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Pregnant women in ERs took less Tylenol after Trump autism warning (www.npr.org)

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Trump told pregnant women in September 2025 to avoid Tylenol because taking it would increase their babies' risk of autism: "Taking Tylenol is not good — I'll say it: It's not good."

Doctors and scientists quickly said the data didn't support the president's claim, but emergency room orders for Tylenol, or acetaminophen, for pregnant patients went down 10% in the months that followed, according to a new study in The Lancet. There was no change in the acetaminophen orders for comparable women who weren't pregnant.

"It happened overnight," says Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who led the study. The president's words "had an immediate impact on how much Tylenol or acetaminophen was being ordered in emergency departments."

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[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

As an autistic person who has spent quite a bit of time thinking about and researching autism because I really wanted to understand, the people who act on this shit are fucking ignorant morons. Autism is genetic, and more than just being a part of human diversity seems to be a fundamental part of being human, to the extent that if there were no autistic people there would be no humans at all. Autism is neurological specialization, and appears to be one of the core features of humanity that allowed us to achieve our dominance over the earth. There's even some relatively recent research suggesting it's directly the result of the genetic changes that lead to our extreme intelligence, so if you were able to "cure" autism by removing those genes from the population, you'd also make humanity dramatically stupider, which would have unimaginable consequences for the species. Thinking fucking aspirin of all things has any impact at all on the fundamental nature of humanity is delusional at best and suggests a prelude to genocide at worst. It's just so fucking mind bogglingly ignorant and stupid for people to believe this shit.