Donald Trump is practicing medicine without a license in declaring that pregnant women should not take acetaminophen (brand name Tylenol) because it will cause autism in their children. He went even further than his crank Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the HHS doctors who stood with them in the Roosevelt Room on Monday.

Trump repeated again and again and again his advice to pregnant women, falsely asserting that there was clear evidence that the over the counter drug led to autism, mostly based on one inconclusive Harvard study, going much further than the already-extreme Food and Drug Administration guidance on the matter.

There are good reasons why U.S. presidents have historically been very, very careful about what they speak on and how they choose

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