Hey look, it’s big pharma not properly testing stuff and lobbying politicians to sell their shit over the counter.
Monday August 25, 2025
Drug has link to autism
The world's most popular painkiller may put children at risk of ADID and autism, experts have warned.
Paracetamol is a common medication used by millions of youngsters and adults to treat mild symptoms from colds to headaches.
But new data has claimed the painkiller could be linked to autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Experts at Mount Sinai and Harvard's School of Public Health conducted their research using more than 100,000 people and 46 case studies. The team reviewed which stage of pregnancy mothers took paracetamol and compared it to their subsequent medical records.
Their findings concluded expectant mothers should take the painkiller "for the shortest" period possible, and at the "lowest effective dose"
"Ultimately, the obtained scores suggest strong evidence of a likely relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and increased risk of ADHD in children," scientists wrote in the journal Environmental Health. "This includes high-quality studies that provide very strong evidence of an association and studies that provide strong evidence of an association.
ETA: Link to journal mentioned in article: https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01208-0
Edit: holy cow with the downvotes. I took the picture today with my phone camera. The ones bitching about the source: it’s fcking Harvard. The ones claiming later pregnancies have higher risk clearly don’t need to provide any sources for their claims. And together with !fuck_ai@lemmy.world you can enjoy one less subscriber.
Are we still doing this? Haven't we already figured out that it has a partially genetic component that's more likely to be active when the mother gets pregnant later in life.
Edit: Anyone else getting AI vibes when zooming in on the image? The distortion is wierd and there's nothing on the page to the right.
No. That literally doesn't make any sense. It would be easier to copy and paste AI generated text into a word processor, hit print, and take a picture.
That would require aibros to actually do work rather than have the machine do everything. :P
It is genetic
It has nothing to do with the parents choices
Don’t know about AI, but as an amateur typographer, I noticed that the typeface is weird; for example the lower case letters “p” and “t” are inconsistent, and the “fi” ligatures are odd. It doesn’t look like a photo of a paper article, and using an image editor to warp the text to simulate a magazine page wouldn’t distort the letters in that particular way. It’s an odd way to present the text, and I can’t work out why anyone would do that.
All of the serifs and punctuation look weird, and the way the text on the page behind bleeds through into the last paragraph is really odd too. Good catch on the page to the right being apparently empty!
It could be some issue with AI upscaling, but it's rapidly becoming more and more the case that we just can't trust anything online. Very disheartening.
Time to turn it all off and (maybe some day in the future) back on again 🤷♂️
It's a photograph of a physical page that has been converted to black and white and had the mid-tones and dark-tones darkened, probably to compensate for the bottom of the page being lighter in the photo than the top.
This is why you have that odd situation of the text on the previous page bleeding through on that one spot - it's just at the threshold and is being darkened disproportionately compared to the rest.
I have to take photos of documents for work every now and then and hit these exact same issues when cleaning them up.
As for the blank page - I think it's just a wide margin. If you zoom right into the top corner, you can just see a few black pixels where the text is starting.
Well done, all that + some skewing as the picture was taken at a sharp angle. My god. 70% downvotes, and 70% of the comments about the form not the content.
It may be time to say goodbye to this platform too. Unbelievable.
I could see it being mid-tone/shadows adjustments, true.
~~I'm particularly appalled by the lack of sourcing… no name for the newspaper, no researches, no institute, no research paper. Nothing. Just words claiming something. To me, this is unscientific and useless.~~
Edit: nvm, too stupid to read atm. I'd need to look if I can find this paper but I doubt it's existence as there are little specifics.
Ah yes the classic keyboard critic claiming AI, and then throwing an unsubstantiated claim of their own without any source.