What If RFK Wasn’t the Guy All Along?
Derek Hunter
We were promised if not THE, at least one of the causes of autism. What we got was don’t take Tylenol while pregnant. While I have no problem with that – my wife wouldn’t take anything, and I mean anything, while she was pregnant: Tylenol, Advil, aspirin, coffee, old grapes, ANYTHING – avoiding acetaminophen during early pregnancy doesn’t seem like a heavy lift to lower the possibility of autism.
But the case wasn’t presented very well by the team at Health and Human Services. They used already-existing research from places like Harvard that suggests a possible link, because that’s all there is: a POSSIBLE link. They should have been very clear that there may be a correlation, but that does not establish causation. That would have made the argument “Maybe don’t take it in the first few months of pregnancy, unless you really need to” argument land with less of a thud.
While I support the idea of doing whatever is necessary to lower risks of negatively impacting kids, this press conference was well short of what we were promised. We were promised a cause, we got an older maybe.
I have to blame Robert Kennedy Jr. He’s the boss, he’s responsible. He’s the one who over-promised and under-delivered.
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