Donald Trump yesterday held a press conference alongside this Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jnr. During that conference Donald Trump falsely linked paracetamol, under its American market name of Tylenol, to autism made numerous false pronouncements on its causes and on vaccines.

We got reaction to these claims with Dr Brendan O’Shea, Assistant Adjuvant Professor in Public Health and Primary Care at Trinity College Dublin and Kildare GP and also Adam Harris, Founder and CEO, AsIAm .