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Happy Monday, listeners!
For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.
You're listening to our weekly science news roundup.
First,
we're bringing in one of our regular contributors from the Siam Newsroom for an update on one of last week's biggest stories.
That's President Donald Trump at a White House press conference last Monday talking about the supposed ties between a pregnant person's use of acetaminophen,
which is the generic name for Tylenol, and autism spectrum disorder.
Scientific American associate editor Alison Partial wrote a piece last week unpacking the actual data.
Here she is now to summarize a few major points.
So a handful of studies have shown a link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism diagnoses,
but importantly,
that increase in risk has been relatively small and quite inconsistent across studies.
So the largest study was from 2024 that came out of Sweden.
The researchers looked at nearly 2.5 million people who were born between 1995 and 2019.
And among those people,
rates of autism diagnoses were about 0.09 percentage points higher for the people who took Tylenol during pregnancy versus those who didn't.
But the effects disappeared once they controlled for genetic factors through what's called a sibling control analysis.