As summer draws to a close, Donald Trump does his best to promote an upcoming White House event on autism. president gave confidence to the public He said he was ready to make a “very, very big” announcement. A day later he Added The information he is prepared to share is “too big.”
As is too often the case, Trump’s results did not match his rhetoric. When the incident occurred, Americans watched the president spend an hour peddling outlandish claims about Tylenol. To make matters worse, Republicans believe that their conclusionsemotion” — as opposed to those who base their findings on their own research, “research.”
Paul Offit, a pediatrician and vaccine researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said: told the Washington Post“It was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in public health in American history.”
One month later, Reuters reported Regarding recent remarks by Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
President Donald Trump’s top health official said Wednesday that there is no evidence that Kenvue’s painkiller Tylenol causes autism but should still be used cautiously, a month after the president said U.S. health officials would recommend limiting its use. ‘The causal link between Tylenol administered during pregnancy and the perinatal period is not sufficient to say with certainty that it causes autism. But it’s very suggestive,’ Kennedy told reporters, citing animal, blood and observational studies.
I can’t help but wonder if Trump noticed this remark.
In fact, the president has been very proactive about acetaminophen recently. In the aftermath of the outrageous White House event in mid-September, Trump I kept pushing. Hysterical rhetoric about Tylenol; online and on camerahe is “I studied this for a long time.” (He has no background in science or medicine and has a history of promoting unscientific nonsense.)
In the weeks that followed, the president continued to travel, even stopping this week from a trip to Asia to publish. anti tylenol screed on his social media platforms. “Pregnant women, do not use Tylenol unless absolutely necessary. Do not give Tylenol to young children for any reason,” he wrote for unknown reasons.
Around the same time, scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued current and former Tylenol manufacturers at the direction of the White House, in the same vein as debunking Trump’s autism-related claims.
Kennedy (he was cited repeatedly) a day after the Texas Republican’s lawsuit was filed. In Paxton’s court filing:) admitted there was “insufficient evidence” to prove a link between Tylenol and the vaccine.
Whether he knew this or not, the Cabinet Minister had created a redundant confusion. On the one hand, Kennedy made public concessions that brought his allies to their knees. On the other hand, a longtime conspiracy theorist has nonetheless claimed that there is an “implied” link between painkillers and autism. What science doesn’t support.
As a result, mainstream America will continue to have difficulty trusting federal public health officials.
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