Sometimes I sit there, read the news, and wonder if maybe it\u2019s me. Maybe I\u2019m the last one who missed the memo. Maybe the new reality is simply that the Health Secretary of the United States, in an official Cabinet meeting, lectures about the metaphysical connection between penile foreskin and autism - and does so with the confidence of a man who believes evolution was a misunderstanding by Big Pharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So am I crazy? Or is it the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., heir to a great name and destroyer of what little reason remained, seriously declared that children are twice as likely to have autism if they are circumcised - because they are given Tylenol afterward. I repeat this just to make sure it\u2019s not my brain but the planet that\u2019s losing it: circumcised children, Tylenol, autism. Welcome to the 21st century, where science is no longer verified but googled, and the Health Secretary recycles quotes from Facebook comment sections. In the past, people said, \u201cIt\u2019s in the Bible.\u201d Today they say, \u201cIt was in some Danish study, I think.\u201d Only that this study proved nothing except that pain hurts. The researchers wrote: We don\u2019t know whether painkillers play a role. Kennedy read: Tylenol is the devil, circumcision his instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n