Tylenol Doesn’t Cause Autism

Asinus
Asinus
Nov 1 · 1 min read

Here’s the article headline, from the Google News preview:

Here’s the article headline, from inside the Daily Mail article itself:

And buried at the very end of the article, here’s these sentences:

“There is no clear indication from this study that the taking of acetaminophen causes problems… This type of uncontrolled study does not imply paracetamol use causes autism, as the reason for taking paracetamol may be the issue rather than the drug itself, and a mechanism for it to cause harm is not clear.”

TL;DR: Fake news, or clickbait. But you clicked on the article, so the Daily Mail’s cost-per-view advertisers got suckered out of another two cents.

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