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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Hey, I know reading comprehension may not be your thing and this is certainly not my fight. I will break it down one more time for clarity.

RFK claims it CAUSES Autism. He does not claim merely it increases the risk.

This meme stated quite logically that if it is the cause of Autism and Autism existed before the medication use was widespread, then clearly it does not cause Autism.

Obviously it does not cause Autism, in fact I doubt it is even a risk factor for it. This is pseudo science bullshit that is being used to sell made up "treatments".

Frankly, people that are having a hard time with this are playing devil's advocate, misinformed, or are MAHA.

So what part of this are you not "getting"

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm wondering if they saw the research that shows paracetamol reduces empathy and just jumped straight to autism

E.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6455058/

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That is some interesting research. I had heard it in passing, but I want to read more about it. Thanks!

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey, reading comprehension isn't an issue. Not gonna read past that though since you started out by stating that you're a massive douchebag. Probably just kept hammering that home, anyway.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, just going to block you now.