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RFK’s Deep Thoughts on...Circumcision?

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Will Sommer break down one of RFK Jr.’s strangest moments yet: suggesting during a Trump cabinet meeting that circumcision might cause autism. The pair unpack the pseudoscience behind RFK’s claim, the misuse of disputed Danish studies, and the way his comments echo the administration’s earlier Tylenol panic. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, guys, me, Sam Stein, managing it at Earth Bullwork.

0:02.3

I am here with Will Summer, who is the author of False Flag.

0:06.2

The reason Will's with us is because every other person on staff refused to talk about this topic that we're going to talk about.

0:13.8

It was just too hot an issue, too uncomfortable a topic of conversation for anyone other than me and Will.

0:23.1

I speak of RFK Jr.'s latest discourse around autism, this time that there may be a correlation between early

0:29.2

circumcision and autism. This was during a cabinet meeting today. I'm not going to be totally

0:36.4

dismissive. He's not, you know,

0:38.9

he's not speaking completely out of his ass. There are some studies, but as usual, it's

0:42.5

incredibly complicated and he's distilling it into something that is wildly misleading. But,

0:47.7

well, let's play the video of it. And I don't know. Let's just talk about it after the fact.

0:55.9

Let's roll the tape of RFK talking about circumcision at the cabinet meeting there's two studies that show children who are circumcised

1:01.2

early have double the rate of autism it's highly likely because they're given tylon so you know

1:07.8

none of this is this positive but all of it is stuff that we should be paying attention to. Doug Bergam sitting next to him, like, I don't know. Did he say, I didn't miss that. Can we play that again? I want to see Bergen. No, no, he's just sort of look and look at this guy talking about it. Yeah, I want to play it again. Let's play it again if we can. I want to actually look for the... There's two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism.

1:32.8

It's highly likely because they're given Tylenol.

1:36.2

Oh, you know, none of this is dispositive, but all of it is stuff that we should be paying attention to them.

1:41.6

Oh, my God.

1:42.3

Half of the cabinet members aren't looking at them.

1:44.6

They're just like,

1:50.7

stare straight ahead. Don't look. Don't look. I'm going to go on a limb and say that's the first time circumcision has been brought up in a cabinet meeting, unless I'm missing something.

1:57.1

But what did you make of RFK just going for it? Well, you know, it is a lot to bring up in a cabinet meeting, as you said. I mean, it's kind of just, you know, it's the RFK war on Tylenol. I mean, clearly he made this promise that they were going to get to the bottom of autism by, I think, September. They made the big announcement about women, pregnant women taking Tylenol. And now he's, I mean, it's sort of a part of this where, you know, the science on this is very mixed and we can get into it. But he's just like, you know, there it is. It's the circumcisions. That's what's causing autism. Yeah, I think that's what gets me a bit. And we will get into the science because, well, I'm not a scientist, but I did actually do a little research on this.

2:36.7

But it's like the science because, well, I'm not a scientist, but I did actually do a little research on this.

2:36.8

But it's like the idea that the top health official in the country would just kind of riff out in a cabinet meeting about like very important things like childed autism and circumcision.

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