Major media begin to push back on Trump
Meanwhile, Fox "News" continues to mislead MAGAs and elevate conspiracy theories over science, feeding the fixation on finding blame for autism
The Washington Post and The New York Times are finally pushing back on President Trump’s lies. Both newspapers published stories with headlines that question Trump’s medical advice on pregnant women using acetaminophen.
“As Trump ties Tylenol to autism, doctors raise alarms” Washington Post
“Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism” The New York Times
The people who need to see these headlines won’t, however. Over at the place many MAGAs go for their news — Fox “News” — the charade continues of taking dictation from Trump as if he were telling the truth and/or making sense.
There’s just no cleaning up the mess, so I’m just going to share it as is.
Fox readers and viewers will have missed the important lede in the Times piece, which lays out the situation rather well:
President Trump and top federal health officials on Monday launched a broad offensive against the mainstream understanding of autism, claiming without new evidence that acetaminophen — the active ingredient in the common pain reliever Tylenol — was a cause of the disorder.
The term “without evidence” has become a code to MAGAs that there is a conspiracy by “demonic leftists” working round the clock preventing the actual truth from coming out, not to mention all the medical researchers and doctors and nurses who are conspiring to keep the “lie” going. Folks in the medical profession take their professional oaths very seriously, something that can’t be said for many elected officials in D.C.