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RFK, Tylenol, and America’s Autism Panic

Behind RFK’s Tylenol claim lies a larger collapse of trust between experts, parents, and the institutions meant to protect them.

Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the Trump administration’s Health Secretary, outdid himself. During a Thursday Cabinet meeting, he alleged that “children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism.” This is part of RFK Jr.’s ongoing quest to link Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism, a theory he previewed in September alongside the presiden…

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