President Donald Trump urged pregnant women on Monday not to take acetaminophen, saying that is linked to a “very increased risk of autism”. His remarks – which immediately attracted warnings and setbacks of experts – consults the leading medical advice that acetaminophen, when used correctly, is safe during pregnancy.
The president, who has no medical training, has provided no new evidence in support of his assertion, and many medical organizations respected – notably the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Materal -Fetal Medicine – have rejected the claim, stressing that the years of research have found no causal link between the use of acetuminophen during pregnancy and autism. Experts have also stressed that acetaminophen helps manage pain and fever, which can both be very dangerous for pregnant and fetus if they are not treated. This is the only over -the -counter medication approved to treat fevers during pregnancy.
Trump, who has appointed several skeptics of vaccines and climate change to key positions in his administrations, has made a number of other false and dubious claims on health and science over the years. Here are some of the most notable.
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COVID 19
Trump made numerous false claims related to the COVVI-19 pandemic during his first mandate, including on several occasions minimizing the virus threat. In July 2020, for example, he said that “99%” of cases “are completely harmless” – including the majority of public health and data experts, including his administration, had shown then was not the case.
Trump also made misleading comparisons between the virus and the flu, writing in an article on social networks in October 2020: “The flu season is coming!” Many people each year, sometimes more than 100,000, and despite the vaccine, die of the flu. Are we going to close our country? No, we have learned to live with it, just we learn to live with most populations !!! In-depth data and research carried out by health and science experts have shown that COVVI-19 is more deadly and contagious than flu.
The president has also promoted unproven treatments for the virus, in particular by suggesting that the injection of disinfectant in the body could be a possible healing and proposing that researchers study if the body with an “ultraviolet or simply a very powerful light” could help fight against the virus. Doctors and public health experts have largely warned the public not to inject or ingest disinfectants, warning that this is dangerous.
In March 2020, Trump promoted chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, two antimalarial drugs, such as possible treatments in the virus: “I think it could be something really incredible,” he said at the time. Although he recognized that more research should be carried out, he also said that drugs showed “very, very encouraging results”. Dr. Anthony Fauci, then the main expert in the country’s infectious diseases, and other federal health officials postponed Trump’s remarks, stressing that there was no proven drug to treat the virus at the time and that the two antimalarial drugs have potentially dangerous side effects.
Climate change
Trump has repeatedly denied the existence of climate change. In April 2022, he called it “a hoax”; The following year, he described it as “one of the greatest stupid jobs.” The overwhelming consensus among scientists, based on decades of research, is that the planet warms up and that the change is caused by the emissions generated by the man of greenhouse gases.
Trump also suggested that, because events in cold weather always take place, climate change cannot occur. But many climatologists have discredited this argument, saying that the freezing of events can take place even in the middle of climate change, but over time, these cold events will occur less often and will not last so long.
Tuesday, Trump echoes his previous comments on climate change, calling him the “greatest idiot to be perpetuated” and a “scam” while addressing the United Nations General Assembly.
The president has also made a number of false or misleading declarations concerning renewable energies while pushing to extend the production of fossil fuels, the use of which has been identified as the main source of greenhouse gas emissions. A vocal wind farm opponent Trump, for example, said without proof that the sound of windmills causes cancer. Research has found no link of this type.
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Vaccines
Shortly after being elected to his second term, Trump said that he would be open to the change in the calendar of infantile vaccination and suggested that there could be a link between vaccines and autism – a largely refuted assertion.
“The autism rate is at a level that no one ever believed,” said Trump in an interview with the person of the year in 2024. “If you look at things that happen, there is something that is the cause.”
In this interview, Trump has not explicitly declared that vaccines cause autism, but he said that his administration would carry out “very serious tests”.
Earlier this month, Trump published a video on social networks that favored demystified connection. And during the same event on Monday that he contradicted medical experts with his affirmations on acetaminophen, the president again seemed to suggest a link between vaccines and autism, saying without providing evidence that there are “certain groups of people who do not take vaccines and take no pill that has no autism”.
Autism is diagnosed more often now than in the past, that researchers are largely attributed to changes in the way autism is defined and diagnosed. The demystified assertion that vaccines are linked to autism come from a 1998 study by British gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield The Lancet, which has since been refuted by numerous studies. In 2010, Lancet retracted the study; The editor -in -chief of the newspaper described the claims of the “totally false” study. Wakefield lost his British medical license the same year, after officials said that he had acted “dishonest and irresponsible” in carrying out the research that led to his publication.
Trump did not oppose vaccines or promoted disinformation on the subject to the same extent as some in his party, and sometimes praised their effectiveness, even as his Ministry of Health and Social Services, under the direction of an eminent skeptical of vaccines Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brought a certain number of recent changes to the country’s immunization policy. During the pandemic, in his first term, Trump supervised the rapid development of COVVI-19 vaccines, an achievement he praised several times. Earlier this month, he said that some vaccines are “so incredible” and “just outright work”, seeming to express Florida reserves to eliminate all state vaccine terms.
Abortion
Trump made several misleading statements on abortion since the launch of his first presidential campaign in 2015.
Among them, he said on several occasions that the fetus are killed just before birth or that babies are killed after birth.
The abortions later in pregnancy are rare; Less than 1% of abortions in 2021 occurred after 21 weeks of pregnancy, according to the centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Killing a baby after birth, on the other hand, would not be abortion but infanticide, which is illegal everywhere in the United States
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Stupid care
A few days after Trump was sworn in for the second time, he signed a decree entitled “protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation”. The prescription refers to the care asserted by the sexes as “chemical and surgical mutilations” and affirms that such care is based on the “mulbus science”.
The main medical organizations respected, including the American Medical Association, have approved the stupid care for the sexes for transgender patients, as well as other people looking for it, and have opposed efforts to restrict access, claiming that sexual care is based on evidence and can be medically necessary.
