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The argument has always been that autism is on the rise and they’re casting about for a factor. I think it’s mostly, if not all, a matter of better diagnostic tools and procedures. Maybe there is another factor, but not seeing them present any real evidence here.

Also, Tylenol is hardly safe. Had a friend blow out her liver, was in a coma for 2-months until she got a replacement.

Responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits and 2600 hospitalizations, acetaminophen poisoning causes 500 deaths annually in the United States. Notably, around 50% of these poisonings are unintentional, often resulting from patients misinterpreting dosing instructions or unknowingly consuming multiple acetaminophen-containing products.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441917/

And who could forget the Tylenol Murders? :) It was a BIG deal, whole country scared shitless. I was only 11 but well aware of the whole thing.

Funny the event never comes up, but that’s why we have restrictive packaging. When I was a child, you could pull a product off the shelf, pop the top and remove the cotton wad, that easy. It was really weird watching the packaging change hit overnight.

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TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah this all reads as “well fuck we said we were gonna have something so we’ll just go with this thing we already knew should probably be avoided but left as the only real option so we’ll say it’s that and not actually change anything.”

Now I am much more worried about is their “cure” that was “tested” and posted about in Feb of this year… on… one… single… 3 year old… who they fully doxxed showing that, incase it wasn’t obvious by n=1, that the study is fucking bullshit and not following NIH standards at all.

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Hadn’t thought about the appearance of doing something. This admin will just let RFK run wild because it won’t affect any of them.
  
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MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
“I think it’s mostly, if not all, a matter of better diagnostic tools and procedures.”

This is the winner right here. If you ask your parents or grandparents about people they went to school with who were “a little weird” or “really shy” or “really into trains” or whatever it is. It was all just undiagnosed autism. The percentage of people with autism hasn’t changed. The percentage of people correctly diagnosed has. And of course it’s a spectrum. In the past they only diagnosed severely autistic people. Now with more understanding of it, we realize that it comes in several mild flavors as well.

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