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.
Does anyone have an angle on the strategy here? Obviously Paxton, et al. know this is complete bullshit. Is it extortion of some sort? Get another above board bribe from a corpo?
I’m not buying it is purely optics. These fuckers don’t have to care about convincing anyone anymore so there’s gotta be a grift in there somewhere.
Additional conspiracy theory elements from this thread:
J&J spun off Tylenol last year. Did they know this was coming? Are they complicit in the grift or did Kennedy know about evidence that actually indicated a link between autism and acet… aceta… what is it… Tylenol?
Discovery is a part of the judicial process so will they discover there is no evidence that J&J knew anything? What then? Lie, of course, but to what end?
Release the Epstein files.
It’s a shakedown. They want an out-of-court settlement.
From what I can tell they’ve got a few eggs in this basket:
JF©K Jr. and trump and Dr. Oz and the gang are selling the “cure” for autism which is just a random supplement and trying to scare people into buying it.
If they can tell the public that essentially the safest and most common medication is evil and everyone believes it, they can essentially say anything they want and define medicine for their own profit in the future.
Lawsuits can be profitable even if they’re bullshit. If they hurt a company and invest in their competitors, they can make money even while paying for a frivolous lawsuit. Plus they might even win with how brainwashed everyone is these days.
Autism and ADHD are scapegoats for conservatives and they can get people to follow them just by targeting these so called evil neurodivergencies. Kinda like Hitler targeting Jews and others for all of Germany’s problems, they target immigrants and neurodivergents and transsexuals (oh my lol).
Distract from the Epstein files and illegal overhaul / takeover of the government for fascism as always
Acetaminophen is toxic at high doses. Its pharmaceutical ratio is kind of shit.
That’s fair, definitely not a true statement. Still pretty safe in low doses in almost every scenario but everything has it’s caveats and paracetamol can be nasty if taken in more frequent or higher doses. Same with most stuff though including some vitamins.
But yeah kinda surprising how close therapeutic dose is to lethal dose and how hard regular use can be on your liver. Kinda forget how some people pop this every day like clockwork
It’s the number one cause of liver failure. Americans pop them like candy.
Paxton’s in a heated primary with Cornyn over his Senate seat, so this could all just be about getting his name in the headlines on the eve of an ugly primary fight.
Also might be a classic Trumpian shakedown. Like, this can all go away if J&J throws Paxton a few million in campaign donations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein_client_list
We have so many people dead to rights, from the Birthday Book to the Flight Logs to the Virginia Guiffrey testimony. You can only say this so many times before people stop giving a shit. Like, what does anyone think Kash Patel and Pam Bondi are going to do about it? What does anyone think the fucking NY or CA AGs are going to do about it?
Nobody is coming to take Elon Musk or Peter Mandelson away, even assuming you have them dick deep in a live boy and a dead girl on high resolution video with Epstein giving the double-thumbs up center frame.