15% of Americans agree that Tylenol causes autism

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05 Oct 2025, 6:51 am

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A clear majority of Americans (69%) agree that "autism is a complex condition that can't be reduced to a single cause,” according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll.

That number includes 59% of Republicans.

But while the new Yahoo/YouGov survey of 1,676 U.S. adults shows some openness to the idea that "autism rates are increasing mostly because of something that kids are being exposed to" — 41% say they agree, 31% say they disagree and 28% are unsure — most Americans do not accept single-cause explanations for autism. For instance:

Only 17% agree that "vaccines cause autism"; 56% disagree and 26% are unsure

Only 15% agree that "Tylenol and other medications that contain acetaminophen cause autism"; 49% disagree and 36% are unsure

Just 3% “strongly” agree that Tylenol and other acetaminophen-based pain relievers cause autism

As a result, relatively few Americans (25%) say they would discourage pregnant women from taking Tylenol. Most say they would either encourage the practice (16%) or remain neutral (48%).

Do Americans trust medical advice from Trump and RFK Jr.?
Poll results suggest Americans are hesitant to take medical advice from Trump. A full 64% say they wouldn’t trust such advice “at all”; another 10% say they would trust it only “a little.” A mere 6% say they would trust the president’s medical advice “a great deal.”

Even half of Republicans (50%) say they would trust medical advice from Trump only a little or not at all.

Kennedy’s trust numbers are similar: 66% “not at all”; 12% “a little”; just 8% “a great deal.”

The administration’s recent pronouncements on Tylenol and autism also coincide with a negative shift in Kennedy’s favorable rating. In August, 40% of Americans viewed Kennedy favorably; 46% viewed him unfavorably. Today, those numbers are 36% and 49% respectively.

The Yahoo survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1,676 U.S. adults interviewed online from Sept. 25 to Sept. 29, 2025. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2024 election turnout and presidential vote, party identification and current voter registration status. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Party identification is weighted to the estimated distribution at the time of the election (31% Democratic, 32% Republican). Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel to be representative of all U.S. adults. The margin of error is approximately 3%.

This might be the best news I have read in a long time.

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05 Oct 2025, 5:07 pm

The good news is that so many Americans understand Tylenol is not the cause.

The bad news is that so many official decisions are apparently being made by people that get it wrong.

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07 Oct 2025, 3:19 pm

The Land Of The Free, everyone.

Free of common sense, free of intelligence, free of morals, free of tolerance, free of gun control...

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08 Oct 2025, 1:52 am

lostonearth35 wrote:

The Land Of The Free, everyone.

Free of common sense, free of intelligence, free of morals, free of tolerance, free of gun control...

America has gun control.

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19 Oct 2025, 4:28 am

15 Percent of Americans are stupid to believe such garbage.

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19 Oct 2025, 6:30 am

That is a pretty low number compared to other issues.

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19 Oct 2025, 7:18 am

I feel bad for those who are so stupid that they take their medical advice from Trump.

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27 Oct 2025, 2:14 pm

15 Percent of Americans have their heads in the clouds.

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29 Oct 2025, 3:56 pm

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15 Percent of Americans have their heads in the clouds.

Wait a second...they say everything is dark and the clouds smell like methane... :eew:

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05 Dec 2025, 11:05 am

Based upon " that's what I think" type of mindset. :roll: . Still dealing with the nonsense about vaccines causing autism. People parroting that I'd like to launch into the sun

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07 Dec 2025, 4:53 pm

I'd wager that if this same poll had been taken last year, the percentage saying yes would be roughly zero. Unlike the vaccine claim which goes back more than 25 years, this one seems to have just appeared out of the blue this year (maybe the claim existed before but it certainly wasn't widely known), and the 15% who believe it are just a mix of very hardcore MAGA cultists who believe literally anything the Trump Admin says, and the weird-medicine crowd who probably liked RFK even back when he called himself a Democrat (and there's always been a bigger overlap between those two crowds than a lot of people realize).

As distressing as this all is, I admit I'm getting some morbid enjoyment over the freakout from the corporation that owns Tylenol as well as any company that distributes pills which include acetaminophen/paracetamol. Probably a lot of these corporations are Republican-leaning, were privately cheering when Trump won last year, and were caught totally off guard by this.

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07 Dec 2025, 5:02 pm

A significant portion of Americans will believe literally anything that comes out of Trump's mouth, with or without evidence. If Trump said the Moon was made of cheese, his supporters would probably board a rocketship with a bunch of crackers like Wallace and Gromit.

Also, I just want to point out that the agenda behind this whole conspiracy theory is to deprive pregnant women of any pain relief they might be able to get. It's no mistake that they chose to attack the one medication that's approved for pain relief in pregnant women. As with anything else that the right does, the cruelty is the point.

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07 Dec 2025, 5:08 pm

kokopelli wrote:

I feel bad for those who are so stupid that they take their medical advice from Trump.

I wish they'd listened to Trump when he said to inject bleach to prevent COVID-19. Maybe then we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now.

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30 Jan 2026, 10:45 am

It probably does, in fact I'm gonna go crush up some tylenol and snort 'em so I can be even more autistic :twisted:

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30 Jan 2026, 2:07 pm

Why make a poll asking people with no expertise what they think is the cause of autism? How could they possibly have an informed opinion on that?

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30 Jan 2026, 2:23 pm

BillyTree wrote:

Why make a poll asking people with no expertise what they think is the cause of autism? How could they possibly have an informed opinion on that?

They might have a semi-informed opinion on the sources of information.

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