{"id":23910,"date":"2025-09-26T04:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=23910"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:38:56","slug":"why-is-the-trump-administration-obsessed-with-autism-podcast-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=23910","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Trump administration obsessed with autism? \u2013 podcast | Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has long been consumed by the neurological condition autism \u2013 what causes it, and whether there\u2019s a treatment. This week, Donald Trump took on the cause, making claims about acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol and paracetamol, that were dismissed outright by medical experts around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Freedland speaks to Carter Sherman, the reproductive health and justice reporter at Guardian US, about when and why the obsession with autism became political<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has long been consumed by the neurological condition autism \u2013 what causes it, and whether there\u2019s a treatment. This week, Donald Trump took on the cause, making claims about acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol and paracetamol, that were dismissed outright by medical experts around the world. Jonathan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[794,5814,860,515,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-23910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-administration","9":"tag-autism","10":"tag-obsessed","11":"tag-podcast","12":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}