Acetaminophen use during pregnancy is not likely to raise the risk of having a child with autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability, according to a new study published Friday.
Researchers across Europe reexamined evidence from multiple studies investigating the link between these conditions and the use of paracetamol — called acetaminophen in the United States — and found that these purported associations fell apart after controlling for confounding factors.
Don’t bother me with facts, my mind’s made up. --RFK,Jr.
And frankly, all of MAGA, about EVERYTHING.
Doesn’t matter what studies say. The US is controlled by rumors and fake news now.
The only thing that matters to the people in charge is constant misinformation and distrust.
It actually helps their cause that there is a new study now - according to their disinformation machine this is just another “opinion” and proves their point.
The lie makes its way around the world before the truth has even put its shoes on. Lies are easy to make up. It takes ages to do studies and data reviews to gather evidence. It’s sad that this needed to be done to counter bullshit. The MMR vaccine lies still won’t go away after decades of disproving.
It actually helps their cause that there is a new study now - according to their disinformation machine this is just another “opinion” and proves their point.
KGB manuals written decades ago in the Cold War outline this tactic for destabilizing nations and getting populations to stop holding their government accountable, it’s the relatively simple process of just amplifying every argument, every side of every social issue, every scandal and every news story from the most extreme framing and to make sure you’re turning even the most reasonable idea into two extreme sides screaming nonsense at each other.
And for average, poorly educated, incurious people, a scientific argument is as nonsensical as a rambling spiel about raw milk and essential oils. If you don’t know how cells and chemistry work on even the most basic level, you have no framework to question if it makes sense putting red meat at the top of a new food pyramid. You just see arguments that you don’t understand both for and against it.
Since most people now get curated, atomized perspectives of the world, they don’t have a baseline to refer to for truth, so this effect has been distilled and enhanced with the internet and algorithms. Many people just read stories with competing, extremist language all day and tune the fuck out. They don’t know who or what to trust anymore, because everyone is shrieking that everyone else is lying, so they default to just whatever their mainstream media reporters tell them and stop feeling involved or connected at all. This is how state-media takes over a nation and cements the rule of the manipulative ruling-class.
and russia has tons of troll farms at thier disposal for constant disinformation, also doubles as propaganda for the right.
What is almost more infuriating about this entire thing is that Russia wasn’t even primarily responsible for any of this. I’m sure they had a hand, but there are so many other forces trying to do this at once. For example, Elon Musk monetizing his blue-check engagement just enough for someone in India to make a living on has been a disaster for our public discourse. There are literally millions of people who are spreading propaganda and lies around the internet in attempts to make people angry, to get reshared, to get views, so nothing is off-limits to them, because they don’t have a stake in the future of the US and EU, they’re just working for food.
Yeah, people have to understand that right-wing politics considers science merely a tool to accumulate wealth and power. Thus right-wingers will not acknowledge that science pursues scientific truth, but rather insist that science that contradicts them must be a challenge to their interests that aims to embolden their political opponents and thus must be expunged.
“One last thing,” said Beatty. “At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh? Well, Montag, take my word for it, I’ve had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They’re about nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they’re fiction. And if they’re nonfiction, it’s worse, one professor calling another an idiot, one philosopher screaming down another’s gullet. All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost.”
Captain Beattys all.
That guy was way too articulate for someone who’s only read a handful of books.
Cancer? Just slap some beef tallow on that bad boy and you’ll be right as rain. See? Even Dr. Oz agrees!
It was already disproven the second it was claimed, by being made up with no credible data or research
No shit, Sherlock!
Think about what the resources going into this distraction could have investigated instead of doing this.
At the very least I hope all the promotion coming from these republican clowns supporting the filthy supplement industry will lead to more rigorous critical scientific inquiry into the garbage snake oil insanity that this industry has become. It’s no different than the unregulated advertising industry of the early 1900s where companies could say legally say their food products could cure illness and enhance performance.
They defunded promising cancer cure research for this.
They defunded all research in all diseases. In about 6 years, the pipelines will dry up and there will be no new drugs.
How about Ibuprofen? That is the one the doctors tell women to avoid when pregnant.
Ibuprofen isn’t a brand name so they won’t be able to manipulate the stock market.
Tylenol has generic alternative names.
They tanked the stock to buy low, and then come out with “it’s okay now” to make it go back up.
New study is the same as 20 older studies. Waste of time and money.
Meta-analyses are actually very important because they examine various studies and let us see whether their findings are consistent or not. It’s not that rare when such analyses shatter popular beliefs. Science is strong and useful precisely because we have such things.
In a sane world, you should be able to prosecute RFK for making or repeating lies. They would claim a defence that they were misinformed and not an expert in the field.
The precidence that needs to be set is that if you are appointed to a position of responsibility you are then automatically considered qualified in that field for the purpose of law.
Its either that, or break out the guillotines
:O
Studies? STUDIES?! WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING STUDIES!!
It was paid for by special interests or some shit
It never did, RFK just used his position to supercharge the myth and lower share prices long enough for Kimberly-Clark to acquire Kenvue.
Who has shares or ownership of Kimberly-Clark so that it helps RFK, Trump, or someone they know? And why didn’t they shut up about the autism thing after Nov so that the stock price would increase?
“Being open and honest about sexuality not linked with congenital heart disease, postulates preposterous paper”
This is also what the old studies said
Harmless painkiller doesn’t cause autism as expected. Wow! It’s a shame that this has to be news. Next week “Fruit consumed during pregnancy doesn’t cause autism”
