Texas lawsuit against companies behind Tylenol asserts unproven claims of autism risk

[Jilly_in_VA]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday accused the companies behind Tylenol of deceptively marketing the pain reliever to pregnant mothers in a lawsuit that asserted unproven claims that early exposure to acetaminophen increased risk of autism and other disorders.

Paxton, an ally of President Donald Trump and a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, announced the suit against Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue weeks after Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted an unproven link between the pain reliever and autism while announcing a wide-ranging effort to study the causes of the complex brain disorder.

The suit alleges that the companies violated Texas consumer protection laws by hiding the danger that acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, posed to fetuses and young children and “deceptively marketed Tylenol as the only safe painkiller for pregnant women.”

It also alleges that Johnson & Johnson fraudulently transferred liabilities arising from Tylenol to Kenvue to shield assets against lawsuits.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-tylenol-autism-texas-rfk-trump-3b39d3ac55b3b766b44c8fb03bad8b5e

Paxton is going down RFK Jr's rabbit hole. Can we just secede from Texas now and save ourselves the trouble? I think they are a lost cause. Pull everything and all subsidies from them and watch them flounder

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Proving causality is difficult in medical cases

They would have to disprove all other possible causes of autism in children. Pregnancy diet (including alcohol), other OTC medications, water, cosmetics, sources of inflammation, genetics, cofactors like dust, allergens, synthetic fibers. Not going to happen in my view.

[SARose]

2. Paxton doesn't care if this lawsuit ever goes forward

Think of a little boy on the playground yelling “look at me, Daddy look at me!”

The little weasel will do anything to attract Trump’s attention and, hopefully, Trump’s endorsement.

Pfffttt

How much is THIS BS costing me? When will Texans start asking this basic question? Prolly never! 😡

[-misanthroptimist]

3. Attempted shake down

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Exactly The Problem

They're accused of knowing stuff, for years, that just now has only a preliminary correlation but unproven causation.
They're being accused of hiding information they couldn't possibly know.
If they had no such information, there was nothing to find.