On Monday, President Donald Trump has repeatedly urged pregnant women not to take acetaminophen, claiming that doing so is associated with “a very increasing risk of autism.” His statements – which were immediately drawn warnings and retreat from experts – correspond to the leadership of medical advice that acetaminophen, when used properly, is safe during pregnancy.
The president, who has no medical background, did not provide any new guide to support his confirmation, and many respected medical organizations – including The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Mother Medicine Association– She refused to claim, while emphasizing that the search years did not find any causal link between the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and autism. Experts have also indicated that acetaminophen helps to manage pain and fever, both of which can be very dangerous for pregnant people and fetuses if they are left without treatment. This is the only drug that is not depicted by the accredited to treat fever during pregnancy.
Trump, who has appointed many skeptics of climate change and climate in the main positions of his departments, has made a number of wrong allegations and other skepticals about health and science over the years. Here are some of the most prominent.
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Covid-19
Trump has made many wrong allegations related to Covid-19s during his first term, including on many occasions that reduce the threat of the virus. In July 2020, for example, it is Assure “99 %” of cases is “completely harmful”-which was not the case in most public health experts, including his administration, at the time.
Trump made misleading comparisons between the virus and influenza as well, and writing in a Social media yet In October 2020: “The influenza season will come! Many people every year, sometimes more than 100,000, and despite the vaccine, they die from the influenza. Will we close our country? vast Data Research conducted by health and science experts has shown that Covid-19 is More lethal and more contagious From influenza viruses.
Also president Unintended treatments have been reinforced For the virus, including the suggestion that antiseptic injection in the body can be a potential treatment and suggests that researchers study whether to hit the body with “ultraviolet or very strong light” can help in fighting the virus. Doctors and public health experts on a large scale to caution The public is not injecting or eating antiseptics, and warned that doing this is dangerous.
In March 2020, Trump It was promoted “I think it might be a really incredible thing,” he said at the time. While acknowledged that he needed more research, he also said that the drugs were showing “very encouraging results.” Dr. Anthony Fushi, the leading expert on infectious diseases in the country, and other federal health officials I pushed back On Trump’s comments, with confirmation that there was no medicine installed to treat the virus at the time, and that two anti -malaria drugs have possible side effects.
Climate
Trump has repeatedly denied the existence of climate change. In April 2022, it is The name It is a “trick;” The following year, it is It is referred to as the name “One of the greatest jobs is deceived ever.” The overwhelming consensus between scholars, based on Contracts of researchIt is that the planet heats up and that change is caused by it Emissions of greenhouse gas generated by man.
Trump also has Proposal This, because cold weather events still occur, climate change cannot occur. But many climate scientists have credibility This argument, saying that freezing events can occur even amid climate change – but over time, these cold events will occur Less often and will not last for a long time.
On Tuesday, Trump repeated his previous comments on climate change, describing him as “the greatest job in perpetuation ever” and “fraud” while addressing the United Nations General Assembly.
The president also made a number of wrong or misleading data regarding renewable energy while pressing the expansion of fossil fuels, which were determined as being used as The main source It is a greenhouse gas emissions for humans. For example, an audio opponent claimed wind power Causes cancer. research He did not find this link.
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Vaccines
Soon after his second term, Trump indicated that he would be open to changing the childhood vaccination schedule and suggested that there is a link between vaccines and autism – demanding widely attention.
“The autism rate is at a level that no one believes at all,” Trump said in an interview with a person in 2024 of the year. “If you look at the things that happen, there is something that causes it.”
In that interview, Trump did not explicitly mention that vaccines caused autism, but he said that his administration would conduct a “very dangerous test.”
Earlier this month, Trump to publish A video clip on social media that promotes molecular contact. During the same event on Monday, when he contradicted medical experts with his allegations about acetaminophen, the president seemed once again suggesting a link between vaccines and autism, saying without providing evidence that “there are certain groups of people who do not receive vaccines and do not take any pills that do not contain autism.”
Autism It has been diagnosed often now From what it was in the past, which researchers are widely attributed to changes in how to define and diagnose autism. The prosecution that was revealed that the vaccines are linked to autism from a study conducted by the British digestive system Andrew and Wickfield in 1998 Lancet, Which has been refuted since then by many studies. In 2010, Lancet Study decline. The magazine editor described the study allegations as “completely wrong.” Wickfield lost his medical license in the United Kingdom in the same year, after officials said he had acted “in an unreasonable and irresponsible” in the research that led to its publication.
Trump did not oppose the vaccines or strengthened the wrong information on this topic with the same amount that some have erected in his party, and sometimes praised its effectiveness – even with the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, under the leadership of prominent vaccines, Robert F. During the epidemic, in his first term, Trump Honor The rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines, which is his achievement a description On multiple occasions. Earlier this month, it is He said Some vaccines are “very amazing” and “just pure and simple work”, ” It seems that the expression of reservations About Florida’s plan to eliminate all states of vaccines in the state.
miscarriage
Trump has made several miscarriages about miscarriage since the launch of his first presidential campaign in 2015.
Among them, claimed numerous Events that kill the fetuses immediately before birth or kill children after their birth.
Abortion later in pregnancy is rare. Less than 1 % of the miscarriage occurred in 2021 after 21 weeks of pregnancy, according to Disease control and prevention centers. The killing of a child after birth, in the meantime, will not be a miscarriage but the killing of children, which is illegal everywhere in the United States
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Sex assertion care
Days after Trump’s deposit for the second time, he is Fell Executive order entitled “Protecting children from chemical and surgical distortion.” The matter indicates the gender care as “chemical and surgical distortion” and claims that this care depends on “unwanted science.”
The main respected medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, supported the assurance of the sexes for transgender patients, as well as others who are looking for them, and opposing efforts to restrict access, Saying Gender care depends on evidence and can be medically necessary.