In announcing that circumcision doubles the rate of autism, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contributes to an atmosphere of disinformation.

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In October 2025, after a meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump's Cabinet, a claim (archived) circulated online that ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested there may be a link between autism and circumcision while reasserting the unproven theory ...

Taylor Swift took the world by storm with the release of her twelfth album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Friday. Since its release, fans on social media have been drawing comparisons between tracks on ...

Mitchell is a professor of medicine and vice chair for research in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. During the recent White ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a $362,493 contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate any links between vaccinations and autism spectrum disorder. The ...

The Trump administration raised concerns about a potential link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism. Medical experts and major health organizations state there is no proven cause-and ...

Snopes reporters have worked to dispel several of these claims, many of them centered around the longstanding and thoroughly debunked rumor that vaccines cause autism. For example, we determined that ...

The federal administration offered health guidance at a press conference this week, urging pregnant women to avoid using the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen, marketed in the U.S. as Tylenol, ...

President Donald Trump has pushed an unproven claim that links autism and Tylenol. Dr. Sara Rodrigues of Fall River will join a national panel of autism experts talking about the issue. The panel will ...