This lawsuit comes a month after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.

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.

  • sircac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I got a feeling of recognising a potential Eco’s ur-fascism element here, since probably the people that fuel these conspiracy theories have a different idea of what autism really is given their obsesion with this particular issue: someone that behaves not like us or incapable of blend in as we consider the standard society… also probably those pharmaceutical companies do not fund those politicians

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      We’re well beyond Eco’s idea of Ur-fascism (AKA nascent fascism). Shit ain’t nascent anymore.

      • sircac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        I agree, I mostly realised of the link/source of the obsession with these conspiracy synergies