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      I don’t see how Johnson and Johnson haven’t sued the absolute shit out of him at this point.

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    “The causative association . . . between Tylenol given in pregnancy and the perinatal periods is not sufficient to say it definitely causes autism. But it is very suggestive,” Kennedy told reporters, citing animal, blood and observational studies.

    Was what he actually said, the headline is click bait.

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      that not clickbait, it’s called paraphrasing

      can’t put the entire paraghaph as a headline

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      A respected academic telling me that something or another in data is “suggestive” means something. From a rando pseudoscientist working from the armchair, it means fuck all.

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    One Texas AG lawsuit, and they panic and rescind because they know their bullshit won’t hold up on court. Texas for the win??? 🤦‍♂️

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      ~(つˆ0ˆ)つ。☆ The stars at night are big and bright clap clap clap clap

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        As a native Texan i want to make clear that there is never a situation where someone yells out “the stars at night are big and bright” and everyone claps.

        That being said if it were to happen, absolutely everyone would clap.

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    I wonder how this will stack up in Texas’s lawsuit. Not that American law matters anymore…

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    But you said you knew it did…How could you slander/libel this brave american company.

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    Tylenol told him they’d sue his pants off is likely what happened here. It’s only a US brand of a more generic aspirin after all. So which is it, the generic drug, or the brand name that causes autism? Surely can’t be both in this case.

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      Tylenol is not a name brand of Aspirin, it’s a name brand of acetaminophen (paracetamol outside the US). They’re not even the same class of drug. Aspirin is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug and acetaminophen is an analgesic. They each work differently and have separate mechanisms of action. You can even find them sold together (along with caffeine) in a single drug for migraines and severe headaches.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol

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    It doesnt matter really, evidence is really irrelevant to the entire thing at this point. The people tuning in do not understand what autism is to begin with, let alone what evidence would even mean in this context.

    I won’t be surprised when studies show in a few years a large drop in Tylenol use during pregnancy (probably overall use too), and the diagnosis rate of autism continues the overall increasing trend (as we become better at diagnosing it).