Donald Trump alarmed health professionals the world over this week when he claimed that taking paracetamol, or acetaminophen as it is known in the U.S., during pregnancy was linked to a child’s risk of autism. Experts immediately began debunking the president’s claims — with many citing the findings of a landmark 2024 paper from researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The authors of that paper – Renee Gardner, Brian Lee and Viktor H.