Fact Check: No, RFK Jr. Did Not Just Claim Circumcision Causes Autism

It didn’t take long after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a cabinet meeting on Thursday that the headlines began rolling out: The media’s favorite Trump-adjacent punching bag had said that circumcision causes autism.

It was so widely reported that even the New York Post — purportedly Gotham’s right-of-center newspaper — trumpeted the claim as if it were factual.

The initial headline, as published on Thursday afternoon: “Circumcision ‘highly likely’ linked to autism, RFK Jr. says in wild new Tylenol claim.”

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).

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Morristown, New Jersey

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Catholic University of America

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