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Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid $150K to give evidence against drug maker. The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol, and produced research that raises ‘serious concerns about bias’
The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol, and produced research that raises ‘serious concerns about bias’
Last month Dr Andrea Baccarelli, a senior public health academic at Harvard University, co-authored a review that linked acetaminophen — the active ingredient used in Tylenol — to autism and warned that pregnant women should “limit” their consumption of the drug. But in the summer of 2023 Baccarelli served as an expert witness during a class action lawsuit against Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol.A group of parents filed the suit in 2022 with a New York federal court, alleging their children’s autism and ADHD was a result of prenatal use of acetaminophen, which is called paracetamol outside North America. For example, a study in 2024 funded by the US government investigated about 2.5 million Swedish children and found some evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy causes autism, ADHD or other intellectual disabilities — but this association disappeared when the scientists compared one sibling who had been exposed with another who had not.
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