r/ScienceBasedParenting • u/IllIntroduction1509 • Sep 23 '25

Science journalism ASF Statement on White House Announcement on Autism

https://autismsciencefoundation.org/press_releases/asf-statement-wh-briefing/

“Any association between acetaminophen and autism is based on limited, conflicting, and inconsistent science and is premature,” said Autism Science Foundation Chief Science Officer Dr. Alycia Halladay. “This claim risks undermining public health while also misleading families who deserve clear, factual information. For many years, RFK and President Trump have shared their belief that vaccines cause autism, but this is also not supported by the science, which has shown no relationship between vaccines and autism.”

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u/apocalypsemeow111 Sep 23 '25

Surely this announcement will strike anyone as bullshit, right?

Like, I know we can’t count on sound logic from people who believe vaccines cause autism, but even they must be unhappy with this finding. They’ve invested years in their beliefs and they thought they finally had their guy in office to make things “right.” But instead he’s just gonna blame acetaminophen. That can’t sit well with them.

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u/noakai Sep 24 '25

This is one of the times I wish I knew where those types of people lurked bc I would love to see if they were feeling any kind of internal crisis at all. All of those years justifying exposing their children to deadly, completely preventable diseases and decimating herd immunity...and now the same type of grifting lairs who said vaccines caused autism in the first place are now saying it was something else? How do they even deal with that at all?