packgrad said:
Civilized said:
Very plausible explanation of the Tylenol "announcement."
Keep hyperventilating, Civ. You totally care about the science, not just your mental illness.
What are you even talking about?
The literal release from the FDA yesterday said no causal link has been established.
What they have is a correlational finding from observational studies (i.e. not randomized control studies which would obviously be unethical in this circumstance).
Instead of politicizing it or being nasty when I don't do the same to you, just stick to the facts.
There is a correlation between Tylenol use by pregnant women and autism (which has been known for years). Some studies claim the effects are dose-dependent; however there are many confounders and confounding studies (including a study from Sweden that captured 2.5 million Swedish children born over 25 years that established no association between acetaminophen and autism.)
There is also a correlation between fevers in pregnant women and autism. Several large studies have observed that the strongest link appears for fevers in the second trimester, and that the risk for autism increases with the number of fever episodes and appears more pronounced with severe or sustained fevers.
Agreed?
ETA: My biggest issue here, far and away is the presentation of this information as an OMG AHA WE FOUND IT moment, which does past science, pregnant women, and the autism community a huge disservice.