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pat_k

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4. Apparently, he and his bogus board are incapable of grasping the concept that correlation is not causation.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 08:24 PM
9 hrs ago

Like the big announcement on 9/22/2025 that they found the "cause" of autism. Namely, Acetaminophen (which sort of contradicts that the cause is vaccines, but leaving that aside for the moment).

Yeah, sure, there was a meta-analysis in May 2021 that found a correlation. And they pointed to that study as the pretense for their announcement that they found "the cause" in Sept 2025.

Remember, RFK, Jr. promised to find the cause of autism by September, so when they had made no more progress than decades of legitimate research had, they resurrected that study for their big announcement. See, we said we'd find the cause by September, and lo and behold, we did!!!

The only problem is that a massive, landmark sibling-comparison study published in JAMA in April 2024 demonstrated that the correlation between prenatal acetaminophen use and autism is not causal.

That study, disproving the so-called "cause" announced with much fanfare was published a year before the lunatic RFK, Jr. made his promise that he would find the cause by Sept.

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