Podcast host Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” Friday called out pregnant women who have been filming themselves consuming Tylenol in objection to President Donald Trump’s administration’s recommendation not to do so.
TikTok users ingested large amounts of Tylenol to mock Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after announcing the findings of an association between the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women and autism diagnoses in children. Rogan noted on his podcast that the Trump administration cited a Harvard study to support its findings.
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“I’ve been fascinated by these videos of pregnant women taking Tylenol to show Trump that they don’t believe in what RFK Jr. is saying, that it’s somehow or another anti-science — when this science came from Harvard,” Rogan said. “That’s where the study came from. He’s not making things up. And these people are like on TikTok — they’re pregnant women taking Tylenol.”
The National Institutes of Health under former President Joe Biden’s administration also recommended pregnant women “minimize exposure by using the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time” if they had to use acetaminophen.
In most TikTok videos viewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday, users seemed to be consuming recommended doses. One video showed a pregnant woman displaying two Tylenol capsules before ingesting them.
“Here’s is me, a PREGNANT woman, taking TYLENOL because I believe in science and not someone who has no medical background,” text on the video says.
Moreover, the pharmaceutical company behind Tylenol privately acknowledged the likelihood of a link between its drug in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism in children seven years ago, company records obtained by the DCNF show.
“The weight of the evidence is starting to feel heavy to me,” said Rachel Weinstein, U.S. director of epidemiology for Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson, in 2018. Johnson & Johnson marketed Tylenol at the time but spun off its consumer products division in 2023 into a separate firm called Kenvue.
Legacy media outlets and public health experts have dismissed Trump and Kennedy’s findings. However, the makers of Tylenol have for years perceived the evidence as sufficiently credible enough to act upon, at least privately.
“Taking Tylenol is not good. For this reason they are strongly recommending women limit Tylenol use when pregnant unless medically necessary,” Trump said on Monday.
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