'We feel it is important to fact check': MSNBC pushes back on new Trump Tylenol claim

MSNBC Dr. Vin Gupta was hauled into the studio to call out President Donald Trump's tall tale about Tylenol.

In a Truth Social post Friday morning, Trump demanded in all capital letters that pregnant women "DON’T USE TYLENOL..."

Trump announced his war against the over-the-counter pain reliever earlier this week, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., who is neither a scientist nor a doctor.

"Because the president has put that out there, we feel it's important to fact-check all of that," said host Ana Cabrera.

Appearing on video from a hospital room and dressed in scrubs, Dr. Gupta promised that pregnant women and children can safely take Tylenol.

"As you and I have talked about recently, there is the highest quality clinical research published public, that looked at 2.5 million children in Sweden. And specifically, it looked at children and it looked at siblings of children who took Tylenol or whose moms took Tylenol during pregnancy, compared it to siblings, where those same moms didn't take Tylenol during pregnancy. So sibling matched studies. And what they found was that when you account for family genetics and environmental risk factors, all the things you need to a specific family, you account for those variables, taking Tylenol during pregnancy or not taking Tylenol during pregnancy does not in any way increase your risk of autism."

It means that the "best quality research does not substantiate what the president put out there."

A federal judge dismissed hundreds of lawsuits from families alleging Tylenol caused autism a year ago.

Dr. Gupta went on to encourage moms to feel comfortable using Tylenol for lowering fevers.

He also fact-checked Trump's attack on the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, saying that it doesn't need to be broken up.

"You know, I'm not sure who's advising him, but those three shots measles, mumps, rubella and that's what constitutes MMR, that vaccine that does not exist as monovalent vaccines," he said noting that it isn't even available to get separately.

"So, I don't know what he's talking about," Dr. Gupta confessed.

He also said that it's fine to break up the chickenpox vaccine from MMR between 12 and 15 months of age. Prior to Trump, it was recommended that those be taken at different times.

Sociology professor at California Polytechnic State University, Martine Lappé, told NPR that Trump's accusations are part of "a long history of blaming mothers in this country, and we're seeing that reinforced through the narratives around autism's causes right now."

The comments add to a long list of doctors and scientific experts who challenge the idea that Tylenol causes Autism.