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Posted by amichail 12/28/2025

Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains(medicine.yale.edu)
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ijustwork 12/29/2025||
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mapontosevenths 12/29/2025||
This was studied because it sounds reasonable on paper and several small studies showed a small link.

However, they did a very large cohort study with hundreds of thousands of subjects. The link completely disappears when genetics are accounted for via sibling pairs.[0]

It took almost two whole minutes of Googling for me to disprove this nonsense. Which shows that RFK did less than 2 minutes worth of research before panicking the world.

[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

SubiculumCode 12/29/2025|||
I will say that this study presented a major challenge to the tylenol hypothesis. To my mind, there is still a remote possibility that the tylenol hypotehsis might just be relevant to a smaller subset of autistic individuals...but I am coming from the general outlook of believing autism needs to be subtyped when looking at etiology.
mapontosevenths 12/29/2025||
Personally, I very much agree. I feel that while the idea of a spectrum wasn't a mistake, it was only a start.
api 12/29/2025|||
But did you check the vibes?
mapontosevenths 12/29/2025||
I did, but I'm on the spectrum so I failed the vibe check. ;)
tomerico 12/29/2025|||
Didn’t whole internet get angry for Trump’s administration publishing a warning that Tylenol during pregnancy may cause autosim?
ijustwork 12/29/2025|||
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mapontosevenths 12/29/2025|||
Anything claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
perching_aix 12/29/2025|||
> propaganda mouthpieces

Bit rich coming from a sockpuppet account created 57 minutes ago...

- exclusively commenting on this thread

- uncritically addressing it from a very specific angle

- mentioning specific things that sound related while not actually connecting them to the overall story with the same rigor

...isn't it?

MangoToupe 12/29/2025|||
Can you explain the logical leap you're making here? Unless this is RFK Jr we're talking to, you're comparing two wildly different contexts.
ijustwork 12/29/2025||
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MangoToupe 12/29/2025||
The logical leap
ijustwork 12/29/2025||
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diydsp 12/29/2025||
The vaccine autism hoax is traced back to one specific discredired researcher:

https://time.com/5175704/andrew-wakefield-vaccine-autism/

ijustwork 12/29/2025||
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muglug 12/29/2025|||
Please don’t use a bunch of traumatised parents as a medical reference either. The science is extremely clear that Wakefield was a bad scientist — see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudulent_Lancet_MMR_vaccine-...
slater 12/29/2025|||
please don't use "many parents" as a medical reference
tryscience 12/29/2025||
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mapontosevenths 12/29/2025|
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406
truseek 12/29/2025||
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wizzwizz4 12/29/2025|
Re-posting a flagged and dead comment under a new account is not acceptable behaviour. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416138
try2stopme 12/29/2025||
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slater 12/29/2025|
stop already with the sockpuppet accounts
Hnrobert42 12/28/2025||
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gchamonlive 12/29/2025||
It would also be interesting if there's no link to be found.
Hnrobert42 1/3/2026||
Of course. That's what I expect.
lez 12/29/2025||
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Uptrenda 12/29/2025||
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gerdesj 12/29/2025||
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