US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has floated a bizarre,

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has floated a bizarre, unsubstantiated link between circumcised babies and increased cases of autism, in the latest in a long and increasingly bizarre line of communications from the US's top health official.

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US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed that "children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism," which he attributes to being given Tylenol. US President Donald Trump has backed the claim, noting that "as a physician, I have studied this for a long time."

This claim follows previous communications from the White House that directly linked paracetamol—specifically brand-name Tylenol—to autism in children. No link between the two has been conclusively proven, and medical experts have strongly pushed back on the claims.