[Global Times special reporter Liu Heung] "Don't eat tenor anymore!" on 22 local time, U.S. President Trump once again exploded astonishing remarks, claiming that the most common painkillers on the market are associated with children's autism. This serious lack of arguments and unconfirmed claims, immediately triggered rejection by Western multi-national medical experts, and is viewed by the public as an extension of Trump Band's "anti-vaccine, anti-science" argument.
At a press conference at the White House on Monday, Trump pointed out the "root" of child autism to the important component of the painkillers, acetaminophen (painkillers). he said in his speech: "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will give guidelines to the majority of doctors to notify them that the use of acetaminophen for pregnant patients will increase the risk of (neonatal) autism ... I said that eating tenor is bad for the body, right?" the media noted that the phrase, "Don't eat tenor" was repeatedly stressed by Trump at the conference, and he even encouraged pregnant women to "bite tooth" when there is pain, and can only be taken when the body has high fever "dangerous symptoms".
Not only that, Trump also pointed the finger at the vaccine again, claiming that some ingredients in the vaccine and factors such as concentrated injection of multiple vaccines would "increase the incidence of autism", but also did not give any arguments.
The media have pointed out that the cognition of autism by federal government officials represented by Trump is contrary to the mainstream academic views. Most medical experts believe that the formation of autism is the result of the combination of individual genes and environmental factors. Last year, a medical survey covering 2.5 million Swedish children showed that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy did not increase the risk of autism in newborns. The New York Times mentioned that there are about 600 kinds of drugs containing acetaminophen, such as Tylenol, in the United States, and on average, as many as a quarter of American adults take such drugs every week. The statement that "vaccination leads to autism" has long been falsified. In the past 30 years, dozens of related studies around this topic have been carried out, but it has never been proved that there is any connection between the two.
Trump's latest remarks triggered criticism from medical experts and health departments in many countries, and were accused of being "irresponsible". Kaplan, a bioethicist at new york University, criticized Trump for "taking lies as advice", which was "the saddest look of those in power" he had ever seen. The British Medicines and Health Products Administration and the Australian Medical Goods Administration voiced their voices respectively, emphasizing the safety of common painkillers. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation criticized Trump's remarks as spreading anxiety and putting pressure on pregnant women who relieve their pain by taking medicine normally.