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Food and Drug Administrator Dr. Marty Makary sent to physicians this week made clear that “a causal relationship” between autism and acetaminophen “has not been established and there are contrary studies in the scientific literature.”

The discovery, published in one if the world's leading scientific journals, Science, shocked the research team, which included scientists from a university in China and the UK's Natural History Museum.

"Believe it or not, human eyes are one of the best scientific instruments that we have," she said.

Instead, the policy will create incentives to move high-tech and scientific activity to other countries, effectively offshoring economic activity that should occur in the U.S., he says.

The scientific evidence for doing so is weak, researchers said.