There’s nothing that conservatives love more than ginning up a moral panic based on little evidence. One example of this: the right-wing backlash to a handful of TikTok videos of pregnant women taking Tylenol .

The trend is a response to President Donald Trump’s announcement on Monday that the FDA plans to issue new guidelines discouraging women from taking Tylenol during pregnancy “unless medically necessary,” inaccurately claiming that doing so causes “a very increased risk of autism.”

Tylenol, also known as acetaminophen, is one of a handful of pain and fever relief medications that have been proven safe for women to take during pregnancy. While some studies have pointed to a correlation between Tylenol use in utero and the development of autism — including a recent review by

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