Brett Meiselas tore apart Trump and Kennedy’s absurd press conference about Tylenol causing autism. Neither of them are doctors but they enjoy giving medical advice. Shades of injecting bleach to cure COVID!

Brett writes:

When we launched Meidas Health a few months ago, this is exactly what we had in mind. We wanted a platform that could respond immediately when disinformation threatens public safety. And make no mistake, what Donald Trump, RFK Jr., and Dr. Oz did from the Oval Office this week wasn’t just accidental misinformation, but deliberate, malicious, disinformation. Reckless, and dangerous. Left unchallenged, it is the kind of lie that gets people killed.

Dr. Vin Gupta, who leads Meidas Health, joined me for this emergency episode to set the record straight and cut through the fog of propaganda with facts, science, and evidence-based medicine.

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Let’s start with what Trump actually said. He stood in the Oval Office, surrounded by RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, and even the FDA commissioner, and told pregnant women not to take Tylenol. He couldn’t even pronounce the word acetaminophen, yet somehow felt qualified to declare it unsafe, despite having no evidence to support that claim. He claimed children shouldn’t receive vaccines like MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) together, insisted hepatitis B shots should be delayed until age 12, and nodded along as RFK Jr. declared he had never seen an elderly person with autism, as if that were meaningful science.

And then came the lies about the Amish, about Cuba, about autism being virtually nonexistent in those populations because they “don’t take vaccines.” This wasn’t just ignorance. It was a calculated performance of disinformation designed to confuse, scare, and undermine public trust in medicine.

We’ve seen this Trump show before. During COVID, it was bleach injections and hydroxychloroquine. Now it’s Tylenol and childhood vaccines. The difference? Back then, his own advisors looked at him like he was insane. Today, he surrounds himself with professional sycophants nodding along, giving legitimacy to his gibberish.

Dr. Gupta broke it down with precision. Large-scale, gold-standard research has already answered these questions. A Swedish study of 2.5 million children over 25 years showed no link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. That’s not speculation. It’s peer-reviewed data published in top medical journals and affirmed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Meanwhile, untreated fever during pregnancy is dangerous. Uncontrolled pain during pregnancy is dangerous. Tylenol is the only over-the-counter medication approved to treat fevers in pregnancy. Denying that reality isn’t just irresponsible. It’s cruel. It’s telling women to grit their teeth and suffer, all in the service of Trump’s warped ego and RFK Jr.’s long-debunked crusade.

On vaccines, the science is equally clear. Childhood immunizations are safe, effective, and life-saving. Delaying or denying them doesn’t protect children—it exposes them to serious and preventable diseases.

As I told Dr. Gupta, what Trump is doing isn’t random. It fits his authoritarian playbook. Strongmen across history have pretended that they alone can solve complex problems without experts, without science, without evidence. Trump thrives on bending reality, doubling down on lies, and creating chaos until people don’t know what’s true anymore.

He doesn’t care if pregnant women suffer or if children die of preventable diseases. What he cares about is control over truth, over institutions, over people’s very bodies. It’s the same pathology we’ve seen in his cover-ups, in his “hoax” rhetoric, in his disdain for science and expertise.

The damage is already happening. Pediatricians and OB-GYNs across the country are fielding frantic questions from parents and expecting mothers who shouldn’t have to wonder whether it’s safe to give their child Tylenol for a fever. Doctors are already overburdened, yet Trump and his allies deliberately sow confusion that drives up fear, mistrust, and unnecessary strain on the health system.

This is real-world harm. And it falls hardest on women, children, and families without consistent access to care—the very people who most need clear, accurate guidance.

That’s why Meidas Health exists. When Trump and his lackeys pollute the public square with lies, we will always be here with rapid response, with medical experts, with truth. But this fight can’t just be left to doctors and journalists.

We need corporate America, which provides health benefits to half of all U.S. adults, to show moral clarity and reject this nonsense. We need leaders across politics, business, and culture to stand up and say enough is enough. Short-term profit and transactional deals are meaningless if we allow authoritarian lies to dismantle the very fabric of public health.