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There's never been any evidence of anything singularly, conclusively being linked to autism, which is what's left so much room open for conspiratory nutcases and bored housewives to "do their own research" and come up with their own fantastic fairy magic stories.
It wouldn't matter WHAT the administration said, people are going to believe what they're going to believe.
What's funny though, is the fact that RFK and Trump didn't explicitly call out vaccines, the go-to anti-science grift everyone is using, made a lot of people on the right really mad. It should make for a clear indicator that the whole thing is a scam and a grift, but unfortunately conservative minds don't work that way, and it will just make the vaccine-fearful even more fearful.
Rfk was trying to say Trump should get the peace prize for the covid vaccine.
So, despite all of their vax bashing, I think he's still cooking that scheme and don't want to pin autism on it right now.
oh, that explains it! I was wondering why the sudden shift in scapegoat
If they had tried to link autism to vaccines, they would have had to show some evidence to support it. They do not have any evidence to support the claim that vaccines cause autism.
But there isn't evidence linking autism to Tylenol either, right?
There is a correlation between mothers who take tylenol while pregnant and children who develop autism in some studies.
But it could be just as likely that autism is both hereditary and comorbid with other painful diseases like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, mom is also autistic but from a generation that doesn't get diagnosed, and she's also in pain and taking tylenol, and her kid gets autism because of genetics and not tylenol.
There's also a correlation between mothers who breathe air while pregnant and children who develop autism. And sometimes even children who don't!
An article from last April in JAMA also compared between a no-control cohort and a sibling-control cohort. When a control is there for comparison, the potential correlation goes away meaning it's just as likely any findings are confounded anyway.
That was shit, underpowered science that should never have been funded or published. A proper Swedish study of 2.5 million proves, without a doubt, no correlation.
Granting agencies and universities need to get their shit together and teach epidemiologists how to do proper science because at this point, it's pretty close to psychology.
All people with autism, also had mothers who consumed water during their pregnancy... Did water cause autism?
At this point, it's almost a certainty that this is the case, possibly activated by environmental influences during pregnancy. However, none of the influences have been identified, as there's (Last I looked) about 30 separate DNA sequences that are related to autism in people.
For what it's worth... there's about the same number of DNA sequences involved in someone requiring corrective lenses.
No but gimme five minutes in excel and I could get you some.
It might take then 50.
Being really good at trains has been conclusively linked to autism.
Behind closed doors, they probably are beginning to understand that it would be a public health disaster if they actually removed access to vaccines so Tylenol is a more innocuous scapegoat. I always avoided it because problems with alcohol interaction. In reality the culprit is more likely to be heavy pesticide use enabled by gmo roundup resistant crops.