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groundloop

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Fri Oct 10, 2025, 03:04 AM Oct 10

Kennedy reups unproven Tylenol-autism link during Cabinet meeting [View all]

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.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/kennedy-reups-unproven-tylenol-autism-link-cabinet-meeting-126381739



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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