Global health agencies and regulators have dismissed unscientific advice from Donald Trump that made an unproven link between autism and the use of everyday painkillers and vaccines. He also said, in comments that risk exposing children to fatal diseases, that parents of young children should delay or avoid some vaccines. The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that questioning the value of lifesaving vaccines was misguided and that ​e​vidence linking paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism w​as “inconsistent”​. “So I would just say to people watching: don’t pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine. Trump made his announcement alongside his health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has a record of making unproven claims about autism and other conspiracy theories linked to health and vaccines.