Kennedy: not enough data to show Tylenol causes autism

[struggle4progress]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of Health and Human Services, says Tylenol should be used with caution during pregnancy, but solid data linking it to autism is lacking.

Susan Heavey and Ahmed Aboulenein
Reuters
Oct 29, 2025

ASHINGTON, DC ‒ There is not enough evidence to confirm that Tylenol causes autism but the pain medication should still be used cautiously, President Donald Trump's top health official said on Oct. 29, a month after the president said U.S. health officials would recommend limiting its use.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s comments also come one day after the Republican state of Texas sued Kenvue, the maker of the medicine also known as acetaminophen and which has been sold widely for decades ...

Trump, who is not a doctor, in September warned pregnant women against taking the medication without citing any scientific evidence. His unproven claim initially hit shares of the consumer health company, Kenvue, which was spun off from Johnson & Johnson in 2023, and prompted pushback from many doctors ...

Trump, who is not a doctor, in September warned pregnant women against taking the medication without citing any scientific evidence. His unproven claim initially hit shares of the consumer health company, Kenvue, which was spun off from Johnson & Johnson in 2023, and prompted pushback from many doctors ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/29/health-chief-insufficient-data-tylenol-causes-autism/86972118007/

[Warpy]

1. Try NO DATA, you ignorant little wart on the arse of th country

And no, those voices in your head don't count.

[GusBob]

9. Worm?

Like brain worm?

[Warpy]

15. The infection he had is no joke but he did recover

These days he's just another Dunning-Kruger asshole who thinks he knows it all.

Tying autism to Tylenol these days is like tying it to drinking milk.

Autism was well known before Tylenol became OTC. I dealt with autistic patients in the mid 60s and I'm pretty sure one grandfather was on the spectrum.

[GusBob]

16. this was in reply to post removed

and the word he used to describe you

[struggle4progress]

2. Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism

Bart Jansen
USA TODAY
Oct 9, 2025 Updated Oct 11, 2025

WASHINGTON – Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expanded his crusade against using Tylenol with a warning: boys who were circumcised were twice as likely to be diagnosed with autism later.

"There are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism," Kennedy said Oct. 9 at President Donald Trump’s Cabinet meeting. "It’s highly likely because they’re given Tylenol" ...

"I would say don’t take Tylenol is you’re pregnant," Trump said. "And when the baby is born, don’t give it Tylenol" ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/09/circumcision-autism-tylenol-kennedy-trump-rfk/86606151007/

[struggle4progress]

3. Ken Paxton expands his anti-business campaign

By The Editorial Board
Oct. 29, 2025 5:40 pm ET

... He’s now filed a dubious lawsuit piling onto Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that Tylenol is dangerous for pregnant women ...

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ken-paxton-texas-tylenol-lawsuit-rfk-jr-pregnant-women-kenvue-e52ee106?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqd0zYGVkaUF_MtG3X6hi8CSAEAmvv3XMoIJl8T5dgOAH-a0byJ_FSH5Ucbv_O0%3D&gaa_ts=6902c415&gaa_sig=LuQY6J_WK4FtQYOLFs4dmCWAgdqWsgp_oL6anBPs8FeRhCZ2lfPc4hmbuJl-_lxhvEGb8NJEr2oRGBT2LPQKmg%3D%3D

[usonian]

4. Meanwhile, in crazy land ...

[struggle4progress]

6. One of hims loose screwses done falled in the gears of hims gizmo-thingy

as might can happens when junkies gets brane worms

[usonian]

8. I like your style, Pilgrim.

You should take up craetive righting. ✍️

[SocialDemocrat61]

5. Susan Sarandon will be relived

(She does their commercials.)

[pat_k]

10. Acetaminophen as a causal factor for the slight correlation in population data was RULED OUT in sibling studies.

I think all the bullshit about Tylenol/Acetaminophen as the cause for autism all came about because:

1. Bobbie promised to announce the cause of autism by September. Based on no evidence, he firmly believed the cause would be vaccines.

2. After being presented with actual data, RFK's vaccine commission, or study group, or whatever the shills are called, backed off voting on changing guidance on vaccines because a few of them noticed that they actually had absolutely no basis on which to make the changes they were happily planning to make.

3. They are stuck. No cause of autism to announce, and here it is September.

4. Presto! A review is published by Harvard showing a slight statistical association between prenatal Tylenol use and autism. (While noting that the finding is a correlation, not evidence of cause.)

5. Trump declares "We'll have a big announcement Monday."

6. Monday comes and he announces: Hey, we know the cause of autism. It's aceta acet a a Tylenol.

Doesn't matter to them that the notion that the association was causal had already been ruled out by sibling studies that controlled for confounding factors (and RFK is so confounded by everything, he is incapable of grasping the concept of confounding factors in a scientific study).

[dalton99a]

11. And plenty of data to show RFK Jr is a profoundly malignant asshole

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Paxton needs to withdraw his silly lawsuit

[rampartd]

13. kenvue inc needs to countersue

bigly

[QueerDuck]

14. It's contrails and windmills! The only cure is copper bracelets, magnets and crystals.

Is he a flat-earther too?

[UTUSN]

17. How about a non-silly lawsuit from Tylenol.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. RFK je may be an expert witness for Tylenol in Paxton's lawsuit

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