- 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. 
- 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. - 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… - That’s like 1D chess level thinking 
 
 
- 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. 
- Just want to add my own conspiracy theory: Junior is not reacting to the lack of evidence, but push-back from the antivaxers. 
- Just want to say I appreciate you including a source. That’s some good posting etiquette. 
- 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: - All current fever reducing medications (and most other medications) do raise the detectable chances of a child being born with autism, including Tylenol
- Having a fever while pregnant increases the chances of a child being born with autism well beyond the level that Tylenol would pose
- So, using strategically Tylenol would be the best way to mitigate all risks. Which is also what was the general recommendation was prior to this DoH announcement.
 
 
- 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…”. - They’ve been doing this for the last decade. - Step 1: Do something outrageous and horrible that hurts many people. - Step 2: Profit. - Step 3: Publish some kind of very timid, mild, barely visible retraction or admission somewhere that nobody will ever see or care about, knowing full well we live in an attention-span economy and you can literally buy whatever levels of visibility or invisibility as you want from media outlets. 
 



