Misinformation from top health officials in the Trump administration has created a "crisis of public trust" - and Congress should conduct oversight hearings and possibly impeach officials such as Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a recently released report.

Experts say that officials in the past year have focused intently on both vaccines and autism, including efforts to connect autism to the use of acetaminophen (frequently sold as Tylenol) during pregnancy, despite growing evidence of no link, and replacing all members of the federal autism committee with advisers who have anti-vaccine and pseudoscientific histories.

The first meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) was abruptly postponed in March and rescheduled for Tuesday, the same day the report was published by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD).
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The report includes a timeline of all HHS actions taken in the first year of the second Trump administration. Such changes have been "harmful to its mission" and "detrimental to the autistic community", such as widespread layoffs, reductions in force and terminations, cutting autism research by about $31m, and removing warnings about dangerous and unproven autism treatments from the website of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said Zoe Gross, director of advocacy at ASAN.

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