Kennedy: not enough data to show Tylenol causes autism

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10. Acetaminophen as a causal factor for the slight correlation in population data was RULED OUT in sibling studies.

I think all the bullshit about Tylenol/Acetaminophen as the cause for autism all came about because:

1. Bobbie promised to announce the cause of autism by September. Based on no evidence, he firmly believed the cause would be vaccines.

2. After being presented with actual data, RFK's vaccine commission, or study group, or whatever the shills are called, backed off voting on changing guidance on vaccines because a few of them noticed that they actually had absolutely no basis on which to make the changes they were happily planning to make.

3. They are stuck. No cause of autism to announce, and here it is September.

4. Presto! A review is published by Harvard showing a slight statistical association between prenatal Tylenol use and autism. (While noting that the finding is a correlation, not evidence of cause.)

5. Trump declares "We'll have a big announcement Monday."

6. Monday comes and he announces: Hey, we know the cause of autism. It's aceta acet a a Tylenol.

Doesn't matter to them that the notion that the association was causal had already been ruled out by sibling studies that controlled for confounding factors (and RFK is so confounded by everything, he is incapable of grasping the concept of confounding factors in a scientific study).