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[โ€“] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 162 points 2 months ago (18 children)

puts on logic glasses

Oh look, another brilliant mind discovered that autism was identified before Tylenol existed, so obviously Tylenol can't cause autism. That's like saying cancer existed before radiation therapy, therefore radiation can't cause cancer. Peak necessity/sufficiency confusion right here - apparently conditions can only have one cause and medical recognition equals temporal origin.

But hey, let's ignore that Swedish study of 2.5 million kids that found zero causal link when they actually controlled for confounding variables using sibling comparisons. Or those other high-quality studies that show the association completely disappears once you account for genetics and family environment. Who needs actual science when you have timeline gotchas?

Meanwhile pregnant women might avoid the safest pain reliever available because some politician decided to manufacture outrage for political points. But at least someone gets to feel intellectually superior about their logical fallacy meme.

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[โ€“] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Hmm, i don't like your tone, but you are correct. ASD has a heritability greater than 80% which is higher than blood pressure and the same as human height. It's a genetic disorder.

Also, when was it necessary to differentiate ASD from schizophrenia? The age of onset of schizophrenia is around 18-21 and autism is present practically from birth (apparent 1-3 years). I think OP is wrongly interpreting the Kraepelinian dichotomy which is about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

[โ€“] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, the OP's argument becomes nil when it's based on such a basic fallacy, I mean c'mon. Temporal precedence โ‰  causal impossibility.

And since autism-as-symptom existed in 1911 but autism-as-disorder wasn't differentiated until later, the meme's temporal logic becomes even more meaningless. lol

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