Experts push back on Trump's tying autism to childhood vaccines, Tylenol

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"The announcements were not based on any new evidence or research on the relationship between Tylenol use and autism or between vaccines and autism and was immediately discredited by scientists, researchers, and professional organizations around the globe.

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In a statement on the president’s remarks, the American Academy of Pediatrics wrote, “Pediatricians know firsthand that children’s immune systems perform better after vaccination against serious, contagious diseases like polio, measles, whooping cough and Hepatitis B. Spacing out or delaying vaccines means children will not have immunity against these diseases at times when they are most at risk.”

 

The American Psychiatric Association also made a clear statement yesterday: “Vaccines do not cause autism. Claims of any such association have been repeatedly discredited in peer reviewed studies."

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“In more than two decades of research on the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy, not a single reputable study has successfully concluded that the use of acetaminophen in any trimester of pregnancy causes neurodevelopmental disorders in children,” the American Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said yesterday. 

 

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/experts-push-back-trumps-tying-autism-childhood-vaccines-tylenol

 

 

 

My doctor is a shoemaker as well

Not all experts agree that Tylenol is harmless during pregnancy.  

This 2019 John Hopkins study rings a different bell...

 

> https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/05/acetaminophen-pregnancy-autism-adhd/

 

 

 

And it's worth taking note of TYLENOL's own assertion (posted on Twitter, March 7, 2017) and fact-checked as genuine by SNOPES. 

 

 

Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tylenol-x-post-2017-pregnancy/

 

Predictable that you would NOT post what the cited fact check actually says, starting with:

 

Contextualizing 2017 Tylenol post about pregnancy recommendations

 

The post shared on social media was authentic, but Tylenol maker Kenvue said the response was "incomplete" and didn't reflect its "full guidance."

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"Tylenol maker Kenvue provided additional context to Snopes via email. The company said, in part, that it does not "make recommendations on taking any medications in pregnancy because that is the job of a healthcare provider." It also described the "consumer response" featured in the post as "incomplete," saying it didn't reflect its full guidance on the safe use of Tylenol.

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The claim circulated elsewhere on X and Facebook (archived here, here and here), with social media users suggesting the post's existence proved that the company has long acknowledged that Tylenol isn't safe to use during pregnancy — a claim medical experts have refuted. [emphasis added]

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Kenvue's full statement is as follows:

We do not make recommendations on taking any medications in pregnancy because that is the job of a healthcare provider.

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• Acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women as needed throughout their entire pregnancy.
• Our products are safe and effective when used as directed on the product label.
• We recommend pregnant women do not take any over-the-counter medication, including acetaminophen, without talking to their doctor first."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tylenol-x-post-2017-pregnancy/

 

 

 

 

10 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Predictable that you would NOT post what the cited fact check actually says

 

Typical tactic of quote-mining gotchas out of context.

 

Why, even Darwin admitted evolution is false, as proven by this quote from On the Origin of Species:

 

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." 

 

Open and shut case, when conveniently disregarding the rest of the paragraph:

 

"When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility."

More nonsense from the anti-vax death brigade. Listen to the doctors, not drug addled politicians.

Trump is one to talk, though he may not have autism he's definitely somewhere on the spectrum. Possibly in the insanity spectrum! 

4 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

Not all experts agree that Tylenol is harmless during pregnancy.  

This 2019 John Hopkins study rings a different bell...

 

> https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/05/acetaminophen-pregnancy-autism-adhd/

 

 

 

 

 

Old, cherry-picked research that later and better studies have contradicted:

 

Research doesn’t show using Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. Here are 5 things to know

 

#4: Some research has shown possible associations between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and childhood development — but here’s what that means.

 

"For more than a decade, scientists have investigated potential associations [emphasis added] between using acetaminophen during pregnancy and developmental disabilities.

Some studies have found positive associations between acetaminophen and autism, meaning children whose mothers took the drug during pregnancy were more likely to later have autism symptoms or be diagnosed with autism.

 

A 2025 Mount Sinai study that reviewed some existing research concluded the available evidence supported an association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and increased incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders.

 

But the largest study on this topic, from 2024, found no evidence supporting an increased risk of autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or intellectual disability associated with acetaminophen use during pregnancy.

 

The 2024 study is one of the two highest quality studies on the topic, Zahn said, and neither found an association between acetaminophen use and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes."

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/research-doesnt-show-using-tylenol-during-pregnancy-causes-autism-here-are-5-things-to-know

 

It's also important to recognize the difference, in geeky science terms, between  studies that find an "association" between two things vs. studies that find one thing CAUSED something else... Association studies find a correlation between two things, but don't establish any causal factor.