"The breakthrough moment came during his autism press conference, when the president repeatedly stumbled over the word acetaminophenyou know, the very drug he was warning the entire nation to avoid. After mangling the pronunciation of one of the world's most common medications, he humbly made sure to let us know that he and RFK Jr. understood a lot more than a lot of people who studied it."
"It may not have that much of an impact, but it may have a big impact. This rhetoric has real consequences in real exam rooms like mine across the country. As a pediatrician, I've had multiple conversations this week that started the same way: I saw what Trump said about And each time, I find myself not just correcting medical facts but explaining how we determine what's actually true in medicine."
Donald Trump promoted a feelings-based approach to health care by asserting medical judgments based on personal impressions instead of peer-reviewed evidence. He repeatedly stumbled over the word acetaminophen while warning the nation to avoid the drug and implied superior understanding compared with trained experts. He framed medical decisions as matters of feeling, dismissing peer review and controlled studies, and minimized vaccine concerns with a contradictory line about impact. That rhetoric generates patient fear, prompts parents to ask clinicians whether common medications or vaccines cause autism, and forces clinicians to correct facts and explain scientific methods.
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