Using Tylenol(acetaminophen) during pregnancy may increase children’s autism and ADHD risk
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Yeah…
That climate change example was a bit of a stretch. I was just highlighting how easy it is to mislead people with part of the picture, rather than the whole ugly mess.I still think that omitting studies into the cause of ADHD that don’t include Tylenol is misrepresenting the data.
If there are 1000 studies into the cause of ADHD, and only 50 mention Tylenol, then omitting the other 950 is dishonest. Let’s say 25 of the 50 find a correlation, then 25/50 is way different to 25/1000! That’s where I see the P-hacking.
Thanks for being civil, too.
Of course! It’s always refreshing to engage with someone with good intentions.
So, this would only be a misrepresentation if the authors were claiming to look for causes of Autism.
Good science is based on testing a hypothesis. ‘What causes X’ is not a testable hypothesis, it’s too broad, the variables aren’t defined. ‘Does Y effect X?’ is a testable hypothesis, and a solid basis for initial research.
The question of ‘what causes autism’ is a huge one that can’t be answered by a single study. Each potential factor needs to be evaluated on its own merit, and this study does exactly that (with admittedly questionable results).
However, something like the recent HHS report is exactly the place where it’s wildly irresponsible to present only one potential hypothesis as a ‘cause’. That’s where we would expect a high level view of a range of established factors (since obviously there is no one ‘cause’).
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this is originally from may, and passed review in june. idk how related it is to the current nonsense.
June? So when RFK promised to find the cause of autism?
