You don't get the point, Emil. The goal is to avoid people having to admit that it's something in their genetic makeup that caused their kid to not be the perfect child they wanted. Please note the unwillingness to look at the most probable environmental factor for "autism"; having your children when older.
No way anyone can say the increase in autism is solely due to looser diagnostic criteria. It certainly is a factor but I don't think any honest informed person would claim its solely that - indeed it seems very, very unlikely. The evidence presented by Kennedy and the CDC does overall suggest a possible link to Tylenol emerging from the majority of studies. The study you cite did not after using controls. The controls did make it somewhat stronger on its own compared to the other correlational studies, but it is only one study and controls can sometimes produce misleading results. The obvious conclusion from the research we have so far is that the evidence overall does suggest a possible link and that caution in using Tylenol during pregnancy is eminently sensible -- and this is exactly what the CDC report concluded. Your report on this is seriously misleading and irresponsible.
Changing diagnostic criteria and changing incentives for being diagnosed with autism plus "the autism economy" plus the empathy cult. And a failing educational system (What percentage of the class needs to be diasgnosed with ADHD/ASD until we start to ask if class is boring and meaningless?). And sensorimotor debilities in digital cultures. The problem should be modeled by multiple interacting values.
What do you mean there are plenty of alternatives? For pregnant women in the US, Tylenol is the only pain killer cleared with the FDA. Others are schedule C at best
I'm sure that you are correct that definitional changes are part of the rise in Autism. But this substack post - https://www.malone.news/p/autism-what-we-know?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web - has a number of papers that do find links between paracetamol and autism and other related neurodevelopmental disorders . There is even a method proposed where paracetamol impacts the Folate Receptor Antibody.
I dont think Citing a single swedish register study is sufficient to discredit their findings.
Autism has been linked to paracetamol in quite a lot of studies. From what i gathered the most important study for Kennedys FDA desition was the following meta-analysys. Its quite clear that a majority of studies finds a link.
Another one they mentioned as a key finding was a study looking at of tylenol use in women on and of pregnency. Which showed that that tylenol use was only associated with increased risk if used during pregnancy. If no link then it should have been the same.
In the US, there definitely has been an autism epidemic, but it has nothing to do with Tylenol ...when I was in school there was zero autism ...the term was unknown..But with the advent of a massive vaccine schedule, it took off...When I was teaching, we had a number of kids with neurological problems, some of them quite bright...SIDS also accelerated...The CDC has known for decades that the cause was almost certainly Vaccines....
I'm glad you have taken the empirical stand on this autism issue. The most likely reason for the appearance of an increase in autism rates is the broadening of the diagnostic spectrum.
You don't get the point, Emil. The goal is to avoid people having to admit that it's something in their genetic makeup that caused their kid to not be the perfect child they wanted. Please note the unwillingness to look at the most probable environmental factor for "autism"; having your children when older.
I think we’re breeding for it.
No way anyone can say the increase in autism is solely due to looser diagnostic criteria. It certainly is a factor but I don't think any honest informed person would claim its solely that - indeed it seems very, very unlikely. The evidence presented by Kennedy and the CDC does overall suggest a possible link to Tylenol emerging from the majority of studies. The study you cite did not after using controls. The controls did make it somewhat stronger on its own compared to the other correlational studies, but it is only one study and controls can sometimes produce misleading results. The obvious conclusion from the research we have so far is that the evidence overall does suggest a possible link and that caution in using Tylenol during pregnancy is eminently sensible -- and this is exactly what the CDC report concluded. Your report on this is seriously misleading and irresponsible.
Changing diagnostic criteria and changing incentives for being diagnosed with autism plus "the autism economy" plus the empathy cult. And a failing educational system (What percentage of the class needs to be diasgnosed with ADHD/ASD until we start to ask if class is boring and meaningless?). And sensorimotor debilities in digital cultures. The problem should be modeled by multiple interacting values.
What do you mean there are plenty of alternatives? For pregnant women in the US, Tylenol is the only pain killer cleared with the FDA. Others are schedule C at best
I'm sure that you are correct that definitional changes are part of the rise in Autism. But this substack post - https://www.malone.news/p/autism-what-we-know?r=7yrqz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web - has a number of papers that do find links between paracetamol and autism and other related neurodevelopmental disorders . There is even a method proposed where paracetamol impacts the Folate Receptor Antibody.
To me, Malone is a self-serving hack.
That may or may not be true. TBH I pay limited attention to him so have no view.
However he lists 3 or 4 papers not written by him that link paracetamol and autism etc.
Can’t believe this even has to be stated 😑
What good alternatives are available?
I dont think Citing a single swedish register study is sufficient to discredit their findings.
Autism has been linked to paracetamol in quite a lot of studies. From what i gathered the most important study for Kennedys FDA desition was the following meta-analysys. Its quite clear that a majority of studies finds a link.
https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01208-0
Another one they mentioned as a key finding was a study looking at of tylenol use in women on and of pregnency. Which showed that that tylenol use was only associated with increased risk if used during pregnancy. If no link then it should have been the same.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30923825/
In the US, there definitely has been an autism epidemic, but it has nothing to do with Tylenol ...when I was in school there was zero autism ...the term was unknown..But with the advent of a massive vaccine schedule, it took off...When I was teaching, we had a number of kids with neurological problems, some of them quite bright...SIDS also accelerated...The CDC has known for decades that the cause was almost certainly Vaccines....
What cheap OTC alternatives are there for pregnant women?
Great article, Emil.
I'm glad you have taken the empirical stand on this autism issue. The most likely reason for the appearance of an increase in autism rates is the broadening of the diagnostic spectrum.