Kennedy circumcision, autism, explicit comments about Tylenol
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday claimed that “mainstream media” misinterpreted its comments about circumcision and autism rates, the Trump administration doubled the statement that Tilenl could be a possible cause of neurological and developmental disorders.
At a cabinet meeting on Thursday, President Trump revisited his personal beliefs that pregnant women and newborn children should not be given the active ingredient of the over-the counter tilennel acetaminophen.
Addressing this, Kennedy said at the meeting, “Two studies have shown that children have been circumcised early in their autism.
Following these comments, numerous outlets have titled that Kennedy has associated circumcision to autism. The Secretary has “deformed” his comments against news outlets like New York Post and USA or accused of reporting them with “misleading framing”.
“As usual, mainstream media attacked me to do something that I did not say to distract from the truth of what I said,” Kennedy wrote on the Social Platform X. He quotes an autism spectrum disorder and circumcision between boys under 10 and quotes a 2015 Danish study that supports the claim to connect with acetaminophen.
In this study, researchers mentioned the assumptions of the acetaminophen exposure to the uterus and autism in the early life, but they made it clear that their research had no information about the pain relieving the pain among the boys included in their research.
“So we were unable to address the paracetamol hypothesis directly,” they wrote.
Although Kennedy suggested that following the use of acetaminophen following circumcision, the researchers who quoted in the study say that their search has indicated a possible link between the law and the future neurological development.
“Our inquiries suggest that circumcision may somehow trigger the development of ASD [autism spectrum disorder] In a small fraction of young boys. These searchs clearly do not prove the proposed associations, “they said in their search the theories related to the pain and stress of the initial life and the risk of increasing the risk of developing behavioral problems” remains incompletely. “
