Listen to your doctor, not our president’s autism ‘advice’

Until this Dark Age of anti-science dogma from the White House finally passes, the safest course is to ignore your government and listen to your doctor

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Opinion

September 25, 2025 - 5:33 PM

Tylenol packages are seen in a pharmacy in Houston on Sept. 23, 2025. President Donald Trump on Sept. 22, 2025, urged pregnant people not to take Tylenol over an unproven link to autism, and urged major changes to the standard vaccines given to babies. Photo by (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

In the months that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been threatening America’s health with his pseudo-science nonsense, the nation could at least hope that he was freelancing. President Donald Trump, after all, has been focused lately on priorities such as militarizing America’s streets and policing late-night talk show monologues. It wouldn’t be surprising to learn RFK Jr., with his multi-pronged assault on mainstream medical science, was just being allowed to go off down his own rabbit hole while the boss was busy pursuing autocracy.

Alas,…

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