Official: Paracetamol Increases Risk of Autism

In a medical first, President Donald Trump held a press conference to announce that taking the common pain relief drug Tylenol (a brand name for Paracetamol) during pregnancy can lead to an increased risk of autism for unborn babies, due to the drug's active ingredient acetaminophen. 

"Today we're delighted to be joined by America's top medical and public health professionals as we announce historic steps to confront the crisis of autism," said Trump.   Speaking from the White House on Monday, the president said that Tylenol taken during pregnancy "can be associated with a very increased risk of autism." 

Speaking from the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump linked acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol (Paracetamol), to autism and urged pregnant women to largely avoid the medication in pregnancy.  

"The meteoric rise in autism is among the most alarming public health developments in history. There's never been anything like this," he said. 

President Trump revealed the shocking progression of Autism in the population, from a rare almost unheard of condition of 1 in 10,000 less than three decades ago to 1 in 12 today.

The Trump administration said in April it would kick off a massive research initiative to understand the cause of autism by September, and the president hinted at the announcement Sunday at the memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

"Tomorrow we’re going to have one of the biggest announcement(s) … medically, I think, in the history of our country. I think you’re going to find it to be amazing," he said.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said that the NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS are "turning over every stone to identify the ideology of the autism epidemic and how patients and parents can prevent and reverse this alarming trend."

"We have broken down the traditional silos that have long separated these agencies, and we have fast-tracked research and guidance," said Kennedy. "Historically, NIH has focused on almost solely on politically safe and entirely fruitless research about the genetic drivers of autism. And that would be like studying the genetic drivers of lung cancer without looking at cigarettes, and that's what NIH has been doing for 20 years."

Speaking during the Monday press conference FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said that "we now have data we cannot ignore."  Makary said that a collection of studies, including from the Boston Birth Cohort, the Nurses Health Study and Mount Sinai-Harvard have established that there is a "causal relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder."

Trump also warned against over-vaccinating babies and children, saying, "It's too much liquid, too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number the size of this thing. When you look at it, it's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines, 80, and you give that to a little kid." 

Trump then dropped another bombshell; revealing that they knew that these medications were the cause because they had the data to prove it:   The Amish, who take no vaccines or pills of any kind, don’t suffer from Autism,  the entire group is totally free of such diseases.  The Amish then are effectively the placebo group of a huge nationwide study that never happened but should have.

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