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Trump administration 2024-2028

Brad Sallows said:
That was the problem. Anyone doing suppression isn't doing science; he's doing politics. Far-fetched ideas aren't ruled out of bounds; they just have the burden of proof.

It's easy to guess where the wheels come off. Authorities dealing with emergencies know their measures have to be followed; they fear that if they seem less than omniscient their measures might not be followed; they take the lazy way out to appear omniscient by suppressing discordant information. In the pandemic case, they compounded the error by clinging to the mantle of scientific method while not following it.

They should never have taken the lazy way out. The risk is that after the fact some of the discordant views will be seen to have been legitimate and correct, and some did end up in that set.
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I'm not sure I agree.

Less deaths, but more political and academic discord following.
Or
More deaths, but less political and academic discord following.

Which option is the more ethical/pragmatic choice?
 
Lumber said:
I'm not sure I agree.

Less deaths, but more political and academic discord following.
Or
More deaths, but less political and academic discord following.

Which option is the more ethical/pragmatic choice?
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False dilemma. The costs of unnecessary and unnecessarily prolonged measures have not been taken into account. Besides, the instant the authorities permitted widespread public protests, they vacated their position on restrictive control measures on freedoms of mobility and assembly.
 
@The Bread Guy The criteria for ASD, ADHD, etc have changed constantly over the last 20 years, with a lot of previously completely separate diagnoses merged under the same umbrella, and actual diagnoses is pretty subjective in any case as it's based on behaviour not any kind of consistent marker. It also varies widely country to country.

It's also not infrequent that a kid getting screened leads to one of the parents getting diagnosed, with similar traits in previous generations, so there is a huge genetic factor they don't understand, and it's not like adults getting diagnosed in their 40s, 50s and 60s were neurotypical before they had that diagnoses.

They've also found in other studies that the rates of autism are slightly lower in vaccinated kids, but no one is saying there is a causal relationship between vaccines decreasing the chances of autism. Sometimes it's a coincidence, or even due to something like someone reporting they are taking tylenol during pregnancy has generally higher levels of medical support, so the kids get more screening.

These ignorant, drug addled, fake tan soaked clowns saying it's the cause is an absolute lie, and it's the same bunch that wants to add everyone on the spectrum to a list and track their genetics in some sort of eugenecists wet dream.
 
Navy_Pete said:
These ignorant, drug addled, fake tan soaked clowns saying it's the cause is an absolute lie, and it's the same bunch that wants to add everyone on the spectrum to a list and track their genetics in some sort of eugenecists wet dream.
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The issue stands at correlation-is-not-causation. People commonly make the leap between (on many different issues) without properly understanding the distinction. Ignorance or incomplete misunderstanding isn't an absolute lie. Assertions to the contrary will for their own part look pretty discreditable if cause is proven.
 
Brad Sallows said:
The issue stands at correlation-is-not-causation. People commonly make the leap between (on many different issues) without properly understanding the distinction. Ignorance or incomplete misunderstanding isn't an absolute lie. Assertions to the contrary will for their own part look pretty discreditable if cause is proven.
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They are cultivating ignorance deliberately, under a false banner of competence, which is becoming a common theme.

If Tylenol was the cause, the Amish and lots of other communities wouldn't have any incidents, and you wouldn't have historical figures from pre acetaminophen days with pretty classic ASD traits (or less noted figures that were chucked in asylums).

The same people that want to put warning labels on tylenol based on very flimsy, non causal correlations are also licensing leucovorin to treat some autism symptoms, despite not having any clinical studies on benefits/risks or even requests from pharmecautical companies to do so.

It's a combination of snake oil sales peddled under the banner of science and medicine by someone who isn't a scientist or a doctor that will likely have generational impacts for the level of misinformation. It's no different as the guy that linked vaccines to autism with falsified research, that has had no impact on reducing autism rates, but is resulting in measles, mumps and now possibly polio starting to make a comeback.
 
Navy_Pete said:
They are cultivating ignorance deliberately, under a false banner of competence, which is becoming a common theme.
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To judge by what comes out of politicians' mouths, ignorance about these kinds of nuances is common and in many cases not deliberate.
Navy_Pete said:
If Tylenol was the cause
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Correlation is not causation, and causes are not exclusive. There can be multiple causes; acetaminophen could be one. The question has been raised and ought to be investigated. Any kind of ingested chemical - drugs, alcohol, whatever - could reasonably be investigated for effects on gestating humans.
Navy_Pete said:
The same people that want to put warning labels on tylenol based on very flimsy, non causal correlations
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Organizations are increasingly risk averse, and the US is a very litigious country. Try to imagine what happens if the order of the day is dismissal if not denial and a causal link is established in a couple of years. Recommendations and warnings are not prohibitions.
 
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