""Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant, an associate professor at Columbia University," he said. "She was saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta.""
""Any mother who is taking the stuff during pregnancy just to get back at Donald Trump is doing something that is pathological," he continued, accusing the woman of suffering from Trump derangement syndrome."
""RFK Jr. is telling on himself," Darya Minovi, Senior Analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told Jezebel in a statement. "Stating that he will 'make the proof'-that they've already determined the study results before doing the research-shows just how far astray our nation's public health leadership has gone from scientific integrity. The effects of acetaminophen use in pregnancy should be studied, but the results should follow rigorous research, not the other way around.""
""Ah yes, the scientific method famously instructs us to predetermine a conclusion and then do studies to \"make the proof.\" https://t.co/sNRJirjb5t - Dr. Michelle Au (@AuforGA) October 9, 2025""
The Health and Human Services Secretary recounted seeing a TikTok of a pregnant woman and incorrectly described a fetus as being in the placenta. The Secretary repeated a long-disproven claim that acetaminophen (Tylenol) causes autism and said officials would "make the proof," implying research would be directed to a predetermined conclusion. Medical and scientific experts criticized the approach as antithetical to rigorous research and scientific integrity. Analysts emphasized that effects of acetaminophen use in pregnancy deserve careful study but that results must follow unbiased, methodologically sound investigation rather than preconceived outcomes.
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