It didn’t take long after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a cabinet meeting on Thursday that the headlines began rolling out: The media’s favorite Trump-adjacent punching bag had said that circumcision causes autism.

It was so widely reported that even the New York Post — purportedly Gotham’s right-of-center newspaper — trumpeted the claim as if it were factual.

The initial headline, as published on Thursday afternoon: “Circumcision ‘highly likely’ linked to autism, RFK Jr. says in wild new Tylenol claim.”

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