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The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Sep 29, 2025
Trump, Kennedy and Dr. Oz held a press conference to announce that his top health officials would be carrying out a campaign to “confront the crisis of autism.”
It was an obvious attempt to give Kennedy positive press when he is being roundly attacked as a quack, which he is. But Trump got a little frisky and took things beyond what even Kennedy and Dr. Oz had anticipated.
Trump proposed that autism in children was caused by women taking Tylenol during pregnancy. Tylenol, also known by its generic name as acetaminophen, is a drug recommended to pregnant women by doctors to alleviate pain and treat fever. Fever during pregnancy can be a cause of birth defects in the developing embryo.
Science does not show that acetaminophen (Tylenol) causes autism. Studies fail to show the drug causes autism as opposed to simply being correlated with it. Correlation does not necessarily prove causation.
In fact, one very large study published just last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association involving almost 2.5 million children in Sweden found no increased risk in children whose mothers took acetaminophen during pregnancy, compared with their own siblings who weren’t exposed to the drug in the womb.
Current science is making clear that autism is not simply one disorder; it’s a whole spectrum of conditions. It has been linked to more than 100 different genes involved in embryonic brain development and is now more often identified as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). At least in part, the reason for the increase in the frequency of children being diagnosed with autism is that in the early 2000s the American Academy of Pediatrics started recommending to pediatricians that they do autism screening in children between one and two years of age.
Trump told pregnant women to “Fight like hell not to take it,” and several times in his speech said they should take it if they just can’t “tough it out.” What an idiot! You can be sure that he’s never had a baby and wouldn’t know what to do when the labor pains struck him!