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 have to wonder if they’ve become aware of the legitimate research that implies that paracetamol (= acetaminophen) may actually be no better than a placebo for pain relief.
Unlike a placebo, it does have real side-effects that are genuinely harmful, like potential liver damage and so on.
And then there’s that other research that found increased levels of paracetamol in both autistic children and their birth-giver, whatever the heck that means.
Naïvely extrapolate from these data points and you can reach the same conclusion they have.
The truly terrifying things here are 1) their complete misunderstanding of the statistics behind increasing diagnoses of, and also the history of autism and 2) that autism is being considered a bad thing.