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This is a spectacular scam on the American people.

RFK, Jr., started the ball rolling by claiming that he'd find the cause of autism by September. No reason was given why it would be found by then, or on any other timetable, for that matter. Why September instead of July?

Meanwhile he foists the causal vs. correlation fallacy that because acetaminophen was introduced in the 1955, somehow it was to blame for autism becoming more widely diagnosed in the 50s. This ignores the fact that the first diagnosis of autism was in 1943, and it took years before the condition was widely recognized.

There is no scientific link, at least none that Kennedy presents. He could have just as easily linked autism to the advent of television or of rock and roll.

As a kidney donor, I use acetaminophen occasionally because it is the only over-the-counter painkiller deemed safe by nephrologists. I have a fairly high pain tolerance so I use it no more than once every three or four months. But for mothers-to-be whose pregnancy pain can be quite difficult, for Kennedy to use the bully pulpit of the federal bureaucracy to trash their one source of easily accessible relief is unconscionable.

Kennedy is a colorful character with the salesmanship and the lack of scientific knowledge that absolutely permeates social media today. Cane syrup = bad, natural food colors = bad, etc., etc.

If he'd just kept focused on his War on Red Dye #2, he couldn't do too much damage. He is a loose cannon and it's a shame President Trump is uncritically adopting his line.

1 posted on 09/22/2025 3:25:55 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
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You’re here to bash Trump
Why?


2 posted on 09/22/2025 3:28:11 PM PDT by wardaddy (I now know what “furry” is)
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Senator Cassidy (“R”- Louisiana) sabotaged internist (still practicing) Dave Weldon MD from being appointed head of the CDC. Unfortunately, I know MAHA was somewhat thwarted from then on. (Cassidy was also behind the choosing of Susan Monarez, who has since been fired and is doing everything possible to sabotage MAHA further.)

Dave Weldon is a highly competent physician and would have been very measured and common sense about things.


3 posted on 09/22/2025 3:29:35 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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I am sure that there is some evidence to back up the claim.


4 posted on 09/22/2025 3:30:54 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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If this was the Biden administration the title of the article would be “FDA Caution Pregnant Women About Taking Tylenol”. I hate the MSM.


7 posted on 09/22/2025 3:33:33 PM PDT by alternatives?
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A lot of people tell me Tylenol doesn’t work for them.


8 posted on 09/22/2025 3:33:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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You must have watched a different press conference than I did.

Maybe because “follow the science” only extends to the point where it goes against Big Pharma’s bottom line?


9 posted on 09/22/2025 3:33:58 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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They seem to become autistic in a single day, a week or two AFTER A ROUND OF SHOTS

“We’re looking at Tylenol”


18 posted on 09/22/2025 3:41:30 PM PDT by Pollard (Search -- Downgraded)
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Horse hockey. The evidence of massive increases in children developing autism is indisputable. In just a few years, the cases have gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31. It is quite likely that fetal development is strongly affected by mothers taking Tylenol.

Since you’re not likely to get pregnant anytime soon, butt out.


19 posted on 09/22/2025 3:42:07 PM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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Are you pregnant?


20 posted on 09/22/2025 3:42:52 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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It sounds like ten thousand cicadas reeeing over on 4chan pol


23 posted on 09/22/2025 3:47:23 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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Yeah let’s go with the knee jerk Trump hating a-holes at the shill. Ladies go ahead and load up on Tylenol if you are pregnant what have you to lose


27 posted on 09/22/2025 3:51:12 PM PDT by iamgalt
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Miami NeverTrump. A Meatball POS.


28 posted on 09/22/2025 3:53:14 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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It says a 'potential association', why are you lying/exaggerating his comments?


30 posted on 09/22/2025 3:54:42 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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I THINK the mother’s use of Tylenol messes with the baby’s ability to take in the folic acid that it needs.

https://autism.fratnow.com/blog/folic-acid-vs-folinic-acid/


37 posted on 09/22/2025 4:14:10 PM PDT by ryderann
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Doctors used to make commercials for cigarettes, Nathaniel and Joseph. So stick that in your bong and smoke it, a**holes.


39 posted on 09/22/2025 4:20:32 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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Trump tells pregnant women ‘don’t take’ Tylenol, contradicting standard guidance

Sounds ok to me.   I haven't used that stuff for decades because it doesn't work the way aspirin and ibuprofen work.

41 posted on 09/22/2025 4:34:09 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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Was this his big autism announcement?


42 posted on 09/22/2025 4:36:12 PM PDT by Drew68
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and that’s how the left will play this “Trump wants women to suffer and die in pain during pregnancy”


43 posted on 09/22/2025 4:37:08 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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I haven’t seen the presser or heard all the details so I reserve judgement.

However, all I’m thinking is what happened to the ingredients in various ‘vaccines’ causing autism? And many other side effects? Is that all under some rug now? I sure as hell hope not.

I said sometime in the last week that we should start a running tally of Good Things That Have Happened so we can refer back to it to remember why we’re so happy.

I’m an emotional mess, have been for the last 2 weeks between everything and then other things. So my bitterness may be misdirected.


45 posted on 09/22/2025 4:39:44 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do things which are improper and repulsive, Rom 1:28)
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“Don’t take Tylenol” while pregnant or give it to babies and toddler IS standard guidance! As of today.


48 posted on 09/22/2025 4:44:03 PM PDT by CFW
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