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The vaccine-autism smoking gun that Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr. heroically tried to find has, so far, failed to turn up. But there was a study recently that sh
by bitwize 1y ago
The vaccine-autism smoking gun that Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr. heroically tried to find has, so far, failed to turn up. But there was a study recently that showed that autism is correlated with the mother taking acetaminophen during pregnancy.
- SoftTalker 1y agoThe general advice is to not take any medication during pregnancy without a physician’s advice. This includes all over the counter medicines.
- adaml_623 1y agoProvide a reference please. Which country is that from?
- SoftTalker 1y agoUSA, what my wife’s OB told her. 20 years ago.
- sarchertech 1y agoThe OB will give you a list of what you can and can’t take. Tylenol is the only pain reliever you can take.
- SoftTalker 1y agoI’d say that qualifies as physician advice.
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- adaml_623 1y agoOh I was hoping for a written down reference from an organisation responsible for giving medical advice rather than an single doctor.
- SoftTalker 1y agoWell here’s one: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/pregnancy-safe-medications https://health.clevelandclinic.org/pregnancy-safe-medication... While they do list some medicines, note that they also say check with your doctor first.
- longhaul 1y agoRead a paper long time ago, something to do with increase of sulfur in the brain
- unsupp0rted 1y agoPhysicians find it hard, perhaps impossible, to say "do nothing and go home". They always prescribe something or other. Okay some don't, particularly North American and Northern/Western European ones. But mostly, on average, physicians always try to prescribe you something.
- epgui 1y ago> Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr. heroically tried to find I'm not sure if that was supposed to be sarcastic, but these two people have done more harm to public health, and are responsible for more health dis/mis-information, than pretty much anyone I can think of. (I am a biochemist, no conflict of interest)
- alwa 1y agoIn gp’s defense—I interpreted their formulation to suggest vaccine skeptics applied effort to an heroic degree/amount, not that the effort was of heroic virtue. That is, that those people applied ridiculously high levels of effort to searching for an effect, and still did not find an effect. As distinct from the retort that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”: It can be, if you’ve tried hard enough to gather the evidence and come up short—which is what these guys have done.
- bitwize 1y agoI was being highly, highly sarcastic. People still banging the vaccine-autism drum are heroes only in their own mind.
- epgui 1y agoThanks for clarifying, it was really not obvious given the incredible prevalence of vaccine skepticism!
- epgui 1y agoYeah that was my charitable reading as well, but with the incredible prevalence of anti-vax/vaccine skepticism, you can never be sure. I thought clarifying could be helpful!
- greesil 1y agoOr maybe it's genetic. Or whatever. Cite yer sources matey, or it be all hot sargassum.
- bitwize 1y agoArrh, be this good enough for ye? https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/using-acetaminophen-during-pregnancy-may-increase-childrens-autism-and-adhd-risk/ https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/using-acetaminophen-during-pre... https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01208-0 https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-...