Recently, murmurs began about one specific assertion that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would make in a soon-to-be-released report from the HHS. Kennedy, founder of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement and whose opinions are often born of pseudoscience and its online peddlers, has long been a vocal critic of vaccines (as was abundantly clear in his Senate hearing ) and will now suggest, accordingly to reporting by the Wall Street Journal , that use of the common pain reliever acetaminophen during pregnancy is linked to autism. An assertion rejected by all major organizations overseeing maternal health guidance, and one unsupported by definitive scientific research.
Acetaminophen is a widely-used and relied-upon standalone medication (aka, Tylenol i