RFK Jr walks back Trump administration’s claims linking Tylenol and autism

Kennedy, a apical wellness official, urges ‘cautious approach’ aft Trump baselessly claimed taking Tylenol is linked autism successful children.

United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has partially walked backmost his warning that taking Tylenol during gestation is straight linked to autism successful children.

In a quality league connected Wednesday, Kennedy struck a much mean code than helium mostly has successful his past nationalist appearances.

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“The causative relation betwixt Tylenol fixed successful gestation and the perinatal periods is not capable to accidental it decidedly causes autism,” Kennedy told reporters. “But it’s precise suggestive.”

“There should beryllium a cautious attack to it,” helium added. “ That’s wherefore our connection to patients, to mothers, to radical who are large and to the mothers of young children is: Consult your physician.”

Wednesday’s connection is person successful enactment with the guidance of reputable wellness agencies.

While immoderate studies person raised the anticipation of a nexus betwixt Tylenol and autism, determination person been nary conclusive findings. Pregnant women are advised to consult a doc earlier taking the medication.

The World Health Organization reiterated the constituent successful September, noting that “no accordant relation has been established” betwixt the medicine and autism, contempt “extensive research”.

But claims to the contrary person already prompted efforts to bounds the availability of Tylenol, a fashionable marque of acetaminophen, a fever- and pain-reducing medication.

On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a suit accusing Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, the companies down the over-the-counter symptom reliever, of deceptive practices.

In doing so, helium reiterated misinformation shared by President Donald Trump and authorities officials similar Kennedy.

“By holding Big Pharma accountable for poisoning our people, we volition assistance Make America Healthy Again,” Paxton said successful a statement, giving a motion to Kennedy’s MAHA slogan.

The suit alleges that Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue violated Texas user extortion laws by having “deceptively marketed Tylenol arsenic the lone harmless painkiller for large women”.

It was the latest lawsuit of technological misinformation being perpetuated by apical officials. Both Trump and Kennedy person repeatedly dispersed technological misinformation passim their governmental careers.

Trump linked autism and the painkiller during a quality league successful September, without providing reputable technological findings to backmost the claim.

“[Using] acetaminophen – is that OK? – which is basically, commonly known arsenic Tylenol, during gestation tin beryllium associated with a precise accrued hazard of autism,” Trump said connected September 22. “So taking Tylenol is not good. I’ll accidental it. It’s not good.”

Kennedy has offered his ain sweeping statements astir Tylenol and its alleged risks, contempt having nary nonrecreational aesculapian background.

“Anyone who takes this worldly during pregnancy, unless they person to, is irresponsible,” helium said successful a furniture gathering connected October 9.

Kennedy besides mischaracterised studies connected antheral circumcision earlier this month. He falsely said the studies showed an summation successful autism among children who were “circumcised early”.

“It’s highly apt due to the fact that they’re fixed Tylenol,” helium added.

Kenvue stressed successful a connection connected Tuesday that acetaminophen is the safest symptom reliever enactment for large women, noting that precocious fevers and symptom are imaginable risks to pregnancies if near untreated.

“We basal firmly with the planetary aesculapian assemblage that acknowledges the information of acetaminophen and judge we volition proceed to beryllium palmy successful litigation arsenic these claims deficiency ineligible merit and technological support,” Kenvue said.