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Trump and the Nobel Prize
ecthompsonmd November 15, 2025

I want to spend a few minutes discussing the Black Church. The Black Church is something that I’ve taken for granted. Until recently, I haven’t really studied the matter. The Black Church was just something that existed. As most of you know, I grew up in Dallas. Almost every Sunday, our family worshiped in a Black Church. I never thought much about it. Like nearly everything in this country, race and racism are at the core. After the American Revolutionary War, Baptists and Methodists spread across the South. Ministers evangelized and established churches. The initial idea was to create unified churches,

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Autism and Acetaminophen
ecthompsonmd September 27, 2025

There is a reason that Trump and RFK, Jr. chose acetaminophen as opposed to any of the other medications that have been studied. Acetaminophen has complex and conflicting data.   First, if there were a clear link between acetaminophen exposure and autism, there would have been a HUGE announcement from the American Association of Psychiatrists. This would have been a eureka moment. There would have been dancing in the streets. No, I’m serious. Think about this just for a second. We have this mysterious disease. We have found genetic markers associated wth autism. Genes. A nice study from UCLA performed DNA

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Wrong, wrong, wrong
ecthompsonmd July 10, 2025

Someone is rarely wrong about everything. Just by sheer chance, you should be right about something. Donald Trump’s band of disruptors continued to be wrong about just about everything. They’ve taken the wrong side in the Ukrainian war. They are destroying the American economy with poorly conceived tariffs. Arkansas, led by his former press secretary Sarah Huckabee, asked for disaster relief after devastating severe weather. The Trump White House said no. The Trump White House decided that it would continue the racist agenda and force the most prestigious university on the planet, Harvard, to conform to their will. AutismAs most of

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Errington C. Thompson, MD

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