The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Though some argue that a causal relationship is plausible and others argue that a causal relationship is very likely and that acetamin should therefore be avoided during pregnancy um or used uh at most with strong precaution.
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Does the exposure precede the reported effects in this case? It does. Um and certainly to a first order it does meaning acetaminophen use comes before autism. Um but there really hasn't been a consensus on the impact of timing of exposure or critical you know windows in which gestational exposure might be uh more problematic than others.
Uh Barelli who is the author by the way of the paper in um that came out in August that we've been talking about. He believes that maternal use during any part of pregnancy increases the risk to the fetus. While Parker believes that prenatal exposure carries relatively little risk provided the mother has a healthy liver to process the drug. Parker instead argues that the greatest risk comes with exposure in the neonatal period or even during birth itself.