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Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol

arstechnica.com Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol

“THIS WAS NOT CAUSED BY TYLENOL” Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group retweeted.

"We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer," anti-vaccine group Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice wrote in an unhinged Facebook post on Monday morning. "If that's all we hear - is that the end? Not thimerosal. Not aluminum. Not MMR. Not Hep B. Not the insane schedule pushed after pharma got liability protection. Are we supposed to just forget?"

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Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol

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Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol

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Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol

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Don't worry, next week the world's healthiest man will blame something else.
- The guy so healthy he bathes in sewer water just to bring himself to normal levels? Or the guy so healthy he had to pay off a doctor to come up with a condition so he wouldn't fight in the military because it would make others look bad?
  
  Or the guy so healthy his liver needs to be depressed constantly for fear it would destroy him otherwise? Or...

"We wanted the wrong answer to be our wrong answer!"

Somebody's uncomfortable at the thought of it being a genetic disorder, because that would mean losing the ability to blame someone else. I wonder how their children feel about their parents being like this.
- Imagine someone you love working so hard to find a reason for the way you are.
  
  Imagine that the parents are also autistic and in denial.....
- There's a lot worse parents do to autistic children. This doesn't even register for me.
  -autistic person
- Nah, they're fine with eugenics.

Johnson & Johnson is a giant corporation with billions of dollars and I don't think they're gonna take defamation about one of their biggest products well.
- They must have forgotten to pay the monthly fee to the great leader.
  
  Johnson & Johnson deeply regrets skipping last protection payment to the Trump regime
- They had already spun off the brand as a separate company that was already not doing well.
  https://fortune.com/2025/07/14/kenvue-leadership-shakeup-new-ceo-activist-investors-neutrogena-tylenol-motrin-sudafed/
  
  Wow, this is definitely not planned to sifon money from political activists.

My mom took an advil in 1982 and now I’m a gay liberal removed.
- Congrats on finally coming out!
- We're called Tylenol-Americans.
- SMH my head how could Reagan's Dementia do this???

I love this conclusion.
On the one side, the Antivaxxers are pissed off. This alone is a great thing. Their hero and saint, their big hope basically bins them. Good.
On the other side, that Tylenol idea is easily debunkable. And I hope the brand owner Kenvue sues that administration to Kingdom Come for that. Autism is known since 1911, Tylenol is on the market since 1955. Even the dumbest of the MAGA-heads might notice that there is something wrong with that timeline.
- Paracetamol aka acetaminophen, has been around since the 1800s. Tylenol as a brand has only been around since 1955.
  So while we all know this link is bullshit, the 1911 defence falls apart based on facts.
  I think a better response is show me a peer reviewed study from actual researchers who follow actual scientific methodology and have not had to be retracted.
  
  I mean, it also falls apart when you consider leukemia is older than smokable tobacco, or that death by falling is older than airplanes, but still. No, Tylenol doesn't cause autism, but things being older than other things does not mean anything with regards to increased risk.
  
  Pear reviewed, pear reviewed, I get my info from my apple.
  
  No. It was not developed until the 50's
- Autism is known since 1911, Tylenol is on the market since 1955.
  I've seen that meme float around a LOT, and it's faulty.
  Let's sharpen our thinking in-house first before we argue versus conservatives.
  There's a big difference between "the rapid growth of autism cases is lead by Tylenol usage" and "autism is caused single-handedly by Tylenol"
  You can bet every conservative who drinks the Kool aid will say that rfk is claiming the former, which isn't disproved by Tylenol being invented after autism cases.
- That's why there's no autism in the rest of the planet. No Tylenol. We just use paracetamol, which is perfectly safe.

"WAH, THEY DIDNT BASELESSLY BLAME THE THING I WANT TO BASELESSLY BLAME, CLEARLY THEY KNOW NOTHING!
I'VE RESEARCHED THIS ISSUE FOR 20 YEARS BY READING OTHER PEOPLES LUNATIC RAMBLINGS ON FACEBOOK! CLEARLY I'M THE EXPERT ON THIS! "

Are we supposed to just forget?”
This isn't just the "maha" wing, every faction in the incredibly loose coalition that got trump elected is starting to get pissed he hasn't done whatever lie he sold them.
Midterms are going to be a route
- Don't threaten me with a good time... I've been hurt before
  
  I wouldn't be so optimistic. The Democrats are not making any of the good noises, and all they've shown is a silent contempt to people offering change like Mamdani. I think the majority of them still believe they need to offer the same things as the last election, and that they just need to improve the PR, make it louder. And i fear they'll deafly crash. Again.
- Imagine a super majority turn? Would be so crazy, I would love to see it for the MAGA influencer tears alone.
  
  I'll believe it when I see it. I've been disappointed three times already.
- Time for some good Americans to fire up a new-maga party to split those mofos up.

They are just trying to determine exactly how gullible their anti-vax supporters are. So far they have believed every far flung conspiracy possible, why not this one?
- Cause this one isn't in Project 2025.
- Even conspiracy theories that are the exact opposite of the last conspiracy theory go by completely unchallenged.

The problem with appealing to the crazies, is that there's always someone crazier.

Everyone who has autism, every single person, breathes air.
COINCIDENCE???????
- WE DRINK YOUR WATER, AND EAT YOUR TENDIES TOO
  
  NOT THE CHICKEN TENDIES!

I love this so fucking much

If the guy whose brain was half eaten by a worm said it's Tylenol, he must be right.

Yay, it's definitely the oppressed minority, who had their brain destroyed, not the chronic smoker voiced brainwormer. We'll see how many rights we (the autistics all over the world) retain in the next few years.

Given how much of the QAnon-MAGA axis is rooted in trolling, this is entirely unsurprising.

Lol. Probably going bananas because of Tylenol.
- WHEN IT WAS BANANAS THE WHOLE TIME.

RFK is going to get Kirked.
- Hopefully. Mans a danger to society.
  
  Your going to talk about that happening to a KENNEDY and use some peasants name as the codeword. Its family tradition, especially if people spend the next half century or more speculating the CIA was involved.
  He's heading for a Kennedy, not a Kirk.