Little more than a month after making specious claims that there’s a link between Tylenol use and autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now admitted there’s “not sufficient” evidence to support the medical nonsense he and President Donald Trump loudly and proudly promoted.

"The causative association between Tylenol given in pregnancy and the perinatal period is not sufficient to say it definitely causes autism. But it is very suggestive,” Kennedy said Oct. 29.

OK, great. So the nation’s top health official is dispensing medical advice based on vibes?

This is yet another example of how utterly unqualified Kennedy is to be in charge of America’s health, and it’s what we get when a president staffs his Cabinet with quacks and conspiracy theorists.

On Sept. 22, Kennedy and Trump stood together and held a news conference that Trump had wildly billed as presenting “an answer to autism.”

After Trump babbled, with great certainty, that Tylenol is “associated with a very increased risk of autism,” Kennedy proudly announced: “Today, the (Food and Drug Administration) will issue a physician's notice about the risk of acetaminophen during pregnancy and begin the process to initiate a safety label........

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