The autism thing is as thin of an excuse as Colbert being canceled because of ratings, but I understand that because I’m familiar with it.
Did the owner of Tylenol say they thought medicine should be available for poor people or something? Why is Orange Hitler so antiTy all of a sudden?
I’m no expert, but from what I’ve found, there was a study that saw higher traces of acetaminophen in autistic children and their mothers.
Now, to be clear, the authors of that study NEVER CLAIMED THAT TYLENOL CAUSED AUTISM. They discovered and reported the correlation, and their conclusion was that it should be looked into further. Again, not to determine a casual relationship, but to investigate things like: what kind of pain those mothers were experiencing to require taking Tylenol, and if that could be used as an early warning sign for autism. Additional studies have been done since then that show no signs of Tylenol causing autism.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think I read that it was neurological issues in general (not just autism specifically) that weakly correlated with tylenol usage.
But yes, the next question is what were they taking tylenol for? Fevers? Infections? Some type of illness? Some factor that itself might be what contributed to the neurological problems rather than the medicine they took to relieve their symptoms?
To over-simplify, it’s like saying tylenol causes headaches with no further study, because they found a correlation between taking tylenol and having headaches. Distinguish correlation and causation. Sometimes a correlation points to a cause, oftentimes it doesn’t.
Very well could be. I didn’t dig too deep, and I rarely understand most of what I see in those studies, but even I could tell that they weren’t claiming what Trump and Bobby were trying to claim.
Many correlations are a chicken & egg situation. We don’t know if what we’re measuring is the cause or the result of whatever we’re studying.
Maybe people with a genetic disposition towards autism process acetaminophen differently.
Maybe people who grew up with access to acetaminophen also grew up in the vicinity of some other environmental factor that also shares a positive correlation with acetaminophen.
There are plenty of potential explanations that aren’t a causal link between acetaminophen consumption and autism.