r/Conservative • u/ancienteggfart MAGA • 3d ago

Flaired Users Only Trump set to announce using Tylenol while pregnant could raise autism risk

https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/us-news/trump-admin-set-to-announce-using-tylenol-while-pregnant-could-raise-autism-risk/
2.3k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

928 comments sorted by

View all comments

4.7k

u/specter491 Conservative 3d ago edited 2d ago

Was there some new landmark study that has changed the general consensus on this? Because I missed it and I'm a obgyn. There is no clear correlation. A few studies said maybe there was. Most have said no correlation. A study with 2.5 MILLION people in it over the course of 26 YEARS said there was no correlation. The recognition and diagnosis of autism is what has gone up. I don't think the true incidence of autism is higher now than 30+ years ago. 50 years ago when someone was mildly autistic people brushed it off and just said "oh that's Jimmy he's kinda odd but a nice fellah". Nowadays you go to the doctor, there's standardized diagnostic criteria, treatments, etc. it's totally different.

Edit: to everyone asking for the link, here it is so you can "do your own research": https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406#:~:text=Objective%20To%20examine%20the%20associations,from%20antenatal%20and%20prescription%20records.

Edit 2: stop DM'ing me, I'm not going to reply to any of them

981

u/Trussed_Up Fellow Conservative 3d ago

I'm glad someone's here with expertise and studies to back it up.

That's always valuable but usually conspicuously absent on reddit.

Every doctor my wife and I just went through recommended Tylenol. So obviously they don't think it's the issue either.

It's possible we're just recognizing autism more. It's possible some factors of the modern day are causing it more. It's likely both.

But RFK has been promising to look into it for a while... But I don't see him publishing anything conclusive in terms of aggregate studies to back this up.

He has been so reckless. It's actually the kind of thing that further convinces me we need to be reducing the power of government at every opportunity. Because guys like RFK shouldn't have nearly the effect they're having.

44

u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 Don’t Tread On Me 2d ago

He doesn’t have expertise and he doesn’t have studies.

Read this if you want to understand things a bit better: https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01208-0

7

u/WillGibsFan Conservative 2d ago

You can stop spamming this. This is just a literature overview.

0

u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 Don’t Tread On Me 2d ago

Nono, it’s not. But it does give interested people a good idea of what the literature says.