Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rejected the findings of a recent Danish 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 this week 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 he said 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.
