Medical professionals, pregnant women and autistic people note guidance’s disconnect from reality

Medical professionals, pregnant people and those caring for people with autism note guidance’s disconnect from reality

Medical professionals, pregnant people and readers with a relationship to autism are furious about Monday’s announcement from the Trump administration involving Tylenol and its alleged connection to autism.

Within hours of the Guardian publishing a call for responses to the announcement, hundreds sent in their thoughts. Many of these individuals noted that the announcement had fascist undertones and was largely disconnected from the realities of science and the experience of being pregnant. A number of respondents suggested that this announcement was a bad-faith ploy to distract voters from issues that Trump wants removed from the discourse.

“Tylenol can ease the pain of Epstein?” wondered one Georgia-based reader who preferred to remain anonymous.

  • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
    23·
    4 months ago

    I really wish the media would stop enabling their firehose-of-shit approach. They constantly do and say awful things, that is their MO. Stop letting them control the narrative, you hacks.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      What do you propose? This IS news, especially since it’s stupid.

      Tylenol autism blah, click here for a current list of scandals?

      I agree with you, but I’m not sure how to handle it.

      • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        1. I don’t need to propose a solution. I mean, I’d love to if it was my area of expertise, but it’s not. There’s plenty of areas I could do more than point out a problem in but there’s people with a lot more education and experience in this area that would be better suited.

        2. That said, I’d prioritise other news. This kind of crap would not be given the top spots on news pages. It’s giving them exactly what they want and feeding into their strategy. There’s other important stuff happening every day across the world. There’s stuff the US nutjobs do that aren’t part of this “firehose of shit” (such as stuff related to European geopolitics vis à vis the Russian invasion of Ukraine and surrounding events) which I feel it’s entirely reasonable to report on (even if it’s just the US president agreeing with whoever flattered/bribed him last). I would not consider “the US government spouting misinformation about paracetamol” to fall into that category.

        Amusingly BBC Radio 1 used my words about this story on their midday news to juxtapose it with stuff that actually is news, which was kinda funny.

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I really hope this will encourage the billionaire shareholders of Johnson & Johnson to put a hit out on Trump.