Ignoring Scientific Evidence, Trump Blames Tylenol For Autism
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, health correspondent Yuki Noguchi, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 1:27.7 | I mean, mazel top, of course. Monterey's beautiful. Come on, man. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Danielle Kurtzleben. I cover the White House. And I'm Domenico Montanara, senior political editor and correspondent. And today's guest, we have NPR health correspondent Yuki Noguchi. |
| 1:28.3 | Hey, Yuki. |
| 1:29.3 | Hi. |
| 1:27.7 | And today on the show, we have NPR health correspondent Yuki Noguchi. |
| 1:28.3 | Hey, Yuki. |
| 1:29.3 | Hi. |
| 1:33.4 | And today on the show, we are talking about several recent health recommendations President Trump has made, often contradicting well-established science. |
| 1:38.6 | Let's start with the president's comments about Tylenol during a press conference this week. |
| 1:42.6 | So taking Tylenol is not good. |
| 1:49.1 | I'll say it. It's not good. |
| 1:52.4 | For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy |
| 1:58.5 | unless medically necessary. |
| 2:01.6 | That's, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever, |
| 2:06.6 | that you feel you can't tough it out, you can't do it, I guess there's that. |
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