Listen to the full episode here. When RFK Jr announced that Tylenol might be implicated in autism, he forefronted correlative research that has yet to prove causation. That didn’t stop a number of MAHA-pilled wellness influencers from running with the narrative. Derek looks at their posts, as well as the immediate pushback, after breaking down Kennedy’s slipperiness during the press conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| This is absolutely disgusting, distorting information about a safe medicine to promote fear mongering. | |
| Autism has been around well before Tylenol, and any of y'all legitimizing anything this administration is doing needs to be reported to your board. | |
| Well, I'm not sure what board Will Cole would have to answer to. | |
| His primary medical training is in chiropractic, but I'm not aware of him practicing that anymore. | |
| He's got a bunch of certificates in functional medicine. | |
| But since there's not any sort of ethics boards or state medical board accreditations, what is Mark Hyman gonna finger wag at him? | |
| Doubtful, especially since the man is close friends with RFK Jr., and I've never seen any real criticism coming from Hyman about anything that Kennedy claims. | |
| I'm not gonna lie, I'm actually a bit heartened seeing some of the feedback to the claim that Tylenol may cause autism. | |
| I mean, some of it is completely conspiratorial, which is to be expected at this point. | |
| But a few people, like Will Cole and Dave Asprey and Austin Lake, they got absolutely hammered by their followers on social media for sharing this supposed link between acetaminophen and autism. | |
| And for good reason, all the supposed gold standard research on the White House's page about this link shows a possible association, a correlation, which is important to note, but not definitive proof of a causal relationship. | |
| So when Donald Trump stands up and blurts out, don't take Tylenol. | |
| There's no downside. | |
| Don't take it. | |
| You'll be uncomfortable. | |
| It won't be as easy, maybe. | |
| But don't take it. | |
| If you're pregnant, don't take Tylenol. | |
| And don't give it to the baby after the baby is born. | |
| I mean, look, no one is expecting Trump to do science. | |
| But there is a world of difference between Deborah Burks' horrified face while our boss stands there and says we can inject a light or use bleach to treat COVID, or what we saw last week with the Maha lackeys standing stoic behind the man while he rattles off his latest word salad. | |
| Kennedy has demanded the same sort of blind allegiance from those around him, Badacharya, Mackery, Oz, and they've all delivered just as Kennedy has to Trump. | |
| This Thursday, Mallory DeMille returns to break down a TikTok trend around the Tylenol announcement, and we're going to look at the wellness griffs that immediately launched after the announcement that acetaminophen is implicated in autism. | |
| Today, for this bonus episode, I want to review what Kennedy himself said during the press conference. | |
| Then I'm going to get into the responses to the wellness folks, some of which were towing Kennedy's line, and some of which were like calling bullshit on him. | |
| I'm Derek Barris, and you're listening to a Conspirituality bonus episode, The Wellness Civil War. | |
| Let's get into it. | |
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