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Today is Wednesday, September 24th, 2025, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.

Joining me this week are Bob Novella.

Hey, everybody. Kara Santa Maria. Howdy. Jay Novella. Hey, guys. And Evan Bernstein. Good evening, everyone. How's everyone this fine Wednesday? Pretty good. Doing well. So any of you watched the full press conference with RFK Jr., Trump, and Oz? Yes. Who could stomach the whole thing? No, I couldn't do that. I did watch the, um, did you guys see the cut that they made where they said it to like Bill Nye, the science guy? But it was like, Don Trump, the Scientish guy. It's very funny. It's all the best quotes. It was terrible. I mean, it was straight up. It was tragic. Propaganda. Fire hose of misinformation, propaganda, and all with a very specific purpose as well. Although I honestly think Trump was sort of rambling off script and giving away the game. Like, I could imagine, like they had a meeting where they said, this is what we're going to say, and this is the overall strategy. And Trump didn't know what they were supposed to

say at that conference versus what was the long-term goal. So he sort of gives the game away.

But anyway, do you think when they prepped him that they told him how to pronounce a Cidaminophan

and he just forgot? I don't know. I don't think they thought they had to.

But remember, nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.

It can only good happen, yeah.

All these were belong to.

So here's the quickie version. We talked about it on the live stream. I wrote about it on

science-based

medicine and neurologica. The announcement basically had two components that they've discovered the cause of autism. Wrong. You know, and it's Tylenol, acetaminophen, in pregnant mothers, which is wrong. Again, I talked already about why the evidence for that was preliminary and inconsistent,

and then actually the best evidence is that, no, there is no causal link between those two things.

And pretty much every medical organization, especially the organization in the world,

has looked at the evidence and come to the same conclusion.

But there, of course, just cherry pickingpicking whatever the studies that they want to cherry-puck.

Because they had to, again, the RFK promised he was going to find the cause of autism at six months.

So boom, here it is, right?

Even if he has to just make it up.

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