Autism
2024
2024-09-01 Elon Musk reposted a 4Chan shitpost about autism.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/elon-musk-aspie-supremacy-4chan-autism/
2025 April
2025-04-11 During a press conference, RFK promised to find the definitive cause of autism by September, four months after the press conference.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0z9nmzvdlo
2025-04-16 During a press conference, RFK stated autistic kids would “…never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted”. He went on to say, “Most cases now are severe. Twenty-five percent of the kids who are diagnosed with autism are nonverbal, non-toilet-trained, and have other stereotypical features.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-statements-on-autism
2025-04-16 Both John Hopkin’s and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases published articles trying to set the record straight about misinformation surrounding autism and vaccines.
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evidence-on-vaccines-and-autism
https://www.nfid.org/autism-and-vaccines-what-the-science-really-says/
2025 September
2025-09-22 During a live press conference, Trump suggested that Tylenol caused autism without citing studies, research, or support for the claim, and leaving question in the minds of pregnant women whether or not it would be safe to take Tylenol.
https://www.fda.gov/media/188843/download
https://jheor.org/post/3465-trump-claims-no-downside-to-avoiding-tylenol-during-pregnancy-he-s-wrong
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/sep/15/Tylenol-acetaminophen-pregnancy-autism-RFK/