Posted by randycupertino 9/5/2025
It’s like using bleach to whiten clothes. The bottle says “do not drink”. I don’t drink it, I’m fine. If I misuse it, I’m toast, like with any other myriad household products that can kill you if you use them not as directed.
Which product's instructions did you fail to follow?
I actually prefer cough syrups that don’t have acetaminophen precisely for that reason.
Sorry but being unable to follow instructions is a you problem not a me problem. My point stands: fail to follow instructions for potentially lethal everyday chemicals and you will end up dead. It’s not exclusive to Tylenol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
Tylenol only helps for minor aches and pains that frankly, pregnant mothers should just deal with for the good of their unborn child. The risk is not worth it.
RFK Jr. isn't right on everything, but he's not wrong on everything either and it's refreshing seeing someone head HHS that isn't in big pharma's pocket for a change.
Much better that he be in Big Wellness’s pocket which is an order of magnitude bigger, unregulated, and doesn’t need to provide evidence for their claims.
Please link to some credible sources showing that he's being paid off by someone.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/us-news/rfk-jr-in-cash-grab-to...
has this ever stopped anybody?
Untreated symptoms are also bad for the baby, and other OTC painkillers are worse than acetaminophen. You have to become informed and choose the least bad option for your situation (trimester, medical history, etc) rather than let a demagogue point your outrage at a random imperfect solution.
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Who's to say that the mother experiencing a ton of pain doesnt also affect the fetus?
where's your proof that its safe to leave a prefnant woman in pain?
Because there's no clear evidence to the contrary. Research and published papers would be more convincing here than an accusation.
> pregnant mothers should just deal with for the good of their unborn child
There's a number of things they should be restricted from for the good of the child of course, as men request. Blessed be the fruit. /s
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/03/30/acetaminoph...
As long as autism, there can be no causative link. Millions have autism, billions take paracetamol. Autism has, like its cousin schizophrenia, a strong genetic-familial basis. Hardly any environmental factor increases the risk so much to be worrisome.
Like cutting funding for autism research [1] and kids with autism on Medicaid [2]?
[1] https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/02/nih-autism-resear...
[2] https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/05/nebraska-lawmakers-h...
We all know he cannot prove anything, even if Tylenol loses, ensure they cost RFK jr lots of $ in defending himself.
Or is it, perhaps, possible that, if there is indeed a real increase in the rate of autism, it's because of something that has nothing to do with our modern pharmaceuticals?
Could it perhaps be related to the increases in various kinds of air pollution? Water pollution? Pesticides or herbicides in our foods? Or even the dramatic increase in EM signals being broadcast everywhere?
Until there are reputable studies that can actually show something resembling a causal link, getting angry at the medical community, pharmaceutical manufacturers, or vaccine makes for saying they are not responsible is pointless and counterproductive. So far as everyone knows, it really wasn't them.
And while there may be some small subset of people "accusing suffering parents of being crazy", by and large that's also not something that's happening.
There was a marked increase in left-handedness once the 'stigma' of it was removed.
The West is on a decreasing trend of all those kind of pollution since the 70s.
“Or even the dramatic increase in EM signals being broadcast everywhere?”.
It’s funny people are entertaining the hypothesis that EM radiation causes autism in the same conversation where they are trying to assure you that a drug that’s increasingly taken by pregnant women and that is proven to pass the placenta, is 100% harmless and can’t have anything to do with increased levels of autism.
Wrong approach. You prove that something is safe first (and there are ways to do it, one has to creative though) and then have people use it. One does not introduce something in the population and then trying to prove a causal link through stats. There are too many variable and it becomes easy to pass the buck by massaging numbers.
Acetaminophen is better studied than like 99% of foods and supplements.
Surely you understand that that makes no sense at all? All of these medicines have already been tested and shown to be safe, based on the science and understanding of the time. That's why they're on the market in the first place.
For better or for worse, the burden of proof is now on those who want to show that they are dangerous.
We are primarily talking about Tylenol. Paracetamol. Acetaminophen.
Perhaps you need to be reminded of the whole sentence you quoted from my post, rather than just the first subclause?
> Until there are reputable studies that can actually show something resembling a causal link, getting angry at the medical community, pharmaceutical manufacturers, or vaccine makes for saying they are not responsible is pointless and counterproductive.
The post I was replying to originally was specifically saying that the medical community needed to be accepting blame for causing autism.
This is bullshit. We do not know what causes autism. We certainly do not have any compelling evidence that anything the medical community is doing is causing autism.
My mistake, I did not quote your original comment correctly.:
I meant to quote:
>Could it perhaps be related to the increases in various kinds of air pollution? Water pollution? Pesticides or herbicides in our foods? Or even the dramatic increase in EM signals being broadcast everywhere?
>This is bullshit. We do not know what causes autism. We certainly do not have any compelling evidence that anything the medical community is doing is causing autism.
I would not put it past them. Harmful until proven otherwise is the approach I would take with most drugs/vaccines in the market out there, today. There is no third party testing for any drug/vaccine today - so pharma is free to manipulate the stats, and they have done it in the past.
And modern agriculture practices result in lower amounts of less toxic substances in the food supply.
What? Who is supposedly calling parents of autistic children "crazy"?
True. Infact I'd go so far as to say the medical community causes many of the health problem.
Speaking about empathy most people don't have it, not just the medical community. Even the victims will be victimizers at some point, it's very twisted situation.
( Btw, you have a very obvious pseudonym...)