United States health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday courted a controversy by asserting an unproven link between circumcision, the use of Tylenol, and autism , during a meeting with president Donald Trump and Cabinet members. Kennedy claimed that infant boys who are circumcised have double the rate of autism because they are given Tylenol after the procedure. The statement appeared to reference a 2015 study in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, which examined ritual circumcision and the risk of autism spectrum disorder among boys under the age of 10 in Denmark. The study found that circumcised boys were more likely to be diagnosed with autism, though researchers clearly stated they had no data on painkillers or anaesthetics used and therefore could no

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