Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.
This lawsuit, the first of its kind from a state government, comes a month after President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. The announcement set off a wave of controversy in the health care community, and confusion among pregnant women unsure how they should manage fever and pain during pregnancy.
I hope somebody documents every penny Texas wastes on this frivolous crap.
More distractions…
Holy fuck, facts don’t care about your feelings has turned into let’s litigate on my feelings
My feelings don’t care about your facts!
Can’t wait for this to backfire hilariously
Are fucking insane? How on earth do they expect to actually win this lawsuit?
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.
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.
As someone on the outside looking in, it is ABSOLUTELY INSANE that this still needs to be explained to people.
Well maybe something will come from it, it might inspire laws that make it harder to sue pharma.
Delusion.
By convincing a jury of normal Americans they’re right.
They could request a bench trial. No jury, just the judge.
Go with the ~98% chance of a conservative judge deciding ? Bold move.
It works for patents, surely it’ll work for lunatic bullshit
Why wouldn’t they? Reality can be anything in Trump’s America.
Honestly they probably expect a settlement to avoid “political trouble.”
This is how recent federal lawsuits ended.
Are the betting markets on how big Tylenol’s donation to trumps library will be?
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.
Worst of all is that this probably will end in a settlement where the US government gets to claim they were right in exchange for just a “small” donation to the US government
That’s what colleges and networks were doing for a while, but since Kimmel stood up to them and won BIG, potential victims have been pushing back. Colleges are refusing money with strings, for one thing.
If J&J is smart (and it’s not clear that they are, although they are well-established to be evil), they’ll refuse to settle.
I’m all for it. Let’s have discovery, let’s shine a light on this stupidity.
Exactly. Like Republicans in 2020 wouldn’t bring any election denial claims to court cause the had no actual evidence
You have a lot of faith in a jury system that has historically been terrible at evaluating scientific claims.
Discovery happens well before the jury is seated.
Yes, but the light isn’t really shined for the public until the verdict.
These folks never change their views after a court case disproves something. They just assume some sort of deep state is in bed with “big pharma” - even if acetaminophen is a low cost and not a big money maker.
I’m all for it. Let’s have discovery, let’s shine a light on this stupidity.
We will never get the justice we want through procedure, legal argument and old-guard political players.
We only get the world we want through unified efforts to restructure politics from the ground up. Fuck Texas, let them rot and wallow in dark-ages mythology. While they’re spinning their wheels trying to make shit like phrenology and miasma theory work with modern systems, we can make our own communities shining beacons of reason if we work hard enough together.
Assuming the process functions normally and doesn’t become political theatre.
Excellent joke, good sir!
Your tax dollars at work, Americans
Luckily it’s just Texan taxes in this case
It is hard to believe this is not an onion article. “We just made this up and now we are suing you for not warning people about the shit we just made up”.
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.
The media is fully captured by hard right idealogues.
If there is a civil war, I suspect that Tylenol would be on the side of the Allies & Union. Texans and MAGA will have to use homeopathic remedies to (not) ease their pain.
Oh man crunchy tarot card constellations witches are going to be so confused which side to join.
what strain u smokin
OK! Good! FINALLY! Now that they’re pulling this shit, big companies have reason to fight back. I was wondering when Proctor and Gamble and Johnson and Johnson would start campaigning to get these psychos out of office, and this should do it.
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
bribesettlement to encourage their mergers to go through. No sign of companies fighting back. If anything, they’re encouraging it by being massive pushovers.Yeah, but this is Texas, not Trump. Paxton doesn’t have anywhere near the same weight to throw around as Trump.
He is a fat fuck, you got that right
Really hope youre right, but I’m not counting those chickens yet
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
Can a state be the defendant in an anti-slapp case?
I’m not sure, I’m sure every state is different too. May have to get around the sovereign immunity as well. It isn’t impossible, as their are usually clauses that bypass it but Texas may have very few
Don’t count on companies fighting back. Something tells me that, the moment a company actually fights the govt, they’ll magically remember that said companies are actually violating several state and federal regulations and laws
Stop delivering medication to Texas
Fuck you dude, do not subject all to suffer for these sins. I’m already on the verge of black market meds and fuck you for tying us all together in the same noose.
That’s the message I got from this. They’ve taken vaccines, now they go for lighter stuff. What’s next? Cancer treatments?
Probably. The red states need a mass exodus, but leaving family/friends/work is difficult and sometimes near impossible, so I have no answers.
this is funny as fuck. what’s next, allergy medicine causing ADHD?
Benadryl has been linked to dementia…
that sucks.
Probably just banning Tylenol in pregnancy
lol bozo US
oh look a rabbit!
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Shhhh, don’t tell them. It will ruin our plan of infecting all kids with neurodivergence to increase Linux marketshare…
Terrible decision from Texas.
Corelation is not causation. What a stupid country I was born to
It’s not even correlation, it’s just made up bullshit
We should start posting that 3.2% of children watching Trump on TV have developed autism, therefor Trump is using subliminal messaging and is dangerous to their kids. They may not care that a pedophile is in office, but mention subliminal messaging and they’ll go crazy.
Iirc, this idea comes from a study that found people who used Tylenol while pregnant actually did have a slightly heightened chance of birthing an autistic child. However, that study did not in any way address why this was the case, so incurious fools take it at face value and never examine things any further than that.
This means that there is some very small degree of corelation, even if that corelation has failed to hold water when put to later tests. One of the many, many things that these idiots refuse to look in the eye is that this data point is a singular, contextless point that has way more evidence against than there is for.
I hear where you’re coming from, but this one wasn’t ripped out of thin air, making it that much more annoying to talk these people out of. So it’s not just made up bullshit, but that is still about 99.99% of it.
Was this the same study that showed a potential link between certain viral infections and autism?
I haven’t heard that one before. No idea tbqh
Yeah, it’s much more probable that something that you take tylenol for is (one of) the culprit(s) here, not tylenol itself. Because the average US resident does not have the ability to think such complex thoughts, RFK is a nutjob and Paxton is corrupt as fuck, you get result like this. It’s embarrassing to watch.
I think it’s more that the average American has been taught to not be able to teach themselves, rather than that they completely lack the ability. Other than that, this all checks out as far as my own recollection can reckon.
oh i meant that the american reading ability, which is closely tied to the education system, is averaging sixth grade; that also means they lack the education to analyze texts and information above what is written; things like intent of an author, what the context is and what someone wants to achieve with the published information are completely lost when you lack the ability to read above a certain level. this is completely homemade, mainly by republicans who like their voters easily controlled.
Ahh. Completely agreed when you spin it like that. In fact, I’ve got a direly unwanted mountain of lived experience dealing with the exact sorts you’re conjuring, as I grew up in one of the podunkiest towns you can imagine. Not to say I’m particularly learned or clever (I’d like to think myself more honest than that lol), but the agony that is having to work under/take orders from these goons is something I’d only ever wish on the worst of us. Change can not come soon enough on so, so many gd levels :|
