Pennsylvania House Democrats on Tuesday sorted through fact, misinformation and fear over new federal guidance from the Trump administration linking the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy with autism.

During the 90-minute hearing by the House Democratic Policy Committee, a panel of three medical experts aggressively pushed back on what they described as blatant misinformation from unqualified “amateurs” and conspiracy theorists at the federal level.

“We have a Secretary of Health and Human Services who describes autistic people as devoid of words, who seems unaware of the breadth of the spectrum,” said Dr. David Mandell, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

“We have calls for an autism registry that harken back to a time when eugenics was

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