Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims

They don't. It's part flood the zone, part pandering to certain voters. Look what we do for you! A blue state wouldn't fight for your health like this!

Nothing will come of it but it's a positive distraction from the extraction of wealth that is currently happening.

People have tried in the past and each time it got thrown out because the judges ruled they were full of shit. As recently as 2023, even, from Reuters:

Cote, in a 148-page ruling, found that none of the five expert witnesses proposed by the plaintiffs had offered a sound scientific methodology to support their opinion that Tylenol's active ingredient, acetaminophen, could cause autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

"Instead, the unstructured approach adopted by the plaintiffs' experts permitted cherry-picking, allowed a results-driven analysis, and obscured the complexities, inconsistencies, and weaknesses in the underlying data," she wrote.

They're trying to sue J&J, too. One of the largest corporations in the world. Curious to see where it'll go. Just seems like all it'll do is piss off his donors.

By convincing a jury of normal Americans they're right.

Honestly they probably expect a settlement to avoid “political trouble.”

This is how recent federal lawsuits ended.

Exactly. Like Republicans in 2020 wouldn’t bring any election denial claims to court cause the had no actual evidence

Assuming the process functions normally and doesn't become political theatre.

You have a lot of faith in a jury system that has historically been terrible at evaluating scientific claims.

I can't wait for all these bullshit cases to get in front of judges. Some of them already have, and are getting tossed. The media should be covering it much heavier.

America is fanous for suing everyone and everything for a reason.

I think they’re waiting for the damages to really rack up. Then they can sue the taxpayer for billions and nobody can stop them.

But they prefer the right over the left because of taxes and regulations. I wonder when companies will flip, because they cannot handle the business impact of bullshit decisions like random tariffs or lawsuits over made up controversies any longer.

Man I'm waiting for discovery. Texas and the GOP are going to be even more of a laughing stock

Um, the government has been filing frivolous lawsuits against some of the largest companies in the country for the past year. Companies then settle out of court and pay a multi-million dollar bribe settlement to encourage their mergers to go through. No sign of companies fighting back. If anything, they're encouraging it by being massive pushovers.

Nah that admits they may have been at fault for something, much better to counter sue and make the people of Texas pay possibly billions of dollars in stupid lawsuits that they will have to look at their government and say what the fuck, we knew that was bogus

Pharma. Regardless of who's involved, being able to sue somebody based on made up bullshit is not a good precedent

Eh, massive correlation is still not causation. No matter how massive.

But, don't you have to be a complete idiot to put on a MAGA hat in the first place?

Its called acetaminophen in the states, and there are generics available at every store. Basically each store has a cheaper version of it available under their own branding.

Likely they are targeting the maker of Tylenol because they did the research and safety testing on it, and all the other stuff is based on that. I'm not a scientist though thats just a guess.

I think Tylenol must have a total monopoly on paracetamol sales in that country, as they never refer to it by its non-brand name. Going for the specific brand would be the same as suing every manufacturer.

Same exact drug, just branding.

It's because our batshit crazy administration decided to wage war against that particular brand, I suspect they refused to donate their million dollars to the pres' slush-fund.

It's acetaminophen That's the name of the drug it contains

No, because in a court of law, your feelings aren't the thing that matters. :)

Probably just banning Tylenol in pregnancy

Benadryl has been linked to dementia...

Oh man crunchy tarot card constellations witches are going to be so confused which side to join.

Just give them opiates or meth for everything, it makes them happy.

I feel ya, and feel for ya. Good luck and help it together, looking forward to cleaning up with you all after this Cheeto colored fuck dies.

It’s not even correlation, it’s just made up bullshit

Can’t help but notice you used exclamation marks instead of periods. Sincerely, the pedantic community.