Simon Anders
s-anders.bsky.social
Simon Anders
@s-anders.bsky.social
physicist, bioinformatics / biostats researcher at University of Heidelberg
Reposted by Simon Anders
Do NOT be afraid of taking Tylenol.

It is not linked to autism.

Read more here: 🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...
The Tylenol–Autism Pseudoscience Pipeline
How false testimony about Tylenol and autism failed in court, was repackaged as “peer-reviewed” junk science, and is now driving Trump’s dangerous medical advice.
news.immunologic.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Reposted by Simon Anders
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM