Posted on 10/11/2025 6:03:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 2020, the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that one in 36 children (approximately four percent of boys and one percent of girls) was estimated to have autism-spectrum disorder, estimates that were significantly higher than those in all previous years.
But just five years later, according to the press conference held just weeks ago on September 22, President Trump — in the presence of U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz — announced that the Department of Health and Human Services stated that autism had surged in America nearly 400% and now affects 1 in 31 American children...
...and that this alarming statistic was a result of pregnant women taking Tylenol during their pregnancies!
Within milliseconds, everyone weighed in, from a skeptical Scientific American to the hearty support of the Icahn School in the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
Here, Dr. Josh Redd explains in plain English why Tylenol is so bad for pregnant women.
Besides the pros and cons, disturbing facts emerged, not the least of which is that the FDA knew about the Tylenol-autism link over a decade and a half ago...but did nothing! Talk about “follow the money”!
In fact, as early as 2019, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study recommended — again, with no follow-through — that the labels be revised to advise pregnant women to “be careful about casual use of acetaminophen when it is not strongly needed for pain or other purposes.”
It took a few years, but since September 2022, according to the BirthInjuryCenter.org , over 100 lawsuits have been filed nationwide against acetaminophen manufacturers, claiming damage over the failure to warn pregnant users...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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If Paul Harvey hadn’t taken Tylenol, he could have given us the Rest of the Story.
An incidence of 1 in 36 rising to 1 in 31 is not a surge of 400%. A surge of 400% would be a quintupling to 5 in 36.
Nicolette Larson died from a Tylenol overdose.
The problem might not be an increase in autism, but a change in what is defined as autism. Many of those described as having autism today might not have been described as such in decades past.
Maybe an underlying cause of pain is the underlying cause of the autism:
He was fine until he was vaccinated.
It’s due to the drug you took while pregnant.
I agree with you. Also, I think the diagnosis automatically qualifies for some SSDI or other benefits, as well as possibly medical providers have financial motives to have more cases.
I don’t have statistics on this, so if someone has any sources to support these claims, I would appreciate it. Otherwise, it is JMHO.
Did acetaminophen sales boom in those 20 years?
Could part of the problem be women having their babies at an older age when the eggs are not as fresh as younger eggs?
For years now we have had the warnings about drinking and smoking in pregnancy but there didn’t seem to be a problem when young women were smoking and drinking with no harm to the fetus.
That's a part of the story, women having kids layer in life and fewer kids overall is part of the story, Tylenol use might be part of the story, vaccine schedules and ingredients might also be part of the story,
But if you talk about any one of those things as contributing to autism rates, someone is going to say it's garbage science because it doesn't explain everything, or it makes women feel accused of making bad decisions or confronted with the consequenses of their actions, or it makes a republican look good, or one of the establishment heros look bad. That's just the state of the world any more.
I was 21 when my son was born and after the first trimester I drank and smoked. He’s 6’3, healthy, an athlete with excellent scholastic record.
I probably stunted his growth but at least he doesn’t have to constantly duck to get through doorways.
Not that I know of but it waas just before the steep rise that the first paper evaluation the use of tylenol before circumcisions was published. I posted the link in a similar thread yesterday.
“...and that this alarming statistic was a result of pregnant women taking Tylenol during their pregnancies!”
That is not at all what was claimed. People who insist on lying ought to make sure evidence contrary to what they assert have gone the way of the DoDo bird.
When I was pregnant with 3 of my children I was afraid to take Tylenol. It was a fairly new drug and I felt it hadn’t had enough time on the market to know if it was safe for a pregnant woman’s baby. I took aspirin for headaches during pregnancy because aspirin had been out for a very long time. All three of my babies were and still are perfectly healthy.
Fact: Research indicates morbid obesity is a cause of Autism. I blame McDonalds.
Not joking.
I would say indeed autism has been redefined to include everything. Anyone and everyone now has the luxury to be called a victim of something. Kid a little awkward, he must be autistic. And then to throw a whole lot more victims on the pyre, invent “Asperger’s” syndrome for adults to be called autistic. And when that’s not enough? Make a whole spectrum that everyone can be on.
Maybe it is acetaminophen maybe not. But it that’s the biggest fish right now RFK skipped right over the lgbtqwtf surge in children and its root causes.
The article is poorly written. The autism rate increase is over the last 20 years. Ser data at link. https://www.statista.com/chart/29630/identified-prevalence-of-autism-spectrum-disorder-in-the-us/
About 80-90% of the risk for autism is genetic, stemming from a complex combination of inherited genes and new (de novo) mutations. While genetics are the dominant factor, the condition also results from an interplay with certain environmental factors during early development, such as advanced parental age, prenatal exposure to pollution, maternal obesity, and birth complications.
Tylenol being used as the bad guy for a the truth?.
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