| ▲ | bitwize 3 days ago |
| The vaccine-autism smoking gun that Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr. heroically tried to find has, so far, failed to turn up. But there was a study recently that showed that autism is correlated with the mother taking acetaminophen during pregnancy. |
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| ▲ | epgui 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr. heroically tried to find I'm not sure if that was supposed to be sarcastic, but these two people have done more harm to public health, and are responsible for more health dis/mis-information, than pretty much anyone I can think of. (I am a biochemist, no conflict of interest) |
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| ▲ | alwa 3 days ago | parent [-] | | In gp’s defense—I interpreted their formulation to suggest vaccine skeptics applied effort to an heroic degree/amount, not that the effort was of heroic virtue. That is, that those people applied ridiculously high levels of effort to searching for an effect, and still did not find an effect. As distinct from the retort that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”: It can be, if you’ve tried hard enough to gather the evidence and come up short—which is what these guys have done. | | |
| ▲ | bitwize 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I was being highly, highly sarcastic. People still banging the vaccine-autism drum are heroes only in their own mind. | | |
| ▲ | epgui 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for clarifying, it was really not obvious given the incredible prevalence of vaccine skepticism! |
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| ▲ | epgui 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah that was my charitable reading as well, but with the incredible prevalence of anti-vax/vaccine skepticism, you can never be sure. I thought clarifying could be helpful! |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The general advice is to not take any medication during pregnancy without a physician’s advice. This includes all over the counter medicines. |
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| ▲ | unsupp0rted 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Physicians find it hard, perhaps impossible, to say "do nothing and go home". They always prescribe something or other. Okay some don't, particularly North American and Northern/Western European ones. But mostly, on average, physicians always try to prescribe you something. | |
| ▲ | adaml_623 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Provide a reference please. Which country is that from? | | |
| ▲ | longhaul 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Read a paper long time ago, something to do with increase of sulfur in the brain | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | USA, what my wife’s OB told her. 20 years ago. | | |
| ▲ | adaml_623 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh I was hoping for a written down reference from an organisation responsible for giving medical advice rather than an single doctor. | | | |
| ▲ | sarchertech 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The OB will give you a list of what you can and can’t take. Tylenol is the only pain reliever you can take. | | |
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| ▲ | greesil 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Or maybe it's genetic. Or whatever. Cite yer sources matey, or it be all hot sargassum. |
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