Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Trump and RFK’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Autism Press Conference

 https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-and-rfks-terrible-horrible-autism-press-conference-health

The autism community has its factions and disputes, but yesterday most of them agreed on one thing: The press conference held Monday by President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)—in which they claimed that autism was linked to Tylenol use by pregnant women—was an abomination.

Paul Offit, head of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a board member of the Autism Science Foundation, called it “arguably the most irresponsible public health press conference in history.”

3 comments :

  1. Rachmono L'etzlan
    https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/sjsomab2lg

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    1. And the worst part is that one cannot blame Trump or RFKJr.

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  2. Well, except that the first time someone suggested thalidomide caused birth defects he was also yelled at. Took a decade of so to discover the connection between diethystilbestrol and vaginal cancer.
    And there have been reports on a connection between prenatal acetaminophen and ADHD for a few years now.
    https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2025/mount-sinai-study-supports-evidence-that-prenatal-acetaminophen-use-may-be-linked-to-increased-risk-of-autism-and-adhd
    Studies are contradictory and even the ones that show a risk show it to be minimal but there is a suggestion out there.

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