The Announcement That Shook the Medicine Cabinet This week, President Donald Trump stood in the Roosevelt Room flanked by Health Secretary RFK Jr., claiming a link between prenatal Tylenol use and rising autism rates. Trump called it a “horrible crisis,” and RFK Jr. promised sweeping FDA warnings, label changes, and a public health campaign. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary threw in what may be the scariest bureaucratic euphemism of the year: “We now have data we cannot ignore.” He cited studies from the Boston Birth Cohort, Nurses' Health Study, and Mount Sinai-Harvard—each showing associations between acetaminophen use and developmental disorders like ADHD and autism. Sounds damning, right? But as always, the devil’s in the details. What the Data Really Shows Let’s…

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