Sad to say, the evidence the Trump administration is using to blame autism on Tylenol comes from a Harvard dean. The Crimson:
Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump administration to link the drug to autism, a connection experts say is tenuous at best.
Baccarelli served as an expert witness on behalf of parents and guardians of children suing Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturer of Tylenol at the time. U.S. District Court Judge Denise L. Cote dismissed the case last year due to a lack of scientific evidence, throwing out Baccarelli’s testimony in the process.
“He cherry-picked and misrepresented study results and refused to acknowledge the role of genetics in the etiology” of autism spectrum disorder or ADHD, Cote wrote in her decision, which the plaintiffs have since appealed.
Something about autism seems to make a lot of people crazy.
Autism is really weird, and I get why a strange condition that destroys young minds in a largely random way freaks people out. But we absolutely do not know what causes it or even what it is, so at present all claims about causes are just sound and fury.
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