A New Lancet Study that Failed to Show It Wasn't Random Says Tylenol Isn't Linked to Brain Damage

News stations have jumped on the bandwagon, claiming 40 studies were reviewed in this Lancet paper that makes me realize just how lax and/or bought-out the Lancet is. The problem is that they only included 17 of those studies in the meta-analysis. Digging deeper, we find they didn't get statistical significance with p-values over 0.4 (they should be below 0.05). Why was this study published? This isn't a randomized controlled trial that was simply too small to be significant. No, this was a literature search. The entire purpose of meta-analyses is to combine small studies to achieve statistical significance. They failed. Further, they used estimated estimates to help shape their data and computer AI to model the results. 

If you really want to know the truth, scientists have known for a long time that Tylenol/ acetaminophen/ paracetamol causes brain damage in kids just as it causes liver damage in adults: 

Acetaminophen causes neurodevelopmental injury in susceptible babies and children: no valid rationale for controversy

This study is from 2023, before politics were attached to it.

News agencies should be ashamed of themselves