• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 hours ago

    Not to defend RFK, but this argument is dumb.

    People from everywhere it doesn’t natively grow developed cancer long before they had access to tobacco. That doesn’t prove tobacco use doesn’t cause cancer, it just means it isn’t the only potential cause.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      That’s because cancer is a category of diseases, not a single one. Specific types of cancer that are caused by smoking are caused by smoking (there is afaik 12 of those, and some are associated with prolonged inhalation of any smoke, and some are only tabaco-related, but it doesn’t matter)

      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 hours ago

        The point is, the claim is that Tylenol is “linked to” autism.

        This post is rebutting the claim that Tylenol “causes” autism.

        Thats a classic straw man argument.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Also dumb because it wasn’t until 1943 that we had the first diagnosis of autism. OP is just making shit up.