"Over the past few weeks, Kennedy has reportedly been looking into an alleged connection between autism and Tylenol use during pregnancy. Parker's preoccupation is slightly different: He believes that children's use of Tylenol causes autism. Parker has for years operated on the fringes of academia. He runs his own small, independent laboratory, which he started after he lost a lab at Duke University's medical school."
"(Duke did not renew Parker's contract after he began focusing on autism in his research, though an email that an administrator sent to Parker in 2021, which I reviewed, said only that keeping the lab open wasn't in his department's "strategic best interest.") Parker's attempts to publish in academic journals have regularly been rebuffed. One reviewer tore into a recent submission from Parker, writing in their assessment that his hypothesis was "outrageous" and "illogical"; the paper was rejected."
William Parker has for nearly a decade promoted the theory that acetaminophen (Tylenol) causes autism but has largely failed to convince other scientists. Researchers have not found causal links between medications and autism and attribute much of the rise in diagnoses to changing diagnostic criteria. Parker reports recent contact from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and NIH director Jay Bhattacharya, with Kennedy reportedly probing prenatal Tylenol use while Parker focuses on children's use. Parker runs a small independent laboratory after Duke declined to renew his contract, and his manuscripts have been rejected as "outrageous" and "illogical."
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