Tylenol maker prepares for glut of lawsuits after Trump's baseless warnings
Source: The Independent
Tuesday 23 September 2025 19:22 EDT
Tylenol maker Kenvue is reportedly preparing for a glut of lawsuits after President Donald Trump made a baseless warning that the active ingredient in the drug, acetaminophen, could cause autism.
At a press conference Monday, Trump repeatedly urged pregnant women, Dont take Tylenol.
Along with Trumps warning, the Food and Drug Administration issued a notice to doctors of the potential link between Tylenol and autism, and is recommending pregnant women use the lowest dose for the shortest duration possible if deemed medically necessary.
Speaking from the White House, the president told pregnant women to fight like hell not to take Tylenol, but if they cant tough it out, to take the lowest dose possible.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/tylenol-autism-trump-kenvue-lawsuits-b2832385.html

Coldwater
(227 posts)
Bluetus
(1,582 posts)sop
(16,203 posts)yardwork
(68,147 posts)Absolutely horrifying.
sop
(16,203 posts)Bobby Jr.'s anti-vaccine HHS-supported jihad will make his personal injury tort lawyer associates fabulously wealthy. Kennedy's son, Conor Kennedy, is a trial attorney at Wisner Baum, Bobby's old personal injury law firm. Follow the money.
MLWR
(569 posts)Trump clearly said, it was just something he "felt."
sop
(16,203 posts)This is directly from the Whitehouse.gov page, don't report it as "spreading right wing disinformation"...
"FACT: Evidence suggests acetaminophen use in pregnant women, especially late in pregnancy, may cause long-term neurological effects in their children."
"Large-scale cohort studies including the Nurses Health Study II and the Boston Birth Cohort report associations between in utero exposure and later diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)."
"Scientists have proposed biological mechanisms linking prenatal acetaminophen exposure to altered brain development and adverse birth outcomes."
"Andrea Baccarelli, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: 'Colleagues and I recently conducted a rigorous review, funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), of the potential risks of acetaminophen use during pregnancy
We found evidence of an association between exposure to acetaminophen during pregnancy and increased incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders in children.' "
"Harvard University: Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase childrens autism and ADHD risk
Johns Hopkins University: Taking Tylenol during pregnancy associated with elevated risks for autism, ADHD."
"Mount Sinai: Mount Sinai Study Supports Evidence That Prenatal Acetaminophen Use May Be Linked to Increased Risk of Autism and ADHD."
"In 2021, an international consensus statement highlighted 'a call for precautionary action,' recommending that pregnant women 'minimize exposure' to acetaminophen 'by using the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time.' "
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/fact-evidence-suggests-link-between-acetaminophen-autism/
Bluetus
(1,582 posts)The acetaminophen market is about $10B annually, but about 90% of that is generics, which might be a dozen other suppliers. The patents expired 50-75 years ago. So the first thing a lawyer would have to do is prove that the customer actually took Tylenol and never took a generic.
I am sure there will be a lot of nuisance suits, and some out-of-court playoffs, but I can't see anybody winning anything in court.
sop
(16,203 posts)A December 2023 ruling found the plaintiffs' experts failed to provide credible evidence linking Tylenol use to autism or ADHD. The case is now being appealed in the Second Circuit. RFK Jr's recently released report will be "pivotal" in establishing that "credible evidence" exists establishing that link.
'Tylenol Autism Lawsuit'
"The court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on October 6 in a series the lawsuits claiming that taking Tylenol during pregnancy may increase the risk of autism in children...These cases are part of the broader Tylenol MDL that has consolidated hundreds of claims alleging that acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, can disrupt fetal development when used by expectant mothers...The appellate courts review is considered pivotal because it will address key scientific and evidentiary issues that will determine whether these claims move forward in federal court or are dismissed."
"The federal government has not yet begun drafting its long-promised autism report, but FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said it will be released within a month...The report is expected, as we talked about on Friday, to explore possible causes of autism...Kenvue stock dropped more than 10% on Friday after reports surfaced that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will soon release a report linking Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism."
https://www.lawsuit-information-center.com/tylenol-autism-lawsuit.html
Irish_Dem
(75,408 posts)Lovie777
(20,481 posts)Javaman
(64,547 posts)that alone might undo the orange assholes and worm brains bullshit.
Jacson6
(1,554 posts)Decades a go a breast implant maker was sued because experts said the gel in the breast implants caused disease. That company had to file for bankruptcy. Years later we know no such danger existed. But those jurors believed the experts.
BattleRow
(1,822 posts)The cost of doing big business.
bucolic_frolic
(52,503 posts)Trump and his fake-statistic lackeys will be quite the scientific experts in court.
lostincalifornia
(4,545 posts)All the data needs to be brought out publicly so they see what a fraud this entire administration is.
The data is there to refute all of this. What these SCUM have done is "cherry picked", and misrepresented data. This is the same garbage these thugs did and are doing with the COVID vaccines.
"A Harvard dean and preeminent epidemiologist whose work was cited by top health officials in the Trump administration as justification for severely curtailing Tylenol use by pregnant women due to a supposed link to autism provided expert testimony in a lawsuit against the drugs maker that a federal judge called unreliable.
Andrea Baccarelli, dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, submitted written testimony in 2023 that his review of the scientific literature led him to conclude that prenatal exposure to acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, can cause the offspring to develop neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD. A Harvard spokesperson said that Baccarelli was paid roughly $150,000 for his work on the case.
The federal court judge excoriated Baccarellis testimony, writing that Dr. Baccarelli downplays those studies that undercut his causation thesis and emphasizes those that align with his thesis.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York noted that neither Baccarelli nor four other experts paid to testify for the plaintiffs has published research that expresses the ultimate opinions they offer here. Indeed, the plaintiffs lead expert on causation, Dr. Baccarelli, as recently as 2022, co-authored a study on the prenatal effects of acetaminophen that cautioned against any change in clinical practice.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/researcher-behind-trump-tylenol-autism-expert-testimony-tossed/
Here is push back against rfk jr and the anti-vaxers on their outrageous claims about the COVID vaccine.
""What these people do, is that they search, they find one paper or two papers that make an outlandish claim based on bad data that hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of other papers refute, they dont mention everything that refutes it. They only mention, oh, look, I found a paper that says spike is around for nine months! Its just not true."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/drew-weissman-nobel-prize-mrna-covid-vaccines-rebuts-retsef-levi-claims/
OrwellwasRight
(5,267 posts)Starting with defamation.
tanyev
(47,898 posts)Ray Bruns
(5,621 posts)
ninjanurse
(114 posts)And that can be bad for a pregnant woman and a developing fetus. Uncontrolled pain isnt good either, and I toughed out a difficult childbirth with almost no pain med, so lecturing women on putting up with pain is ignorant.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,135 posts)He wouldn't last one hour with the kinds of pain that having a baby entails.
He'd be swallowing handfuls of Tylenol!
BattleRow
(1,822 posts)littlemissmartypants
(29,893 posts)To cause pain and suffering is exactly the point.
To love is to hurt for these twisted people.
It's a testament to exactly who they are as a result of their diseased brains.
1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior
bmichaelh
(965 posts)Many of RFK Jr friends have cases up for appeal involving Tylenol.
Is he trying to prop up those lawsuits.
https://www.rawstory.com/kennedy-tylenol-wsj-names-names/
slightlv
(6,619 posts)Effects on themselves and their fetus because they'll tough out high fevers and other illnesses. I think there should be class action lawsuits against Trump, Bobby, and Oz that cannot be paid from our tax dollars.
louis-t
(24,473 posts)that will soon replace Tylenol? Oh, and 'Dr' Schmoz is selling some 'miracle' concoction that supposedly cures autism. But pay no attention to the suffering and possible deaths of women, this is about money, after all.
IcyPeas
(24,296 posts)Go to about 1 minute 40 seconds in. (Sorry the clip is from Newsnation... it was the only short clip i could find)
GiqueCee
(2,854 posts)... and he absolutely loves fucking with people. If he told me the sky was blue, I'd check his sources thoroughly before I'd believe him.
And Kennedy the Lesser is no better, and certainly no more trustworthy. His entire family despises him, but for his current wife, Cheryl Hines, whose judgement and character must be suspect if she continues to associate with him. He is an asshole of the flaming variety.
IronLionZion
(49,971 posts)It would have been nice to have the resources of a larger well known company to fight this. Since Republicans are pro-business like this.
KS Toronado
(21,382 posts)a) revenge politics
b) a money making scheme
c) another Epstein distraction
sop
(16,203 posts)KS Toronado
(21,382 posts)d) all of the above
Rebl2
(17,017 posts)dr Oz said its okay to take acetaminophen for a fever, opposite of what trumpy boy said.
no_hypocrisy
(53,192 posts)Because Dear Leader and his Brainworm said so?
Solly Mack
(95,777 posts)Queso Delicioso
(116 posts)Notwithstanding the compromised & complicit SCOTUS will probably let Trump get away with it like they always do.
cab67
(3,489 posts)Oeditpus Rex
(42,772 posts)Sales of Tylenol will likely plummet because of his baseless rant.
spike jones
(1,965 posts)Then I thought like a Christian Nazi that in the Bible, one of gods punishment for Eve for eating from the tree of knowledge was that she (women) would forever suffer pain while giving birth. So, the use of Tylenol to ease the pain is against gods will.