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No credible tie between Tylenol use and autism/ADHD study finds

https://newatlas.com/adhd-autism/low-concern-tylenol-adhd-or-autism/
52•atombender•1h ago

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oulipo2•42m ago
How surprising! lol
vahid4m•38m ago
yeah. We can see how controversial this is by looking at the comment count
alsetmusic•37m ago
The people who need to see this don't travel outside of their self-reinforcing media ecosystem or they wouldn't have been susceptible to this nonsense in the first place.
danielodievich•34m ago
surprised pikachu faces all around.
threatofrain•33m ago
Too late. Mission accomplished. Other acetaminophen brands weren't called out, just Tylenol.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kenvue-kimberly-clark-acquisiti...

toast0•18m ago
It's ok, maybe Tylenol can rebrand as paracetemol and leave the legacy of acetaminophen behind them.
efavdb•29m ago
“Current evidence does not demonstrate a clear link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism but our work also demonstrates how poor the data is around medications in pregnancy,"
FridayoLeary•23m ago
It was very odd the way Trump called it out. Rfk is the oddest guy in the administration so it's not surprising. Trump however is pretty transactional and usually has a good reason for the things that he does, even if you don't like them (and not just self serving attention grabbing reasons, but power plays and maximum pressure tactics) . He definitely had an angle here. Was it to demonstrate his power to Big Pharma? Either way this was a bit of an own goal for him.
autoexec•13m ago
I just assumed it was stock manipulation (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25l92q9xgo)
Sohcahtoa82•21m ago
Too late. The damage has been done and the truth doesn't matter.

We're gonna have people saying Tylenol causes Autism/ADHD for at least another 5 years.

dylan604•7m ago
And the company cannot sue for libel as SCOTUS has already stated that POTUS is immune as long it was part of official acts. The thing I don't know enough about is if they meant for suing in the courts while still allowing for Congress the ability granted them by the Constitution to impeach/convict/remove. That was Trump's position as the only way to hold POTUS accountable, which goes to explain why he is so worried about keeping control of both chambers. What happens after his term doesn't matter has he has immunity from SCOTUS if Congress does nothing.
tracker1•8m ago
I think the general advice to pregnant women is to generally avoid most/all medications as much as possible as a just in case thing.

There are a lot of things that it could be that changed to bring more autism in society. It could also be a multi-generational affect of things started close to a century ago. We have a lot of food that isn't anything someone a couple hundred years ago would consider "food"... highly processed, industrialized, refined, etc. The fact is, we largely don't know, and a lot of affects are individualized.

defrost•1m ago
There are concerns that the increase in autism diagnoses is because something is causing more children to be affected by the condition. Is this accurate?

  Changes in the diagnostic criteria and increased screening at wellness visits seem to be the main contributors. There have been a few studies over the past two years that have looked at a specific subgroup of individuals on the spectrum who frequently need 24-hour-a-day support and care from a caregiver, often have very limited verbal communication skills, or have intellectual disability that co-occurs with autism. 

  The data has shown that rates of autism for that subgroup have increased minimally, if at all, over the past nearly 10 years. 
~ Is There an Autism Epidemic?, John Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/is-there-an-autism-epidemi...

Autism diagnoses are on the rise – but autism itself may not be

  Autism is better known and diagnosed than ever before, leading to misconceptions that cases are skyrocketing.
~ BBC, 10th May, 2025: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250509-why-autism-diagn...
thegrim33•1m ago
This is a meta review that looked at a selection of other reviews that all suggested a correlation does exist. This meta review is pointing out that they believe there's not strong enough evidence in those other reviews to say concretely, scientifically, that there's a link. This is in no way a study saying that there is no link. It's a study saying there's not enough of a preponderance of evidence in all these other studies that show a link, to definitively say there's a link.

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