Kennedy Calls Tylenol Study Debunking Autism Linkage ‘Garbage’Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rejected the findings of a recent study that found no link between autism and Tylenol use during pregnancy, calling the research “garbage” and “fraudulent.”“The study is a garbage study; it should be retracted,” he told lawmakers when asked about the findings during Friday’s hearing before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.The study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA Pediatrics evaluated the potential association using the medical records of over a million women in Denmark.Kennedy argued that the study gleaned its information solely from prescriptions, which limited its scope of women who took acetaminophen, the pain reliever that’s often branded as Tylenol and can be purchased over the counter.“It was a garbage in, garbage out study. The industry has the capacity to generate these studies all the time and it’s fraudulent," he said.Kennedy has admitted that evidence does not show that Tylenol definitely causes autism but he has still urged caution when taking it during pregnancy. President Donald Trump, despite the lack of conclusive evidence, also told pregnant women last fall to “tough it out” and not take it if they have a fever, a direction that medical experts called “reckless and irresponsible.”See All UpdatesClose