• OTC Painkillers are the source of autism? Yeah, sure. What happened to vaccines being the main cause?🙄

    There’s still time in September for him to come back with more things. 🙄

    Theres a correlation between all the people that breathe air and drink water. All the people with autism have been breathing the air and drinking the water. Our administration is going to save the children and ban air and water.

    Its caused by di-hydrogen monoxide. There isn't a single person with autism that hasn't consumed it.

    Good call. That stuff is dangerous! People have died just by breathing it! Pfft, you wouldn't last more than a couple of minutes.

    Plus have you seen the withdrawal symptoms? Keep someone from taking it and their body literally starts shutting down. Hydric Acid is one of the worst addictions.

    I always say, life is a sexualy transmitted disease with 100% fatality rate.

    Yeah, so if Tylenol's the cause of autism.. then it can't be caused by vaccines right? So vaccines should be fine, then.

    I hate these people so much.

    It’s the ONE pain medicine safe for pregnant women so this is of course the one he picks to target. Tylenol, birth control and epidurals here we come… next on the chopping block.

  • Do you know just how many people take acetaminophen??? Why aren't autistic people the majority then? This world just keeps getting more ridiculous - I hate this timeline.

  • The original source is the WSJ:

    Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that pregnant women’s use of an over-the-counter pain medication is potentially linked to autism in a report that will also suggest a medicine derived from folate can be used to treat symptoms of the developmental disorder in some people, people familiar with the matter said.

    The report, expected this month from the Department of Health and Human Services, is likely to suggest as being among the potential causes of autism low levels of folate, an important vitamin, and Tylenol taken during pregnancy, people familiar with the matter said.

    For what it's worth, there is some evidence that children whose mothers took acetaminophen during pregnancy are more likely to be diagnosed with ASD and ADHD. Evidence regarding folate and ASD is much less consistent. In truth, neither of these is likely to be related to a large percentage of diagnoses.

    it’s the only painkiller you can take during pregnancy, there’s bound to be an association

    And unsurprisingly, now that various scientific bodies have spoken out, it's easy to see why they continue to support the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy.

    So for one thing, when I said that it wasn't likely to be related to a large percentage of pregnancies regardless, I was sort of downplaying it. Autism is extremely heritable, with most studies implying an 80-90% heritability. (But I found one that claimed a 98% match between homozygous twins!? It's weird what single studies will get you.) There are also a ton of studies suggesting links between autism and all sorts of different things. The unfortunate reality is that if you accumulate enough studies about a thing and see if they tend to support a link, they nearly always do. The effect size in these studies is really small, even if the p-value is low, which suggests that the effect might not be real and simply be due to bias. But anyway, if it is real, it's very small.

    This was just one thing picked out of a hat, sort of like declaring shrimp cause obesity. Could they? Conceivably. Is there any particular reason to think they cause more obesity than anything else? Definitely not.

    Even so, correlation not causation

  • And what about all those kids with autism that never have been given a OTC painkiller. My theory is the real culprit is it's all those holes countries are punching in the sky with their rockets going into space!

    I saw a doctor explain that they're going the route of women taking the otc meds while pregnant is what led to the child developing autism 🙄

    These maroons make me need some otc meds

    I know you’re being sarcastic, but the amount of chlorine put into the atmosphere every single time they do a rocket launch is horrendous and a serious problem that nobody wants to think about. Chlorine in the upper atmosphere is a serious ozone problem

    So is the exhaust coming out or jet engines 6 to 8 miles up!

    Rockets with solid propellants are the primary concern for upper atmospheric chlorine amounts, as their fuel releases chlorine directly into the stratosphere, where it depletes ozone. Jets, on the other hand, primarily contribute carbon dioxide and soot, with their impact on the ozone layer being minimal compared to solid rockets. While overall rocket chlorine emissions are currently small compared to historical ozone-depleting substances, their potential impact grows with increasing launch rates, especially with the rise of chlorine-emitting fuels for constellations

    I read that as well, with commercial aircraft as well as military aircraft worldwide there are over 100 million civilian flights per year and an equal number of military flights, so we are talking about a lot of exhaust dumped into the jet stream and that is a lot of carbon dioxide and soot.

  • OK my autistic friends, lawyer up!

  • This is a pretense to control women's bodies. If he can claim that an over-the-counter drug causes autism then the fascist regime and could come up with a reason to track women's periods because suddenly taking Tylenol is abuse. 

  • And this is why you do not hire a lawyer with no healthcare experience for a job that is all about healthcare

    You especially don't hire one that is already responsible for dead children due to antivax misinformation.

    He has a lot of history with things that are unhealthy, eating roadkill, heroin, swimming in sewage etc.

    Yet congress approved it with little to no pushback.

  • It's almost like he knew the public wouldn't buy it was vaccine so he just decided to throw a bunch of stuff into a hat and the first thing he pulled out would be who he blamed.

  • So this man just puts a hypothesis out there with no scientific proof- I say everyone should put forth a theory about autism with no scientific proof.

    Here’s my hypothesis, maybe they’ll put me on Faux News!

    My hypothesis is simple- autism is caused by the lack of a certain biological protein that’s released only during conception if the woman orgasms. The woman’s orgasm releases that biological protein that adheres to the zygote. No female orgasm=autism

    I so want to debate any of these idiots with my idiot hypothesis. Can you imagine RFK Jr.’s response to MY hypothesis?

    edit: changed theory to hypothesis

    Autism would be VASTLY more common if your theory were true lol

    Hypothesis not theory, only time it becomes a theory is once you can’t disprove it. You don’t prove hypothesis you disprove them. The reason for this is it makes it harder for frauds to fake it like the doctor that claimed that vaccines cause autism, his hypothesis was disproven once people attempted to replicate his results. Turns out he had been torturing the kids as well, which lead to him having his medical license stripped in the UK.

    Valid point, I’ll change the terminology :)

  • This is gonna be great for this fall when kids start getting seasonal viral illnesses and parents refuse to give them Tylenol. I’m sure a bunch will suffer unnecessarily (many from not getting vaccinated, not to mention not getting any Tylenol), while another bunch gets ibuprofen before their bodies are ready and suffer even more from the side effects. Can someone rid me of this meddlesome asshat?

  • Oh I thought it was vaccines.What next-Vitamin c???

  • Cool. So we can have vaccines back then?

  • It’s a Neurological Disorder that a person is born with……

  • So we can have our vaccines back again?

  • So...both my parents are neurodivergent, my cousin is level 3 autistic, I'm technically level 1 (found out in my 40s after years of trying to be normal), most of my family has ADHD diagnoses...one of my kids does, my other we're going to check. My other cousins as well. All of my aunts.

    Looking back at family albums and history....they were almost all extremely creative weirdos (engineers, artists, niche skilled trades, PhD recipients, criminals). They lived across multiple countries, regions within countries, different economic levels...only thing in common are genetics.

    But yes you QANON MAGA mouth breathing cousin f-cking racist sexist uneducated Christian nationalist f-cktards....it's pregnant women taking acetaminophen. This is nothing more than an excuse to oppress women by misrepresentation of science.

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  • I plan to ignore his ignorance.

  • The brain worms are grasping for straws...

  • The leading cause of autism is RFK

  • so now RFK is responsible for my headaches in more ways than one

  • So no vaccines and no over the counter meds.

    They want us poor, sick, desperate, and defeated.

  • Just say anything.

  • So saith the worm

  • Bobby’s suggestion (probably): Try heroin for pain relief . It helped him get better grades in College.

  • Who owns Tylenol? Seems Jr has a beef with them. Why don’t we study the effects PFAs more!?

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  • Why not, since he can make up his sources, the sky's the limit for this twit!

  • I hope he gets sued into an early grave.

  • What did these dipsh!ts do before they had a pedestal? scream at a mirror. FFS some humans have experienced devolution incredibly.

  • Ooh ok i know that one is bs, as a child i REFUSED pain meds growing up, and only started taking them in my early 20s when i needed to.

    Already had the tism before all that.

  • This guy needs the lobotomy they gave poor Rosemary

  • This is too sad. I say we Truman show his ass and say he fixed everything 

  • He is an embarrassment to the family name.

  • Sure Robert because educated scientists would have never come up with that in the years and years of research they've been doing

  • Says the guy who swims in raw sewage

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    Willow bark contains salicin which is similar to aspirin. Tylenol is different.

    Tylenol has been around since 1955. Asperger’s Syndrome, now acknowledged as a mild form of autism, was first described in 1944. It probably existed long before then. So they are blaming Tylenol for causing something before it was even invented.

  • Every day another stupid thing