RFK Jr. again shows he knows dick all about autism
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday proposed a new way to blame parents for their children’s autism, this time linking circumcision to the neurodevelopmental disorder.
Yes, you read that correctly.
“Two studies show that children who were circumcised early have twice the rate of autism. It’s very likely because they were given Tylenol,” RFK Jr. said. said during a Cabinet meeting in which Trump administration officials once again battled to see who could kiss Dear Leader’s ass the hardest.
Kennedy was probably referring to a Danish study from 2015which found that “circumcised boys were more likely than intact boys to develop [autism spectrum disorder] before the age of 10.
The study, which experts say is fake Regardless, he actually reached a very different conclusion than Kennedy’s disjointed assertion. The authors hypothesized that circumcision is painful and that pain impacts the brain in a way that could lead to autism — not because circumcised babies are given Tylenol to dull the pain.
Nonetheless, President Donald Trump swallowed Kennedy’s inane comments, nodding as if he agreed that circumcision and Tylenol use could lead to autism before interjecting with his own idiotic comment.
“There’s a tremendous amount of evidence. I would say as a non-physician, but I’ve been studying this for a long time,” Trump said. said.
Who knows what Trump means by “studied,” but it’s unlikely that a man who barely reads and glues himself to cable news has conducted a legitimate study on a complex neurodevelopmental disorder.
After the fraught Cabinet meeting, New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, who is Jewish, said Kennedy’s theory was anti-Semitic, likely referring to the fact that Jewish male babies are circumcised eight days after birth.
“This is an anti-Semitic remark. I call on all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to clearly denounce it,” Nadler said. wrote in an article on X.
Ultimately, even if Trump buys into Kennedy’s crazy theories about the cause of autism, Americans do not.
Related | Americans aren’t buying RFK Jr.’s medical quackery.
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Thursday found that 65% said it was probably or definitely not true that there is a link between autism and Tylenol use. Only 4% of respondents said this was “completely true.”
