Which of the following statements does the speaker support?

A large study in JAMA Pediatrics reported an 87% increased risk of autism among children born to women taking antidepressants. But 87% higher than what? About 1% of babies worldwide are born with autism. And while an 87% increase in relative risk sounds like a lot, it represents a tiny absolute increase in risk. The study also couldn’t establish for sure whether the drugs were responsible for the autism link.

Just because we don’t know everything doesn’t mean we know nothing. What do tobacco, food additives, chemical flame retardants and carbon emissions all have in common? The industries associated with them and their ill effects have been remarkably consistent and disturbingly effective at planting doubt in the mind of the public in the teeth of scientific evidence. Call it pseudoskepticism.