US President Donald Trump, in front of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delivers remarks linking autism to childhood vaccines and to the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children, claims which are not backed by decades of science, at the White House in Washington September 22, 2025. \u2014 Reuters pic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note: quack<\/strong> (Cambridge Dictionary)<\/p>\n\n\n\n noun<\/em><\/strong> [ C ]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n uk<\/strong> \/kw\u00e6k\/ us<\/strong> \/kw\u00e6k\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n disapproving<\/p>\n\n\n\n a\u00a0person<\/a>\u00a0who\u00a0dishonestly<\/a>\u00a0pretends<\/a>\u00a0to have\u00a0medical<\/a>\u00a0skills<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0knowledge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n WASHINGTON, Sept 23 \u2014 From the unproven medical claims to the self-proclaimed expertise, anyone watching Donald Trump\u2019s autism announcements today could have been forgiven for having flashbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were strong echoes of the US president\u2019s pandemic performance during his first term, when he once famously mused about injecting disinfectant to counter Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Five years later, the Republican\u2019s claims were almost as eye-popping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And with the health of millions at stake as he urged pregnant women not to take the painkiller Tylenol \u2014 before expounding his theories on vaccines \u2014 the stakes were just as high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s a rumour \u2014 and I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s so or not \u2014 that Cuba, they don\u2019t have Tylenol because they don\u2019t have the money for Tylenol. And they have virtually no autism,\u201d Trump said at the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was perhaps the most outrageous of the claims Trump made during a more than hour-long press conference attended by an AFP reporter \u2014 but it was far from the last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Amish, as an example. They have essentially no autism,\u201d Trump said of the traditionalist people, known for their horse-drawn carts and rejection of modern technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turning to his vaccine-sceptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, as he asked whether that was actually true, Trump added: \u201cBobby wants to be very careful with what he says. I\u2019m not so careful with what I say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time and again the 79-year-old Trump admitted that his personal theories were just that \u2014 theories \u2014 even as he cast himself in the role of America\u2019s physician-in-chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is based on what I feel,\u201d said Trump as he repeated long debunked concerns over the MMR shot combining vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump also urged further spacing for childhood vaccines that have been the cornerstone of public health programs around the world for decades \u2014 before adding: \u201cI\u2019m not a doctor but I\u2019m giving my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Tough it out\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The billionaire former reality TV star has long made his name challenging the conventional wisdom on politics and diplomacy, and it has won him two elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it is on health where his views have often veered furthest from the mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the Covid pandemic Trump repeatedly resisted lockdowns and masking measures, while throwing his weight behind unproven drugs like hydroxychloroquine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was widely mocked when, during one of his many freewheeling White House briefings on Covid in 2020, he gave some increasingly bizarre suggestions about how to treat the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump mused about bringing \u201clight inside the body\u201d \u2014 and disinfectant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI see the disinfectant, it knocks it out in a minute… is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside,\u201d he asked a bemused expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his second term, Trump\u2019s pick of Kennedy as his health secretary has brought once fringe medical ideas into the heart of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump himself says he has long been preoccupied with autism, and showed supreme confidence in his views yesterday \u2014 even as he struggled to pronounce \u201cacetaminophen,\u201d or paracetamol, the active ingredient in Tylenol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDon\u2019t take it,\u201d Trump said repeatedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He urged pregnant women in pain to avoid the drug and \u201ctough it out,\u201d but had few answers for what they should do for fevers that could harm them or their babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Veering off on the subject of vaccines, Trump also had his own theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He insisted that children should not be vaccinated against Hepatitis B until the age of 12, versus soon after birth, saying: \u201cHepatitis B is sexually transmitted. There\u2019s no reason to give a baby that\u2019s almost just born hepatitis B.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump added that children were being loaded up with \u201ctoo much liquid\u201d while being innoculated against potentially fatal diseases \u2014 repeating a frequent anti-vaccine talking point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies, it\u2019s a disgrace,\u201d he said. \u201cIt looks like they\u2019re pumping into a horse.\u201d \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US President Donald Trump, in front of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. 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