“I’m not sure where you can actually come down in terms of mentally where you’re going to put up a video saying, ‘I’m going to take this and if my kid gets autism, then so be it,’ I’m sorry, to prove a point?” Concha said on The Evening Edit<\/em>. “I’m reacting more emotionally than as a journalist, a reporter, an analyst because, Ashley, it’s just a whole bowl of wrong.” <\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> and members of his Cabinet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3817676\/trump-administration-to-warn-against-using-tylenol-autism-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> on Monday recommendations against taking Tylenol during pregnancy because of an associated risk of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >child developing autism spectrum disorder<\/a>, ADHD, and other neurodevelopmental disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Since the announcement, former practicing doctors who’ve been elected to Congress have warned pregnant women to “ask their doctor” before taking Trump’s Tylenol advice. <\/p>\n<p>Concha argued that there are more autism cases now than there were 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3818270\/tylenol-autism-safety-risk-pregnancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TYLENOL AND AUTISM: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT SAFETY RISK IN PREGNANCY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>“We should be concerned about that. What is causing this? And we have[HealthandHumanServicesSecretary[HealthandHumanServicesSecretary<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rfk-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Robert F. Kenney Jr.<\/a>]  in there who has been pursuing this answer his whole life, so I just think this isn’t a laughable matter.”<\/p>\n<p>Concha highlighted that he has many friends who, “unfortunately,” have children with autism. <\/p>\n<p>“Not just for the child, but for the parents, it’s a life-changing event like you would never know, and to laugh about this or think that ‘OK, well we probably shouldn’t try to pursue certain remedies around this,’ I just can’t get my head around it,” he said. “We’re at a weird place right now.”  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tylenol link to autism is serious, not a joke: Joe Concha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":2491590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25266664824301-e1758898115258.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[16027,52093,63801],"class_list":["post-2491589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-autism","tag-joe-concha","tag-tylenol"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25266664824301-e1758898115258.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491593,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491589\/revisions\/2491593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}