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Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say

www.washingtonpost.com /health/2025/09/21/trump-autism-announcement-tylenol-leucovorin/

Officials will also tout the drug leucovorin as a potential autism treatment, in what President Donald Trump has billed as a “very important” announcement.

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I've got no idea what the alleged evidence for this is, but what I do know is that the people making these announcements are completely untrustworthy.

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what I do know is that the people making these announcements are completely untrustworthy
You are being overly kind. These people are BATSHIT Crazy.
- I'd say they're moronic evil.
  
  This suggests a whole new kind of D&D alignment chart.
  
  I feel 'evil' requires a knowledge that what they is doing is wrong with intent in doing so. I don't think RFKjr is sane enough to know he is being harmful unfortunately. The administration is filled to the brim with both, people being harmful intentionally and ignorantly.
This will go away as soon as J&J pays the troll toll. We are in the "and I don't care who knows it!" stage of the kleptocracy.
- J&J spun it off into a company called Kenvue a couple years back, so lots less resources to fight it.
Fabulous! Now treat those with autism with respect and dignity........................
- I think this is a lead up to rounding up everyone with autism and moving them to special camps for "education".
  
  Knowing the current administration, it's probably so then can start selling sugar pills that 'reverse Tylenol autism' for $2K/pill and use them to loot the healthcare system.
- Best I can do is arrest all the parents who gave their kids Tylenol for neglect and put them in camps.
  And the kids too. Oh and we can give them all free jobs while they are there to give them the opportunity for them to learn new trades.
  These non-human second rate child abusers need to be separated from us, they were attacking the children!
- Starting with eliminating these bullshit claims for "causes" of autism.
I’m very happy I didn’t get diagnosed when I was younger, it’s sad though that I have to make the choice to not get diagnosed to not have to worry as much
- Same here. I have never been diagnosed with anything mentally related thankfully.
Weird how the famously autistic Temple Grandin had been alive for 8 years when Tylenol went on the market.
-EDIT-
Also:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406
Findings In this population-based study, models without sibling controls identified marginally increased risks of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) associated with acetaminophen use during pregnancy. However, analyses of matched full sibling pairs found no evidence of increased risk of autism (hazard ratio, 0.98), ADHD (hazard ratio, 0.98), or intellectual disability (hazard ratio, 1.01) associated with acetaminophen use.
- I don't know the background for the bullshit here, but I really doubt anyone is implying that it is the ONLY cause.
  
  Giving fascists the benefit of the doubt is a stupid move.
- That is easily explained. Temple Grandin's parents were time travelers from the future where Tylenol existed, making Temple also a time traveler as a baby to have a birthdate recorded 8 years prior to Tylenol's release to the market. /s
- Weird how the famously autistic Temple Grandin had been alive for 8 years when Tylenol went on the market.
  Acetaminophen has been out since the mid/late 1800's.
https://www.autismspeaks.org/science-news/tylenol-and-autism
- Thank you for sharing! Saving a click: So there was a first, flawed study, which studied the link between Tylenol and autism on the basis of correlation (not causality), and they failed to factor in other underlying reasons why parents who end up having an autistic child might use acetaminophen slightly more often (ex: the parents themselves have a condition that makes them take Tylenol more often). The new thorough study clearly demonstrates that there are no links.
  
  The experiments that proves no connection between Tylenol and autism has been done two ways:
  In the 80s there was a tainted Tylenol scandal and sales were suspended and all pills recalled. Sales dipped to near zero for years. No difference to autism rates.
  Many countries avoid Tylenol use due to liver toxicity. No difference in autism rates.
Is this butterfly an autism?
For all the reasons Tylenol should be pulled from shelves, autism probably isn't one of them.
McNeil Consumer Healthcare must not have paid their bribe money.
Look, acetaminophen is one of the most harmful OTC drug without this nonsese.
If they stop here, fine. But fight it like hell.
- Source please? I haven't been able to find anything credible about whatever danger it is you're referencing - unless the danger is overdosing because the person didn't know they were taking acetaminophen in different forms? If the danger is people not bothering to check what they're ingesting, I'll concede that's a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.
  
  I think the reason people overdose on Tylenol, and often don't realize that's the problem until their liver is failing, is that for decades Tylenol was presented as the "safe" choice for fever and pain control. Which really just means it's not going to give little kids Reye Syndrome. But because you've absorbed that idea as a little kid, you're not looking for danger unless you specifically re-learn about overdose hazard. And too many people don't, because shitty education. Then you add all the mixed "cold and flu" OTC medications with the ingredients in tiny print, and the fact that by the time you have uncomfortable symptoms it's probably too late to pump your stomach, so people die. And that's without counting in the little ones who got into the grape chewables or drank the whole bottle of the baby's bubblegum liquid.
  Editing to add: In my experience, Tylenol just doesn't do a very good job of easing pain, which might also lead to overdose. It never worked for my severe period cramps, which Advil did. And there's a case of a man dying because he took 5 extra-strength every hour trying to control his dental pain, which I would never do but I can affirm it doesn't do shit for toothache either.
  But autism? Nah.
  
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441917/
  https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/820200-overview
  https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/acute-liver-failure
  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5962381/
  https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/acetaminophen-toxicity-what-pharmacists-need-to-know
  You ... You didn't try at all, did you?
  
  Yeah, it’s easy to take too much.
  
  I think the point is that it can cause serious damage/death if you take too much... Which is maybe a bit unique among OTC medications specifically
  
  US consumers have been completely brainwashed into taking drugs for any minor inconvenience and told they are safe. The only truly safe drug is drug that does nothing.
  Because they are directly marketed to, they overdose or mix NSAIDs until their kidneys and livers fail.
- My ex's cousin died from renal failure from Tylenol.
  All painkillers have downsides. Ibuprofen triples the risk of stroke—more with greater dosages. But claiming Tylenol causes autism is stupid.
  
  Tylenol is not nephrotoxic. It's metabolized by the liver, and it can absolutely cause damage in high doses, but I think your statement is in error.
- Alcohol is worse. Why is no on banning it?
  If you take too much of something, it becomes harmful. What an epiphany.
  
  I mean the sheer amount of sugar in our food has to be the largest cost to lifespans/healthcare in the U.S.
  Id like to see us make a change over time introducing not bans but better ways to regulate packaging.
  I don't want it to have warnings everywhere and dead fetuses and shit, I just want things like, green boxes, blue boxes, magenta boxes, stuff like that. Maybe an easy to see letter in the lower left for those who are color blind
- It's also worth noting that it's pretty much the only OTC painkiller you're allowed to take while pregnant, so
  A. I would imagine the percentage of people who've taken it at least once while pregnant is staggeringly high, to such a point that this would be very difficult to adequately establish causation and
  B. They are, once again, just screwing over pregnant people
- I'm calling bullshit on this claim

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