some real market manipulation, right?
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What a fucking joke. Tylenol is literally like, the only painkiller you can take while pregnant. Our OB said only Tylenol. To attack this, that is in such broad use, is to clearly state that this study is bunk and they're just making shit up
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Dude said he could see kids' mitochondrial DNA or some shit, anything he says should be bunk!
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Have they tried investigating water? Most criminals have water. Most pregnant mothers whose kids turn out to have autism drink water.
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The dangers of dihydrogen monoxide are well known 🤣
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Real murican mothers drink only beer and good ol whiskey
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Turns out they have investigated water, and it's fucking toxic here in the states. 100 or so chemicals are regulated and tested for out of many thousands.
Based on the data of the chemicals that we regulate and test for, the reality points to our water as being a potential environmental cause to seriously look into.
https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/
Capitalism and the byproducts of the industrial revolution are driving chronic disease in a general sense, at the very least.
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The study isn't necessarily bunk, but I wouldn't trust him even as far I could throw him.
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If you look at studies from the past decade you'll find multiple, that are actually worth their salt with a high enough sample size, showing no changes in standard distribution of abnormalities. If you would like to post some studies proving your point that there is validity to this, please enlighten me. But the majority of OBs will continue to recommend Tylenol for pain relief in pregnant people.
This is a trial run for his vaccine bullshit. If he can get away with this, you can bet your ass he's coming out with a "our study shows vaccine cause autism and SIDS in babies" and use that to halt vaccines. The man has told us who he is for decades and a high on heroin leopard, does not change his spots.
Do not try to give validity to his bullshit, unless you have well documented (multiple studies), large sample sizes, and over a significant amount of years studying the results. This kind of rhetoric is gonna be the thing that kills us, when he pulls the trigger on vaccines.
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I'm confused where this zeitgeist about Tylenol being bad for you is coming from. I remember working in pharmacy that taking Acetaminophen was the least reactive painkiller with the least number of long-term issues, but I'm hearing a lot more people talking about how bad it is for you.
The studies I've seen have been correlative at best, and, considering that NSAIDs and opioid painkillers are far worse over time, I don't understand the dissonance in advice that seems to be appearing.
Is this more "seed oil" nonsense?
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I don't follow this topic regularly and I can't say anything about the mechanisms. From a superficial search I would claim that there is good evidence that Tylenol use during pregnancy can make the development of asthma in the child more likely. There is also some indication (at least one large cohort study from Icahn medical school) that it may cause delayed language development.
That would be enough evidence for me to discourage use during pregnancy for treatment of discomfort or light pain, when safer options can be tried.
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A lot of common over the counter drugs like Tylenol are more risky than people assume, so the idea of one having negative effects on fetal development isn't out of left field. At the same time, not a single study pushed by this anti science ideologue can ever be trusted without corroboration by independent researchers. The risk of having a bad reaction to common medication nobody bats an eye at is often higher than the vaccines this dumbass rails against, so it's not like a stopped clock being almost right makes up for his bullshit.
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so it's not like a stopped clock being almost right makes up for his bullshit.
Nice try, Jessica
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It's pretty easy to overdose on Acetaminophen, Wikipedia suggests >100k a year in the us (it's in so many OTC medication, stuff like cough syrups and the like, really easy to hit the 4g/day max dose)
I'll still use it, just use it responsibly.
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It's not even a good pain reliever.
I don't know why it's so popular.
Ibuprofen/Motrin works about 100x better.
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I thought they put acetaminophen with other drugs to keep from overdosing because it will cause pain if you take to much.
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To add to this I've heard professionals in my field say if acetaminophen was discovered today it would likely be a controlled substance for this reason alone. The overdose potential is too high. That always seemed like an extreme measure but i can understand it.
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Not as easy as aspirin.
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There were no autistic people before the 70s, of course 🙄
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There were no planets before telescopes either.
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And there will be no more after we stop testing, purge the information.
Welcome to the new America.
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So my wife who can't take Tylenol yet my son is on the spectrum, I am doubting this finding.
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Anecdotal. However RFK jr. has even less evidence. sigh.
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This dumb bitch.
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Mission accomplished, eh buddy?
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In the article it says folinic acid is a treatment for autism. Like....what?
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...and they aren't even calling it Vitamin B9. Big science words. Aren't they the ones that want to ban any words in food that sound scary? I mean, it's folic ACID! ACID!!!
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While this has been a serious inquiry of study, there is no causitive relationship yet. Also I'm fairly certain we would have a significantly higher population of autistic individuals.
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Microplastics in the air caused by brake and tire dust seem to be the most compelling link I've seen. But that would mean a rethink of way too much, so blame a generic drug no one will bother defending.
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Microplastics in the air caused by brake and tire dust seem to be the most compelling link I’ve seen
There is nothing compelling in one shit study. Brake and tire dust have been a thing for 120 years.
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Older aged parents on average is an issue as well
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We DO have a higher population. But most of us are so used to masking our divergent behaviors that we have no idea that there is an explanation for why our thought processes differ from neurotypicals. We don’t know we’re autistic. But now that I know, I can confidently say that I like myself, I like how my brain works, and I do not have a disorder, or an illness, or any kind of affliction. I’m wired differently and I’m good with that, and I would not change even if I could. Bobby Kennedy and his brainworm can be forcibly drowned in a vat of molecular acid as far as I am concerned.
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Vat of Molecular Acid for CDC!
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For fucks sake, someone please stop this brain-worm-demented menace. He’s gonna kill so many people.
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No one ever looks at DuPont or 3M. Major producers of forever chemicals.
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Which probably cause a variety of cancers, but not autism. The increased rates are almost entirely the result of better diagnosis criteria.
When JFK's nephew hears 1 in 36 kids is diagnosed, his mind jumps to someone more disabled than his Aunt Rosemary after Walter Freeman was through with her.
But almost all of the increase in diagnoses is made up of people who have a favorite train livery, want their food to have a specific texture, and get pretty upset about the itchy tag in their shirts.
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A reminder that this wrinkly wavery fuck set a deadline for this conclusion. That’s… not how science works.
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Not with that attitude
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This is the worst game of mad libs ever
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RFK consulting his expert
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Microwaved Mel Gibson.
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And we have linked your erratic behavior to a brain worm.
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Something tells me the brain worm made less difference than it should. This guy's mind was already half eaten.
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I'm gonna need to see more than one peer-reviewed study before believing anything coming out of this administration.
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Here's a few, not sure if they're peer-reviewed but one is a meta-analysis. Important to note which journals these are published in, since less reputable journals will happily publish a lawsuit-seeking falsified study in exchange for money.
Anyway I haven't read these, here you go:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6138494/
In conclusion, on the basis of these studies, only weak associations between paracetamol exposure and neurodevelopmental issues have been identified, and no causal link can be inferred.
2018 The British Pharmacological Society
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/187/8/1817/4980325
Acetaminophen use during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk for ADHD, ASD, and hyperactivity symptoms. These findings are concerning; however, results should be interpreted with caution given that the available evidence consists of observational studies and is susceptible to several potential sources of bias.
- Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6822099/
Cord biomarkers of fetal exposure to acetaminophen were associated with significantly increased risk of childhood ADHD and ASD in a dose-response fashion. Our findings support previous studies regarding the association between prenatal and perinatal acetaminophen exposure and childhood neurodevelopmental risk and warrant additional investigations.
2019 American Medical Association
Okay yeah now I'm concerned.
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Okay yeah now I’m concerned.
This is the problem with access to papers on the internet to non-scientist. Epidemiology is a weak science, with correlations only, and huge amounts of hand waiving that is almost always wrong.
Note that this shit study did not ask why the mothers were taking acetominophen. Sample size is very low. No actual mechanism was even looked at. We piss away so much money on these studies, and if the data is negative, it is very difficult to publish, so they p-hack the data to see an effect, for more papers, for more funding.
Here's the problem with this stupid hypothesis:
In 1982, seven people were killed from tainted tylenol bottles in Chicago, this led to an immediate halt of use nationwide and the recall of 31 million bottles. Tylenol sales dipped for YEARS. Less autism? NO.
Also, while North Americans eat these pills like candy for any stupid reason, many countries, like Germany, Switzerland and Austria avoid them because of liver toxicity. No difference in autism rates.
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Okay yeah now I’m concerned.
The sum of those studies is effectively little to nothing. We all know that correlation is not causation and these correlations are weak and logically problematic.
Instead, take a look at this one, which not only hypothesizes a cause, but used that hypothesis to form a treatment that worked so well it seemed almost miraculous.
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Three weeks ago (interesting timing), meta study:
Our analyses using the Navigation Guide thus support evidence consistent with an association between acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy and increased incidence of NDDs. Appropriate and immediate steps should be taken to advise pregnant women to limit acetaminophen consumption to protect their offspring’s neurodevelopment.
https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01208-0
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Damn I didn’t think brain trauma was inherited from uncles
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Johnson&Johnson lawsuit in 3, 2, 1...
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This is the kind of lawsuit that might result in a settlement big enough to get the attention of the government budget folks.
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Wait, I thouht it was vaccines.
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And republicans endorse this shit because they're a death cult full of gullible fucking fruit loops. am I missing something?
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The bright froot loops or the dull Canadian ones?
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No it, won't
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Can we be sure he doesn't actually have some kind of disability that makes him so stupid? I mean, he had a fucking worm eat some of his brain; that had to have had an effect.
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Worm logic.
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I’m sure the manufacturer is fine with that.
Edit: quick look and Kenview’s stock just tanked.
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J&J are going to have a field day with this.
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So "not vaccines" then. Am I hearing that right?
👉👌🫏
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More distractions...
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in before Kenvue stops by the whitehouse to drop off a "donation"
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From the article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/autism-leucovorin-medicine-folic-acid/
Cerebral folate receptor autoantibodies in autism spectrum disorder https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2011175
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Will he use fake studies hallucinated by chatGPT for this report, too?