Natural Tylenol
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Today’s Conspirituality podcast traces how the Oval Office announcement denouncing Tylenol on the pretext of a correlation with autism opened up the floodgates for a social media frenzy of epic proportions:
Did you hear about the pregnant woman who ingested too much Tylenol just to “own Trump” and is now on a ventilator and will likely not wake up, offing both herself and her baby? If you were tapped into social media at all this past week, you likely saw dozens of wellness and right-wing influencers sharing it, each with their own hot take. One problem: there’s still no proof this woman exists.
Their research and reporting covers a broad range of examples of how individual people have been confused and outraged, and how influencer pseudoscience and wellness grifters are having a field day with them.
- Last week we wrote about the Bacarelli article — now known as the “Harvard study” — and we discussed it with Christine Laine, Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Internal Medicine.
The breadcrumbs for why and when authors from Mt. Sinai, UCLA, UMass, and Harvard would choose to pay to publish this particular paper in BMC Environmental Health are not hard to follow. The political authority and legal track record this paper anchors, regardless of its stated findings and interpretations, are inextricably linked and timed to exploit hotbed issues to widen the divide between the scientific and medical community and the MAGAMAHA-verse powers-that-be who stand to profit politically and financially.