What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - How Trump Got Obsessed with Autism
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🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Why would Donald Trump rush to announce that Tylenol is a potential cause of autism, a claim unsupported by the research?
Guest: Dan Diamond, White House reporter for the Washington Post.
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| 1:05.2 | I don't know that any description I can give of Monday's White House announcement about autism can fully capture it. |
| 1:13.9 | Effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians at the use of |
| 1:18.4 | a sedent. Well, let's see how we say that. Asadaminopin. acetaminophen. |
| 1:29.7 | Is that okay? |
| 1:43.3 | Which is basically commonly known as Tylenol during pregnancy can be associated with a very increased risk of autism. |
| 1:44.6 | I want to be clear that the link the president is making is unproven. |
| 1:49.4 | So taking Tylenol is not good. |
| 1:55.4 | I'll say it. It's not good. |
| 1:58.9 | For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy |
| 2:05.0 | unless medically necessary. |
| 2:08.7 | That's, for instance, in cases of extremely high fever, that you feel you can't tough it out. |
| 2:16.0 | You can't do it. |
| 2:16.8 | I guess there's that. |
| 2:18.7 | I asked Dan Diamond to listen to that clip with me. |
| 2:21.5 | Dan covers the White House for the Washington Post. |
| 2:23.9 | And before that, he covered health care for a decade. |
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