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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    Weird how the famously autistic Temple Grandin had been alive for 8 years when Tylenol went on the market.

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    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

    Findings In this population-based study, models without sibling controls identified marginally increased risks of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) associated with acetaminophen use during pregnancy. However, analyses of matched full sibling pairs found no evidence of increased risk of autism (hazard ratio, 0.98), ADHD (hazard ratio, 0.98), or intellectual disability (hazard ratio, 1.01) associated with acetaminophen use.

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      Weird how the famously autistic Temple Grandin had been alive for 8 years when Tylenol went on the market.

      Acetaminophen has been out since the mid/late 1800’s.

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      I don’t know the background for the bullshit here, but I really doubt anyone is implying that it is the ONLY cause.

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      That is easily explained. Temple Grandin’s parents were time travelers from the future where Tylenol existed, making Temple also a time traveler as a baby to have a birthdate recorded 8 years prior to Tylenol’s release to the market. /s