It's Tuesday, September 23rd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that says that if you want evidence-based medical advice you can count on, run away from the White House as fast as you possibly can.

On today's show, the Supreme Court signals it will probably maybe overturn a near

century-old law for President Donald Trump, and Disney announces Jimmy Kim alive will return to

late night.

But let's start with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., noted

anti-vaxxer and apparently part-time detective. Back in April,

RFK Jr. announced at a cabinet meeting that he was on the hunt for the real cause of autism.

A hunt that would take no prisoners. Ask big questions and find the one true answer to a medical

question that's been researched for decades by September. We are going at your direction.

We are going to know by September we've launched a massive testing and research effort that's

going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world.

By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and will be able to eliminate those exposures.

Well, on Monday, the Trump administration announced that the hunt was over.

Sort of.

In an upcoming report that already has raised way, way, way more questions than it could possibly answer,

the government announced that it was looking to link rising autism rates to the use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol by pregnant

women. But in some countries, like say, Cuba, the drug goes under the name paracetamol,

a fact which it seems the president of the United States was not aware of.

There's a rumor, and I don't know if it's so or not, that Cuba, they don't have

Tylenol because they don't have the money for Tylenol, and they have virtually no autism.

Except, as I mentioned earlier, Cuba does have acetaminopin, aka paracetamol, aka

Tylenol. But blaming autism on Tylenol with no evidence is part and parcel of what the Make America Healthy Again movement actually looks like,

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