Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.
This lawsuit, the first of its kind from a state government, comes a month after President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. The announcement set off a wave of controversy in the health care community, and confusion among pregnant women unsure how they should manage fever and pain during pregnancy.
It’s not even correlation, it’s just made up bullshit
We should start posting that 3.2% of children watching Trump on TV have developed autism, therefor Trump is using subliminal messaging and is dangerous to their kids. They may not care that a pedophile is in office, but mention subliminal messaging and they’ll go crazy.
Iirc, this idea comes from a study that found people who used Tylenol while pregnant actually did have a slightly heightened chance of birthing an autistic child. However, that study did not in any way address why this was the case, so incurious fools take it at face value and never examine things any further than that.
This means that there is some very small degree of corelation, even if that corelation has failed to hold water when put to later tests. One of the many, many things that these idiots refuse to look in the eye is that this data point is a singular, contextless point that has way more evidence against than there is for.
I hear where you’re coming from, but this one wasn’t ripped out of thin air, making it that much more annoying to talk these people out of. So it’s not just made up bullshit, but that is still about 99.99% of it.
Was this the same study that showed a potential link between certain viral infections and autism?
I haven’t heard that one before. No idea tbqh
Yeah, it’s much more probable that something that you take tylenol for is (one of) the culprit(s) here, not tylenol itself. Because the average US resident does not have the ability to think such complex thoughts, RFK is a nutjob and Paxton is corrupt as fuck, you get result like this. It’s embarrassing to watch.
I think it’s more that the average American has been taught to not be able to teach themselves, rather than that they completely lack the ability. Other than that, this all checks out as far as my own recollection can reckon.
oh i meant that the american reading ability, which is closely tied to the education system, is averaging sixth grade; that also means they lack the education to analyze texts and information above what is written; things like intent of an author, what the context is and what someone wants to achieve with the published information are completely lost when you lack the ability to read above a certain level. this is completely homemade, mainly by republicans who like their voters easily controlled.
Ahh. Completely agreed when you spin it like that. In fact, I’ve got a direly unwanted mountain of lived experience dealing with the exact sorts you’re conjuring, as I grew up in one of the podunkiest towns you can imagine. Not to say I’m particularly learned or clever (I’d like to think myself more honest than that lol), but the agony that is having to work under/take orders from these goons is something I’d only ever wish on the worst of us. Change can not come soon enough on so, so many gd levels :|