As expected the long-awaited announcement on the so-called links between Autism and Tylenol have been announced. Before we begin we have to warn you the claims are as ludicrous as they are misleading.
The Lowdown
On Monday, the Trump Administration formally revealed its alleged findings that link the use of Tylenol during pregnancy to the rise of autism. The problem with these claims is that discovery of autism happened in 1911 with the first case occurring in 1943. With that in mind Tylenol wasn’t created until 1955 by McNeil Laboratories.
THE FACTS:
The term autism was first coined in 1911 in the scientific paper “Zur Theorie des schizophrenen Negativismus” by a German psychiatrist named Paul Eugene Blueler. According to this website, the first knwon major case of autism was a young boy named Donald Triplett in 1943.The term was originally used to describe a symptom related to schizophrenia. Though up until about the mid 1970 ‘s autism was largely still treated as if it were a form of schizophrenia. In the United States beginning in the 1980 ‘s medical professionals and other began to take autism seriously leading to increased social awareness of the disorder.