- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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.
You must log in or register to comment.
This timeline is so fucked that J & J somehow managed to be the good guy for once…
Wait the state is suing the company? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? The company suing the CDC and RFK Jr. personally due to the clearly slanderous statements?
Johnson and Johnson is a huge, multinational pharma company with more money than God. They aren’t going to be intimidated or extorted by this dumbass governor.
This case will get tossed in the discovery phase when the judge asks for scientific evidence and all the governor can provide are these whoo-whoo dipsh*t theories.
Not if the judge has been appointed by R.
I read this as “Tylenol sues Texas for libal”
Took me a few re-reads to understand the idiots spreading the libel are the ones suing. They’re gonna get counter-sued real fast.
Unfortunate that the tax payers will shoulder the burden.
Edit: this is a strange way for a company to get a government subsidiary:
- lobby stupid politicians to sue you for stupid reasons
- countersue.
- …
- Profit.
Hillbilly Tyrannical Fascist Government
VS
Monopolistic Corrupt Big Pharma Corporation
Who would win?
Stay tuned!
Pharma. Regardless of who’s involved, being able to sue somebody based on made up bullshit is not a good precedent
Yes, but when was the last time these guys cared about “precedent”? I agree in thinking Pharma wins, but only because money. One CEO visit to the Whitehouse and some brown nosing and Trump will start saying how they’re “good people”.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Generally the courts side with industry and money, but this time they’re being asked to choose between that and MAGA, the latter of which has been dominating in courts lately. I am not sure on this one. Kenvue isn’t that big, it’s not part of a behemoth like J&J anymore, I’m not sure that one company has the gravitas to avoid being run over.
Well, some lawyers are about to make a shit load of money as this drags out for a decade.
There’s no controversy in the health community!!! There’s no link between acetaminophen and autism, period!
Can’t help but notice you used exclamation marks instead of periods. Sincerely, the pedantic community.
Texas failing once again at using facts and science. They love to shoot themselves in the foot and blame others for making the gun that shot them.
Is there any science proving this? Could I sue “Buckley’s Cough Syrup” because of my gut feeling that they caused my toenail fungus?
Short answer no. Also correlation is not causation Let’s say child autism is correlated with infection at a certain age then it could be the infection and not the thing you took for the infection.
They are dumb fucks who cannot read studies. Remember COVID?
No, because in a court of law, your feelings aren’t the thing that matters. :)
that doesn’t jive with Donna Strumpet being the president of the US
a buddy of mine got a flu shot and then while walking out of the pharmacy he was hit by a car. Coincidence? No way.
Grifters have to make up the losses from Trump somehow.
God I hope texas eats a big old pharma dick on this one. I feel like they’re just anti women at this point.
yeah, “feel like.”
Tylenol is basically paracetamol, right? It’s a generic drug. Why are they suing a specific brand?
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.
Because you sue who has the most money.
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.
they did the research and safety testing on it
You’re missing the largest air quotes of the year here.
you doubt they did sefety testing? did they miss the authism connection?
I doubt any govt. member anywhere did any actual research about tylenol or autism, because if they did there would not have been any large scale announcement about false reports, and no lawsuit.
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.
No, we have generic Tylenol here, it’s just called acetaminophen.
Most people refer to OTC drugs by their most popular brand name over here, in general. People call Ibuprofen “Advil,” for example.
There absolutely is generic paracetamol, but we often colloquially use the word “tylenol” the same way y’all use “hoover.” It’s technically a brand, but we aren’t always referring to the brand - it’s just another noun sometimes.
In the case of RFK, I can’t explain if it was intentional to name the brand or if it’s simply one more thing he hasn’t applied that much critical thought to before speaking about.
RFK named the brand because Trump can’t pronounce Acetaminophen.
Which is incredible since they had cyanide contaminated capsules come from their manufacturing facility that killed seven people, and this drug is a major cause of liver failure. Most countries avoid it. and yet, no difference in autism rates.
The cyanide thing was a single person covering the murder of their spouse by contaminating a bunch of Tylenol at the same drug store. And that happened decades ago. It’s why there are so many “tamper evident” seals now.
Unless this actually happened recently and I just never heard about it.
It’s acetaminophen That’s the name of the drug it contains
AKA: paracetamol
AFAIK paracetamol and Tylenol are both brand names for acetaminophen.
Though if this is incorrect that’s cool.
Yes it is, paracetamol and acetominophen are alternative names for the molecule N-acetyl-para-aminophenol.
Tylenol, Panadol, Doliprane etc. are brand names.TIL.
Love to see it
Guess what they call acetominophen in the UK?
I’m not a lawyer but shouldn’t J&J be suing the Federal Government for making utterly unsubstantiated claims in an official announcement?
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.
We could put on a really big tinfoil hat and say that this is all a plan to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to J&J by way of crafting an airtight lawsuit for them to win and get awarded an absolutely massive payout.
Few years ago I would have agreed. Now, it is guaranteed this is some sort of grift. No conspiracy theory need apply.
this is all a plan to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to J&J by way of crafting an airtight lawsuit for them to win and get awarded an absolutely massive payout.
Not too big of a hat. When J&J had cyanide laced Tylenol capsules come out of a production facility in Illinois in the 80s, not only did they lie to media about cyanide not being in the plant, the FBI repeated the lie and then Ronald Reagan gave a medal to the CEO to help convince Americans it was safe to take this drug, which is well known to cause liver damage.
Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders, is on Netflix.
At the time, FBI and Government told everyone the tainted drugs were from a lone nut who put cyanide in the bottles. After those deaths, all drugs have safety seals to this day.
But a second poisoning came from caplets sealed at the factory and prescribed in a hospital. Only then was it revealed that cyanide was present in the plant, used to calibrate QC instruments. What is incredible is that within a few years, Tylenol sales were stronger than ever in the US. The rest of world curbed use of this drug because of liver toxicity.
I really am baffled that they have not sued.
I believe it’s called slander?
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 would say “We just made this up in order to sue you because we can’t sue you for not following us”.
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.
Where do Americans learn to equate suing someone with winning a lawsuit? USA has the most lax rules on civil lawsuits, anyone can sue anyone.
Respond to the wrong comment?
As are many judges.
