Since no one else has pointed it out in the replies: In addition to being torture devices, these also are unsafe for air (or any other) travel, as they immobilize. There's no putting on your oxygen mask or using your seat cushion as a flotation device.

Share deets, we need a NOLA trip someday

(I sincerely don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not)

No, you don't understand, that's a handcrafted, artisanal literature degree. It will be worth millions in a few short years.
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I haven't!

The news appearance: cnycentral.com/news/local/p...

(more later, prepping for a local news appearance!)

You know what severe fevers are known to cause? Brain damage & death. It's dangerous to tell pregnant people and children not to take any fever reducers (he tells people, don't take Tylenol or any others like aspirin and Advil because they're "bad"!). That's how you get more disability & death. /11

IF prenatal fevers are a driver for autism (more on the causes of autism later), then not taking a fever-reducer line Tylenol would cause MORE AUTISM. /10

Essentially the very limited research suggesting a CORRELATION doesn't prove causation by failing to account for the factors leading to taking Tylenol during pregnancy, like fever, which does have some correlation (again, not necessarily causation) with developmental disorders. /9

Correlation is conflated with causation again with the accusations that Tylenol causes autism in utero. Autism Science Foundation released a good statement on this.

autismsciencefoundation.org/press_releas... /8

It's not that Cuban and Amish people aren't autistic; it's that they haven't been assessed for autism in the same way that the (rest of the US) population has been. Research on autism outside the US, and the Anglophonic world more broadly, is SEVERELY lacking, as is (culturally competent) care. 7/

Correlation does not imply causation, but that's exactly what he tries to do anyway by claiming that autism virtually doesn't exist in Cuba and in Amish communities. He does not account for the ways that research can't confidently claim these things because there's no evidence to support it. 6/

Lack of access, as well as lack of access to culturally competent care, are major drivers here. 5/?

He also doesn't mention race, but researchers estimate that, in the US, Black and Latine folks experience autism at a rate equal to white folks. But they're wildly underdiagnosed due to medical racism, though the CDC (2023) has noted that rates are finally starting to increase. 4/?

He blessedly doesn't mention trans people, but we're 4.1 to 17.5 more likely to be autistic than cis people (Strang et al, 2018). 3/?