Major medical organizations, which customarily eschew delving into politics, are finding themselves increasingly at odds with the Trump administration as health policy decisions are being advanced without the backing of scientific consensus.

In the past few months, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under the direction of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has put forward drastic changes to federal guidance on vaccines and this week sounded unsupported warnings about a link between Tylenol and autism.

Medical societies like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have publicly broken with the administration’s guidance.

Both the AAP and AAFP issued COVID-19 vaccine

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