Kennedy reups unproven Tylenol-autism link during Cabinet meeting

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Source: ABC News

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Thursday reasserted the unproven link between the pain reliever Tylenol and autism, and suggested people who opposed the theory were motivated by hatred for President Donald Trump.

During a meeting with Trump and the Cabinet, Kennedy reiterated the connection, even while noting there was no medical proof to substantiate the claim. He also mistakenly described a pregnant woman's anatomy and linked autism to circumcision.

“Anybody who takes the stuff during pregnancy unless they have to is, is irresponsible,” Kennedy told Trump and fellow Cabinet members. “It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the prooKennedy noted during the meeting that he had seen a TikTok video on Thursday, which he said featured a pregnant woman “gobbling Tylenol” and cursing Trump.

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“The level of Trump derangement syndrome has now left the political landscape and now in the realm of pathology,” he said. Kennedy also said the woman was taking Tylenol “with a baby in her placenta.

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Kennedy also made the claim that infant boys who are circumcised have double the autism rate because of being given Tylenol after the procedure.

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1. This truly is an idiocracy

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2. "A baby in her placenta?"

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3. It has been proven there is no link. It isn't an "unproven link". There is no link.

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4. Peter Hotez: RFK Jr.'s take on autism is 'increasingly untethered to reality'

Hotez is the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, and he co-directs the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. His many books include “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science” and the new “Science Under Siege,” which he co-wrote with Michael E. Mann.

“He picks things that seem designed to get clicks on the internet. He gravitates toward magical-seeming, spectacular explanations like Tylenol and circumcision,” said Peter Hotez. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

— Gary Schwitzer (@garyschw.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T12:18:08.319Z

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In a White House Cabinet meeting Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that boys who are circumcised are twice as likely to be diagnosed later with autism. Kennedy speculated that maybe it’s because circumcised boys are given Tylenol for pain.

"That’s absurd,” said vaccine scientist and author Peter Hotez, who has long disagreed with Kennedy’s pronouncements about the causes of autism.

“His statements are increasingly untethered to reality,” Hotez said Friday. “It’s actually worrisome that he’d pick circumcision as a factor to highlight.”......

Hotez is frustrated:

“One, he still doesn’t acknowledge the role that genes play in autism.

“Two, he doesn’t acknowledge actual, well documented environmental factors. Lots of studies find weak associations for all sorts of things. But the evidence for some environmental factors, like Valproic, is much, much stronger.

“And three, he picks things that seem designed to get clicks on the internet. He gravitates toward magical-seeming, spectacular explanations like Tylenol and circumcision.