Health experts respond to Trump’s claims linking autism to acetaminophen

Photo: President Donald Trump holds a press conference with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Monday, May 12, 2025, in the Roosevelt Room. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian via Flickr. US government work. Article by William Brangham and Karina Cuevas. PBS News – September 22, 2025.

President Trump tied the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy to autism and made several other claims about vaccines. William Brangham discussed those claims and the concerns about what the president said with Alycia Halladay of the Autism Science Foundation and Jennifer Nuzzo of Brown University’s School of Public Health. […]

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