This is way better than I expected.

RFK Jr has long suggested that WiFi and cellular radio may be significant factor in autism (and ADHD, allergies, and obesity). I was expecting then that the big autism announcement would either be that or his old fallback of vaccines.

At least with Tylenol there is (if I correctly understood what I heard about this for the 2-3 minutes I had NPR on while driving to the AM/PM for a snack) there is a correlation between autism and use of Tylenol during pregnancy.

The discussion on NPR, which included a researcher who wrote a paper that the government is basing this on I believe, said that there is no evidence that there is causality here. Nearly everyone in the field thinks that it is far more likely that whatever is causing autism might also increase the likelihood of pain during pregnancy, and so the correlation with Tylenol is simply because those mothers turn to a pain reducing drug and Tylenol is the most commonly recommended drug for that.

Also, Trump managed to get through this without somehow finding a way to directly blame autism on the left/Democrats, so that too is way better than I expected.

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barbacoa 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is also no direct evidence that smoking causes lung cancer. There are no randomized controlled trials to establishing smoking is the cause. Nor could we ever feasibly run one. All we know is there is very strongly correlation.

	▲	tzs 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You've overlooked animal studies. There are numerous direct studies with animals exposed to cigarette smoke or even taught to smoke that have shown more than just correlation. You've also overlooked that we can see what chemicals smoking exposes lung cells to, and we can expose cultured lung cells in the lab to those chemicals and see that they are carcinogenic.

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joquarky 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Doesn't autism tend to cause increased sensitivity?

And if autism is genetic, then the mother might also be more sensitive and request pain relief.

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TomK32 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not sure why you got downvotes for sarcasm.

Russ Barkley did a video three weeks ago on I guess that study (or meta study) and it's not just the likely increased pain in mothers with ADHS but as soon as you take in a control group like siblings the correlation just vanishes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

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UncleMeat 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Trump is going on TV and saying that they don't have autism in cuba because they are too poor to afford tylenol and that we shouldn't have mmr vaccines because there is "too much liquid" in them. It is a clown show.

	▲	ModernMech 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Clown shows are at least wholesome entertainment. This is a travesty in the fullest meaning of that word.