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Fri Oct 10, 2025, 11:54 PM Oct 10

RFK Jr. Mocked for Getting Grade-School Biology Wrong [View all]

Speaking about the reaction to his controversial claim that taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism, Kennedy delivered an anecdote from his time on the internet.

“Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant, an associate professor at Columbia University,” said the 71-year-old Secretary. “She was saying ‘F Trump’ and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta.”

Kennedy appeared to be referring to a video by Dr. Michelle Vu, a second-year fellow at Columbia University specializing in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility. In the video, Vu says she’s 28 weeks pregnant and then takes some Tylenol, confidently saying her baby won’t have autism. Vu was one of several pregnant women who filmed themselves taking Tylenol as a show that they did not trust Kennedy’s medical advice.

The secretary’s mix-up of the uterus and placenta went viral on social media, as women and medical professionals joked through their frustration that the person in charge of health in America appeared so clueless about basic science and anatomy.

“With her baby in her placenta? How’d it get in there?” joked political columnist Erin Ryan.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-mocked-getting-grade-212017698.html

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