All of these people with degrees and years of research don't know anything! Only trust your favorite conspiracy theorist

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Context: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/29/health-chief-insufficient-data-tylenol-causes-autism/86972118007/

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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.

Kennedy's unproven claim initially hit shares of Kenvue, a consumer health company, which was spun off from Johnson & Johnson in 2023.

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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...

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That's like 1D chess level thinking

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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.

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Just want to say I appreciate you including a source. That's some good posting etiquette.

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Just want to add my own conspiracy theory: Junior is not reacting to the lack of evidence, but push-back from the antivaxers.

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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.

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The answer was in us all along.

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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…”.

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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.

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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.

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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 (hence the correlative vs causal relationships).

So the current well agreed on science is:

  • All current fever reducing medications (and most other medications) are correlated with detectably increasing the chances of a child being born with autism, including Tylenol
  • Having a fever while pregnant is correlated with increasing the chances of a child being born with autism well beyond the level that Tylenol would pose
  • So, strategically using Tylenol would be the best way to mitigate all risks. Which is also what was the general recommendation was prior to this DoH announcement.
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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.

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That's probably okay for mild fevers but if they get progressively worse then you're risking them permanent brain damage.

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