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Fact-checking Trump’s autism announcement

Fact-checking Trump’s autism announcement

Science Weekly vor 1 Jahr

Madeleine Finlay speaks to science editor Ian Sample to factcheck the statements made and find out what decades of scientific research into autism tells us about its causes and why diagnoses of the condition are on the rise

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In a televised press conference on Monday, Donald Trump and health
secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr made a series of unproven claims
about autism and its links to paracetamol use in pregnant women,
and about childhood vaccinations. The comments were immediately
refuted by scientists and health agencies around the world, but
many expressed concern about the impact of this misinformation
being repeated at the highest levels of government. So what does
the science really say? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Guardian science
editor Ian Sample to factcheck the claims made in the announcement,
and find out what decades of scientific research into autism tells
us about its causes and why diagnoses are on the rise. Help support
our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod