Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday got here up with a brand new and novel strategy to blame dad and mom for his or her kids’s autism, this time linking circumcision with the neurodevelopmental dysfunction.
Sure, you learn that proper.
“There’s two research which present kids who’re circumcised early have double the speed of autism. It is extremely seemingly as a result of they got Tylenol,” RFK Jr. said throughout a Cupboard assembly at which Trump administration officers as soon as once more battled it out to see who might kiss Expensive Chief’s ass the toughest.
Kennedy was seemingly referring to a Danish study from 2015, which discovered that “circumcised boys have been extra seemingly than intact boys to develop [autism spectrum disorder] earlier than age 10 years.”
The examine—which consultants say is bogus anyway—truly drew a far totally different conclusion than Kennedy’s unhinged declare. The authors hypothesized that circumcision is painful, and the ache impacts the mind in a method that would result in autism—not as a result of infants who’re circumcised are given Tylenol to reduce ache.
Nonetheless, President Donald Trump ate up Kennedy’s insane feedback, nodding alongside as if in settlement that circumcision and Tylenol use might result in autism earlier than weighing in along with his personal idiotic remark.
“There is a super quantity of proof or proof. I might say as a non-doctor, however I’ve studied this a very long time,” Trump said.
Who is aware of what Trump means by “studied,” nevertheless it’s uncertain {that a} man who barely reads and as an alternative glues himself to cable information has achieved any authentic finding out of a fancy neurodevelopmental dysfunction.
Following the cringe-inducing Cupboard assembly, New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, who’s Jewish, stated Kennedy’s principle was antisemitic, seemingly referencing the truth that male Jewish infants are circumcised eight days after beginning.
“That is an antisemitic comment. I name on all my colleagues on each side of the aisle to obviously denounce it,” Nadler wrote in a put up on X.
In the end, whereas Trump buys Kennedy’s insane theories about the reason for autism, People don’t.
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A Kaiser Household Basis ballot launched Thursday discovered that 65% stated it was in all probability or positively false that there’s a hyperlink between autism and Tylenol utilization. Simply 4% of respondents stated it is “positively true.”
