Acetaminophen use during pregnancy is not likely to raise the risk of having a child with autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability, according to a new study published Friday.

Researchers across Europe reexamined evidence from multiple studies investigating the link between these conditions and the use of paracetamol — called acetaminophen in the United States — and found that these purported associations fell apart after controlling for confounding factors.

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    In a sane world, you should be able to prosecute RFK for making or repeating lies. They would claim a defence that they were misinformed and not an expert in the field.

    The precidence that needs to be set is that if you are appointed to a position of responsibility you are then automatically considered qualified in that field for the purpose of law.

    Its either that, or break out the guillotines

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    It’s a shame how the wretched US-regime has completely destroyed even such important organizations as the CDC. I recently talked about this with some old friends: All of them are specialists or senior physicians in hospitals in Switzerland, Germany, and Spain—and they all agreed: The CDC can no longer be taken seriously, as virtually all competent medical professionals have been dismissed. This is a huge loss that is costing many lives, and not just in the US.

    And why all this? Just because of the blatant idiocy of this corrupt regime, which acts beyond all reason. Their actions are truly a crime against the whole world.

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    no shit. how many people actually believe RFK’s claim? It was so obviously planned from the beginning, giving a date ahead of time that we’ll know the “cause”. Then afterwards, the company that owns tylenol got acquired. It’s wildly obvious this was just used as a way to push a business deal of sorts

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      Because people think autism equals very low functioning and intellectually disabled boys, so all those autistic people are both faking it to take autism away from very low functioning and intellectually disabled boys, and are the very low functioning and intellectually disabled boys themselves (if they say otherwise they’re just being kept in an illusion by well intentioned parents - this was allegedly stolen from some movie as The Silence Of The Lambs wasn’t the only place where bigots plagiarized their bigotry) to make the statistics look bad.

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    Well duh.

    (not against the post or research, just against people propagating the misinformation)

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    Think about what the resources going into this distraction could have investigated instead of doing this.

    At the very least I hope all the promotion coming from these republican clowns supporting the filthy supplement industry will lead to more rigorous critical scientific inquiry into the garbage snake oil insanity that this industry has become. It’s no different than the unregulated advertising industry of the early 1900s where companies could say legally say their food products could cure illness and enhance performance.

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    Did anyone believe it was ever linked to autism? I saw it as Trump buying a shitload of Tylenol shares and then doing his political dystopic dance to manipulate the stock market (yet again) and rake in more cash.

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      In your mind he bought Tylenol shares, then tanked the value of those shares, then profit? I think in this case what is more likely is because RFK claimed he would find the cause for autism they had to find a scape goat.

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        I’m sure you are correct. I was being a bit flippant but two (or more) things can be right at the same time.

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          For sure they can. I’m sure there was some other way he could take advantage of it. Sounds like one of RFKs friends did.

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    Harmless painkiller doesn’t cause autism as expected. Wow! It’s a shame that this has to be news. Next week “Fruit consumed during pregnancy doesn’t cause autism”