Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol.

[elleng]

https://www.aol.com/articles/health-secretary-kennedy-trump-circumcision-190708761.html

[LearnedHand]

1. Seriously, fuck that brainworms guy

[DURHAM D]

2. good lord

I have long skinny feet.
Do you think it is because my mother took Tylenol when she was pregnant with me?

[WestMichRad]

7. No, that was from ...

… the aspirin your aunt took, according to ReallyF’inKooky jr.

[Prairie Gates]

3. Americans love circumcision like they hate the metric system

This one won't go over well hahah. It won't go over well heyooooo.

[Deuxcents]

4. Good grief.

[BlueKota]

5. Tylenol was invented by the time my Mom had me,

but I doubt she used it. She always swore by Bayer Asprin.

[Mossfern]

6. My mom

swore by scotch.

[QueerDuck]

10. "Atta-girl!"

[BlueKota]

16. 🤣

[mountain grammy]

8. That was fast.

[Midnight Writer]

9. Don't worry. This only affects dickheads.

[yellow dahlia]

11. Riddle me this brainworm boy?

What about ALL the boys/men diagnosed with autism prior to the invention of Tylenol? And I'll bet you there are men out there on the spectrum who weren't circumcised. Has brainworm boy been conducting a survey?

And Mr. Dahlia said - it is a good thing there are no girls w/ autism.

[chowder66]

12. Gee Wally, did they move the goalposts again?

[DavidDvorkin]

13. American Jews do not have a higher autism rate than the general population

Despite Ashkenazi Jews, which most American Jews are, having a gene that's associated with higher autism rates.

That would seem to undermine RJF Jr's. claim.

[sakabatou]

14. Oh look, Kennedy's trying to draw up support from antisemites

Everyone act surprised.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Peter Hotez: RFK Jr.'s take on autism is 'increasingly untethered to reality'

Hotez is the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, and he co-directs the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. His many books include “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science” and the new “Science Under Siege,” which he co-wrote with Michael E. Mann.

“He picks things that seem designed to get clicks on the internet. He gravitates toward magical-seeming, spectacular explanations like Tylenol and circumcision,” said Peter Hotez. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

— Gary Schwitzer (@garyschw.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T12:18:08.319Z

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/hotez-autism-circumcision-rfk-21093425.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

In a White House Cabinet meeting Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that boys who are circumcised are twice as likely to be diagnosed later with autism. Kennedy speculated that maybe it’s because circumcised boys are given Tylenol for pain.

"That’s absurd,” said vaccine scientist and author Peter Hotez, who has long disagreed with Kennedy’s pronouncements about the causes of autism.

“His statements are increasingly untethered to reality,” Hotez said Friday. “It’s actually worrisome that he’d pick circumcision as a factor to highlight.”......

Hotez is frustrated:

“One, he still doesn’t acknowledge the role that genes play in autism.

“Two, he doesn’t acknowledge actual, well documented environmental factors. Lots of studies find weak associations for all sorts of things. But the evidence for some environmental factors, like Valproic, is much, much stronger.

“And three, he picks things that seem designed to get clicks on the internet. He gravitates toward magical-seeming, spectacular explanations like Tylenol and circumcision.

[malaise]

18. These folks are

Stark raving mad