Officials will also tout the drug leucovorin as a potential autism treatment, in what President Donald Trump has billed as a “very important” announcement.

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I’ve got no idea what the alleged evidence for this is, but what I do know is that the people making these announcements are completely untrustworthy.

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    I think the point is that it can cause serious damage/death if you take too much… Which is maybe a bit unique among OTC medications specifically

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          Which is maybe a bit unique among OTC medications specifically

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            “a bit”

            But I suppose I was listening to something on NPR a few months ago where someone complained about describing things with varying degrees of uniqueness (eg, “a bit”) because unique is technically a binary descriptor. Something I learned in that moment and apparently forgot soon after.