"Trump was there with his health secretary, anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to link autism to the use of Tylenol (acetaminophen) during pregnancy. While medical experts condemn the claim as unproven and dangerous (which it is), Kennedy's anti-vaccine followers decried it as a distraction from their favored false and dangerous explanation-that vaccines cause autism (which they don't). Pinning the blame on Tylenol instead of vaccines enraged Kennedy's own anti-vaccine organization, Children's Health Defense."
"At one point in his comments, he rattled off a list of anti-vaccine activists' most vilified vaccine components (mercury and aluminum). But his attack largely ignored the content of vaccines and instead surprisingly focused on volume. Overall, his comments were incoherent, but again and again, he seemed to swirl back to this bizarre concern. Wut? If you piece together Trump's sentence- and thought-fragments, his comments created a horrifying picture of what he thinks childhood vaccinations look like:"
President Trump, alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr., advanced a claim linking Tylenol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy to autism. Medical experts condemned the claim as unproven and dangerous, while anti-vaccine followers dismissed the shift as a distraction from the false belief that vaccines cause autism. Kennedy's organization initially reacted with anger but the dispute was quickly muted during the event. Trump then veered into remarks that echoed longstanding anti-vaccine talking points, naming vilified components like mercury and aluminum and emphasizing the perceived volume of vaccine ingredients. The remarks were described as incoherent and alarmist about injections into infants.
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