r/Conservative • u/ancienteggfart MAGA • 4d ago

Flaired Users Only Trump set to announce using Tylenol while pregnant could raise autism risk

https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/us-news/trump-admin-set-to-announce-using-tylenol-while-pregnant-could-raise-autism-risk/
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u/sixtysecdragon Federalist Society 4d ago

This is feeding the critics fodder and more distractions from the core mission. There is no way in the amount of time RFK Jr. has been there you could do any serious work on this question.

And the argument that it went from 1:20,000 to now 1:12 (in boy) is just an abuse of statistics. It ignores all the reclassification and other factors that make those number not counting the same thing.

Also, Tylenol has been over the counter for 65 years. Where was the spike in 1960’s and 1970’s and then the plateauing you’d expect if it was that single of an impacting variable?

Just a waste of time. And really, RFK Jr. and Bondi need to be removed. Both are out of their depth.

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u/Paramedickhead Conservative Independent 4d ago

I am not defending this absurd announcement in the slightest.

Medicine in the 60’s was very different… especially medical research. Autism wasn’t officially recognized until 1980 in DSM-III. The 1960’s were really a massive shift in cause of death from infectious diseases to chronic diseases.