• blackbrook@mander.xyz
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    22 days ago

    Listen I know the RFK claim is nonsense but that doesn’t excuse faulty logic. This is like saying cancer existed before X so X can’t be a carcinogen.

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      22 days ago

      There are many countries worldwide that use a fraction of this drug compared to the US. Americans eat them like candy. Regardless, there is no difference in incidence of autism.

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    22 days ago

    The logic of the ‘meme’ is just bad. Something being identified before something else does not mean the second thing cannot create the first.

    Cancer existed before cigarettes, yet cigarettes still cause cancer. Using this ‘meme’s’ logic, “anyone trying to tell you that cigarettes cause cancers is entirely full of crap”.

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      22 days ago

      This is another dumb take. Cigarettes don’t cause cancer, they increase cancer risk.

      RFK is claiming he knows the cause of Autism not something that can increases its risks.

      The logic of this meme is sound.

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    22 days ago

    There’s a 100% correlation between a child coming into direct physical contact with their family doctor and that same child later being diagnosed with autism. Show me an example where this was not the case. Family doctors are sporing autismomes like a tickled mushroom and no one is talking about it.

  • glitchdx@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    it’s a bad argument, but the people claiming that Tylenol causes autism aren’t using logic to make their claim either.

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    Paracetamol, what you lot call acetaminophen, was first synthesized in 1877(or maybe much earlier in 1852). It wasnt widely used until the 1950s. Tylenol is a brand name that means fuck all to any conversation.

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    22 days ago

    There’s no time or resources in the world to debunk all the bullshit this people generate. Every day, all the time…

  • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I only buy generic brand medications, so my kids are at risk of generic brand autism. Is this going to be a signifier of a low income upbringing when they reach adulthood?

    Should I switch to name brand Tylenol for their future?

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      22 days ago

      Yes, like Lego bricks Vs generic ones, the autism from those has higher fault tolerances

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    22 days ago

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

    Findings In this population-based study, models without sibling controls identified marginally increased risks of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) associated with acetaminophen use during pregnancy. However, analyses of matched full sibling pairs found no evidence of increased risk of autism (hazard ratio, 0.98), ADHD (hazard ratio, 0.98), or intellectual disability (hazard ratio, 1.01) associated with acetaminophen use.

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      22 days ago

      I can’t wait to post this on social media. No one is going to respond and actually read a medical journal article but Bravo for this. Very interesting and telling. These people will take anything and run with it hardcore for an agenda my god lol

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    22 days ago

    Looks like those elite bastards are going to make some good old creaky stock market money off of their Tylenol lies.

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    22 days ago

    And before that, it was all kinds of slurs I shouldn’t say. It’s been here forever, we’ve only developed empathy for it recently.