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Officials will also tout the drug leucovorin as a potential autism treatment, in what President Donald Trump has billed as a “very important” announcement.

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I've got no idea what the alleged evidence for this is, but what I do know is that the people making these announcements are completely untrustworthy.

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[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 74 points 5 months ago (1 children)

what I do know is that the people making these announcements are completely untrustworthy

You are being overly kind. These people are BATSHIT Crazy.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd say they're moronic evil.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This suggests a whole new kind of D&D alignment chart.

[–] idealotus@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd say they're chaotic evil with 0 INT. I'm not even sure where they put their points.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

I'd assume Charisma maybe? Like, I don't find any of them charismatic in the slightest, but Trump especially seems to have this weird ability to make people follow him unquestioningly while he simultaneously fucks them over right to their face.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 4 points 5 months ago

Charisma, I guess.

[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel 'evil' requires a knowledge that what they is doing is wrong with intent in doing so. I don't think RFKjr is sane enough to know he is being harmful unfortunately. The administration is filled to the brim with both, people being harmful intentionally and ignorantly.

[–] mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

RFK is a crunchy parenting facebook group that has somehow achieved sentience.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

I was saying the other day that the only value I can see in RFK is for study, but as the subject. He's like one of those 19th century rail workers that accidentally blasts a metal rod through his head with dynamite and keeps living somehow. As far as I can tell he can't be operating on more than 20% of a functional human brain, but how?

[–] sweetbabyJames@lemmy.ml 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This will go away as soon as J&J pays the troll toll. We are in the "and I don't care who knows it!" stage of the kleptocracy.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

J&J spun it off into a company called Kenvue a couple years back, so lots less resources to fight it.

[–] unrealizedrealities@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Fabulous! Now treat those with autism with respect and dignity........................

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think this is a lead up to rounding up everyone with autism and moving them to special camps for "education".

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Knowing the current administration, it's probably so then can start selling sugar pills that 'reverse Tylenol autism' for $2K/pill and use them to loot the healthcare system.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Best I can do is arrest all the parents who gave their kids Tylenol for neglect and put them in camps.

And the kids too. Oh and we can give them all free jobs while they are there to give them the opportunity for them to learn new trades.

These non-human second rate child abusers need to be separated from us, they were attacking the children!

[–] gnate@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Starting with eliminating these bullshit claims for "causes" of autism.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m very happy I didn’t get diagnosed when I was younger, it’s sad though that I have to make the choice to not get diagnosed to not have to worry as much

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Weird how the famously autistic Temple Grandin had been alive for 8 years when Tylenol went on the market.

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Also:

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.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know the background for the bullshit here, but I really doubt anyone is implying that it is the ONLY cause.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Giving fascists the benefit of the doubt is a stupid move.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

That is easily explained. Temple Grandin's parents were time travelers from the future where Tylenol existed, making Temple also a time traveler as a baby to have a birthdate recorded 8 years prior to Tylenol's release to the market. /s

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for sharing! Saving a click: So there was a first, flawed study, which studied the link between Tylenol and autism on the basis of correlation (not causality), and they failed to factor in other underlying reasons why parents who end up having an autistic child might use acetaminophen slightly more often (ex: the parents themselves have a condition that makes them take Tylenol more often). The new thorough study clearly demonstrates that there are no links.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

The experiments that proves no connection between Tylenol and autism has been done two ways:

  1. In the 80s there was a tainted Tylenol scandal and sales were suspended and all pills recalled. Sales dipped to near zero for years. No difference to autism rates.

  2. Many countries avoid Tylenol use due to liver toxicity. No difference in autism rates.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Is this butterfly an autism?

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

For all the reasons Tylenol should be pulled from shelves, autism probably isn't one of them.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

McNeil Consumer Healthcare must not have paid their bribe money.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Look, acetaminophen is one of the most harmful OTC drug without this nonsese.

If they stop here, fine. But fight it like hell.

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alcohol is worse. Why is no on banning it?

If you take too much of something, it becomes harmful. What an epiphany.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I mean the sheer amount of sugar in our food has to be the largest cost to lifespans/healthcare in the U.S.

Id like to see us make a change over time introducing not bans but better ways to regulate packaging.

I don't want it to have warnings everywhere and dead fetuses and shit, I just want things like, green boxes, blue boxes, magenta boxes, stuff like that. Maybe an easy to see letter in the lower left for those who are color blind

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[–] mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

It's also worth noting that it's pretty much the only OTC painkiller you're allowed to take while pregnant, so

A. I would imagine the percentage of people who've taken it at least once while pregnant is staggeringly high, to such a point that this would be very difficult to adequately establish causation and

B. They are, once again, just screwing over pregnant people

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[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I knew it! Advils is our true overlord!

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