“We’ve got a lot of stupid people in this country running things.”— President Trump, speaking to reporters this afternoon. Indeed. Perhaps the first time Trump has ever uttered a completely true statement.

Trump says Tylenol causes autism and orders Americans to stop using it. Autism was first recognized as a disorder in 1911. Tylenol was invented in 1950. So unless Tylenol went back in time, such direct causation is factually impossible. And I think it can be stated that every American at some point in their lives has taken Tylenol, or at least their mothers have taken it. And not every American has Autism.

In his autism announcement, Donald Trump borrowed a strategy from RFK Jr.: pushing ahead with sensational conclusions based on a handful of disputed studies, Tom Bartlett writes.

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