Wait, 500mg Tylenol is "extra strength"? Dafalgan Forte is 1g.

That is the problem. The language of science versus the understanding of the language is science by the wilfully ignorant and shockingly stupid.

"There's is no conclusive evidence..."

"So there is evidence!"

The most extensive study of acetaminophen use by pregnant women following 2.4 million women showed NO EVIDENCE OF ANY LINK BETWEEN TYLENOL/PARACETAMOL USE AND AUTISM.

The science/medical community needs to dumb it down for the dumbth.

If this shit caused autism then a stupid massive amount of gen Z and gen A would be autistic... which they aren't...

I'm so sick of this misinformation circulating about RFK having a worm in his brain. He had a worm in his brain. It died because RFK's thoughts are that toxic.

Honestly if Tylenol is smart they'll wait for the administration to get it out of their system and then bring the lawsuit, maximize the amount of dumbfuck statements so as to make the case as strong as possible.

found funny the antivaxx community got offended with Trump for the baseless Tylenol claims

Exactly this... I'm so tired of shoddy "journalism".

You mean autistic people…are human? 🤯

Imagine thinking neurotypes are binary and not a gradient of human experiences. Imagine also thinking one swath of neurotypes is a disease and not also simply part of said human experience.

These are also the same jackasses who think only one sleep pattern is “correct” despite..well, history, but that’s a separate rant.

Many countries avoid acetaminophen for good medical reasons related to liver damage. But no way will a xenophobic country take lessons from another country.

They didn't. Crackhead Kennedy just needs a scapegoat and that's the correlation during that time period. Trumps making America weaker but himself stronger

Did you know that if you get a blood transfusion and the donor is trans, you're exposed to enough hormones that you can become trans too? It's way too dangerous to get a blood transfusion these days. /s

(Using this as an example specifically because I know trans people who were turned away from giving blood in the first place, including a trans girl I used to date. She was assumed to have a significantly more risky sexual history than she actually did, and I'm also negative for HIV)

Paracetamol is safe. It's that acetaminophen that you have to avoid! /s

Had to Google because I've wondered why but never actually looked into it, and so in case anyone else also hasn't:

Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1852): This French chemist is sometimes credited with being the first to synthesize the compound, though this is debated.

Harmon Northrop Morse (1878): Morse, an American chemist, is also cited for first preparing the compound. However, the discovery was not pursued for medicinal purposes at the time.

I haven't gone further than that because I'm going to be late to work, really pushing the limit today, but something I'm definitely interested in looking into.

Regardless, the drug name is N-acetyl-para-aminophenol, and so both Names™ are in there. Stupid! Although paracetamol is kinda stretching it.

Let's just call it N-tylol. Jesus that's how they came up with Tylenol.

America is the only country that allows direct to consumer drug marketing.

There's a correlation, but not a causal link.

For example, lets say... A certain virus, that has a fever and headache as a symptom. If a pregnant woman contracts said virus, she likely will take acetaminophen for it.

Now, let's also say, that particular virus can cause the markers responsible for autism to activate.

So, since the virus is unknown, the only correlation we see is the acetaminophen use, while pregnant.

Did the unknown (yet) virus cause it, or did the acetaminophen use cause it?

This is a study in mice, using the word "likely" here is a stretch. And the discussion is specifically about links to autism, not developmental problems generally.

I haven't looked at the other links, but the first study was funded by WPLab, Inc.

WPLab, Inc just so happens to run https://www.preventautism.org/, so I can already see several biases at play, which could influence the conclusions drawn by such a study.

It's been know for decades that NSAIDs and acetaminophen are more dangerous then the pharmaceutical companies want us to think. They are the cause of the most overdose deaths in America (legal drugs).

To find a causal relationship between acetaminophen and autism will likely never happen, but a correlation is worth paying attention to. If people are telling you it's perfectly safe, they're confused or lying to you. There's no free lunch. Everything has a cost.

Mouse studies don't apply to human studies that way.

Yay! We like the bit of science we do, and I'm glad if it's getting some trust.

Honestly, I think America will soon just ignore the federal CDC and move to heed the California CDC as the sole source of actual medical guidance.

I sincerely doubt that's an accident.

Still makes sense to cross-check information with other health agencies outside the US.

If a flat earther becomes POTUS and attempts to implement policies to legitimize flat earth, it's not a waste of resources to use NASA to deny the President's claims.