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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, in a few years, insurance companies will deny all autism coverage by saying they shouldn’t have to pay for treatments because mom intentionally gave her kid autism by taking Tylenol. Mothers of autistic kids will be pariahs.[/quote]
What will they do with me? I have fraternal twins. One has autism and the other is neurotypical. Did all of the Tylenol only go to one baby?[/quote]

I’m also an autism parent. I hope your family is doing well and that you all are hanging in there. I say this with respect and compassion, but it’s odd to me that your experience leads you to parody people positing an environmental component. Plenty of people will say that autism “is genetic,” insinuating (or even outright saying) that whether a child has autism follows ineluctably from that child’s genes, when, in fact, the experience of twins (including monozygotic twins) shows that it surely is much more complicated than that. [/quote]
You’re making my point. We haven’t pinpointed the exact cause(s) of autism. It’s so much more complicated than whether mom took Tylenol during pregnancy. They have no peer reviewed research that backs up their premise. This press conference was a bunch of misleading malarkey.

There are women who are pregnant right now, who took Tylenol yesterday or last week or last month and these nincompoops are frightening those women unnecessarily. What the Trump administration is doing is so wrong.[/quote]

[b]You don’t need to pinpoint causes to discuss them.[/b] There are surely multiple causes. They should all be identified. I’m sure this is frightening to some parents, but if it is scientifically valid, it should come out. [/quote]
To call something a “cause” of autism, you have to have established that scientifically. Otherwise, you’re not talking about causes; you’re talking about [i]potential[/i] causes. No link has been established between acetaminophen during pregnancy and children born of that pregnancy having autism. We can’t call Tylenol use a cause.  [/quote]

You must be one of the lawyers who haunt this message board :-). This isn’t some semantic sport about the meaning of the world “cause,” but if you listened to the press conference, you would have heard that the number and strength of studies pointing to an association is substantial enough that at least some Harvard academics have concluded that there is a causal connection. [/quote]

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