The “historic” White House announces autism and trinol confusion

On Monday, President Donald Trump stood beside the “Make a healthy America” ​​team to a “historic” declaration of autism. behind In AprilThe Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior revealed the cause of the “autism epidemic” by September.

At the beginning of this month, people close to the MAA movement suggested that the upcoming autism announcement of Kennedy would link the use of Tilanol during pregnancy with this condition. Researchers are concerned that they will deviate from vaccines. Kennedy and Trump The spread of wrong information About a link between vaccines and autism in the past, despite many Strict studies Disback any link.

Anne Power of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, an epidemic scientist who participated in writing a recent analysis about Tilanol and autism, told me, “I was sick with my stomach”, offered that Kennedy will discredit her team’s conclusions. She was also afraid that scientists would reject her team’s measured fears about Tilanol in a violent reaction against politicized or misleading notes.

Power and her colleagues were Review 46 studies On Thailanol, autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity. Many have found no link, while some suggested that Tilanol may sometimes worsen other possible causes of autism, such as genetics.

Since Tilanol is the only safe pain reliever for use during pregnancy and fever during pregnancy it can be painful as well as dangerous, the team suggested wise use of the drug until the science is settled.

This is not what Trump advised. “Do not take Tilanol,” he said. “Do not give Taylinol to the child. When the child is born, they throw him on you. Here, pomegranate, they gave him two Thailanol. They give him a bullet. They give him a vaccine. And every time they give him a vaccine, they throw Thailan. Some of these children, and they know, they are born for a long time, and they are all sudden, and they go.”

In e -mail data, HHS and White House spokesman said Trump uses “Standard Gold Science” to address increasing autism.

Helen Tagger Flosberg, director of the Excellence Center for Autism Research at Boston University, described Trump’s dangerous comments. The centers of control and prevention of scholars have told me that they were never asked to inform Kennedy or the White House of autism, or review recommendations. If the researchers were asked, they would have made it clear that there was no medication, chemical, or another environmental factor that is strongly associated with growth disorder.

Tager-Flusberg said that the rapid reforms-the type Kennedy promised-will not make. She said: “We know that genetics is the most important risk factor, but you cannot blame major medications in genetics, and you cannot build a political movement on genetic research and ride to victory.”

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