RFK Jr.’s Autism Claims Spark National Backlash — What Really Happened Behind the Scenes

But Kennedy didn’t stop there. Instead, he introduced new claims he had never publicly emphasized before — claims that immediately prompted alarm from medical professionals.

This included an assertion that boys circumcised in infancy allegedly had “double the rate of autism,” a statement he tied to the idea that they received Tylenol afterward. To many listening in the room, the leap from a surgical procedure to a developmental condition sounded both dramatic and deeply unsettling.Continue reading…