Mr. Paxton filed the suit against Johnson & Johnson, which sold Tylenol for decades, and Kenvue, a spinoff company that has sold the drug since 2023.
The Texas lawsuit claims that the companies knowingly withheld evidence from consumers about Tylenol’s links to autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The suit also claims that Kenvue was created to shield Johnson & Johnson from liability over Tylenol.
This lawsuit is the first by a state that seizes on Mr. Trump’s allegations that the use of acetaminophen products like Tylenol during pregnancy could cause neurodevelopmental disorders. The issue has been a longstanding concern among some followers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, but the idea gained traction with Mr. Trump’s remarks.
The first individual officially diagnosed with autism was Donald Triplett in 1943. Dr. Kanner (The Dr. who diagnosed him) had noted Triplett’s symptoms, such as social withdrawal and an insistence on sameness, as early as 1938. While not diagnosed as autism, there are historical accounts of individuals with similar characteristics, such as the “Wild Boy of Aveyron” in the late 1700s and Hugh Blair of Borgue in the 18th century.
Tylenol was introduced in 1955.
The first case of lung cancer was (insert year), cigarettes weren’t introduced until (later year).
I’m not claiming Tylenol causes autism, but your logic isn’t disproving either.
Just a reminder that Europe had the concept of “Changelings” for 2,000 years, where babies that suddenly changed and became difficult or antisocial were thought to have been replaced by a fairy. These babies were then left in the woods to “return them to the fairies”
This practice has been documented for thousands of years.
Autistic people have existed for thousands of years, just now we don’t call them changelings and abandon them in the forest.
An elf. Such a changeling was called an oaf, a word that comes from the same root as elf.
Bobby Brainworm enters the chat…
“A causes B” doesn’t imply that B is only caused by A, so this is pointless to bring up
That being said, RFK is a colossal idiot and the Tylenol-autism thing is a pretty clear-cut case of correlation≠causation.
I’m honestly doubting that there’s even correlation here.
On the other hand, there does seem to be correlation between older mothers having autistic children. I suspect the mothers have children when they are older because they have undiagnosed autism (that they then pass to their children through genetics), rather than their age causing autism in their children.
Also, the rate of all kinds of genetic defects increases with maternal age once the mother gets near menopausal age. So there’s that.
While autism absolutely existed prior to the brand “Tylenol”, acetaminophen has been around since 1878 and used as a pain/fever reducer since 1893.
You would use facts to try and confuse us. BUT ME ARE SMART!