When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Donald Trump administration would reopen investigations into the causes of autism, he promised it would be an “unbiased, depoliticized, gold standard scientific research and academic freedom.” Eventually, they declared that Tylenol during pregnancy is a huge determinant in which infants get autism — now a group of researchers have released possibly the most thorough analysis on the topic yet.
When Trump first announced that his administration had concluded that acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol — was responsible for autism, he asked Americans to “fight” it. Trump even went further to claim that the reason Cuba does not have any autism is because they don’t have Tylenol. This again was disproven because Tylenol is just a brand that uses acetaminophen; there are multiple painkillers throughout the world that use the ingredient, sometimes with its alternative name of paracetamol.
