Why is Wes Streeting telling Donald Trump to shut up?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The US president is pushing his health secretary’s latest conspiracy theory from the White House. This one links a paracetamol painkiller with autism in pregnant women - a claim which has been discredited by numerous large scale studies and scientists. But is the damage already done? Today our own health secretary took to the television to warn women not to listen to the US president. How damaging will Trump’s words be? And is it all part of a larger movement to discredit science and expertise?
Later, Reform UK are being told their "numbers don’t add up" on their latest plans for mass deportation. Is that the only push back the government has to offer? Have they ceded the argument by merely talking about the maths?
And lastly, why is America having to bail out Argentina when they’ve all been praising President Milei's immense cost cutting capabilities?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians at the use of acid... |
| 0:19.0 | Well, let's see how we say that. |
| 0:21.6 | Acetaminophen. |
| 0:24.6 | Acetaminophen. |
| 0:25.6 | Is that okay? |
| 0:27.6 | Yes. |
| 0:28.6 | Which is basically commonly known as Tylenol |
| 0:33.6 | during pregnancy can be associated |
| 0:36.6 | with a very increased risk of autism. |
| 0:42.3 | Pregnant women of the world may be saved by the mere fact that Donald Trump can't even |
| 0:48.4 | pronounce the very drug he's trying to warn them off. He has made a claim without any evidence. And I say that |
| 0:58.4 | again, without any evidence, that he believes Tylenol, a paracetamol drug in the US, is linked to |
| 1:07.8 | autism. It isn't. But how easy is it to laugh off the words of the President? |
| 1:14.6 | Because just by saying it, isn't he going to affect the behaviour of millions of people on the basis of, well, next to nothing? |
| 1:25.6 | Welcome to the Newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. Go on, say that again. It's John. Yes. It's John, mate. Good day. Good day. How you doing? I'm fine. So you're just going to go into Australian parrary. Yeah, I think I'll just, |
| 1:47.3 | yeah, exactly. Are you going to make jokes about, where's my bush hat with the corks hanging down? |
| 1:50.1 | Don't talk about your bush hat. Don't talk about anything like that. We got the timetams. We got the macadamias. We did not get the kangaroo. No. Where's my wallaby? well next time next time kangaroo steaks very good actually. I've heard one. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 2:01.5 | So Tylenol in America, what we call parasitamol in the UK, is now on Donald Trump's hit list. |
| 2:10.6 | And whilst there have been the odd study, which says that, you know, a huge usage of paracetamol during |
| 2:16.6 | pregnancy could cause problems. |
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