In 1970, the Albany Democrat-Herald reported on autism research at UCLA that had been underway for a decade. At a time when parenting was widely speculated to cause autism, the findings pointed instead to the brain and reflected nearly 30 years of study, decades before Tylenol was on shelves.
Contrary to recent claims from Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism was studied decades before Tylenol existed. In 1921, Dr. Stewart Paton described “autistic thinking” as wish-driven daydreams contrasted with logical thought.
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya announced a plan to speed up autism research by creating a centralized data registry combining medical records, genetics, and more. While it could help researchers understand rising autism rates, the effort is already raising concerns about privacy.
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