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Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims (www.texastribune.org)

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.

This lawsuit, the first of its kind from a state government, comes a month after President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. The announcement set off a wave of controversy in the health care community, and confusion among pregnant women unsure how they should manage fever and pain during pregnancy.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I mean, that’s not going to change anything. We’re in the misinformation era.

Even some Democrat parts of my family share weird shit they get from cable TV or Facebook or influencers or what have you. Frankly, a disturbing amount of Lemmy.world's front page is clickbait from literal tabloids, too discredited for Wikipedia to even cite, that mods do nothing about because information hygiene only matters when it’s against their ideology.

Meanwhile, my other internet communities have withered away or got swallowed into Discord black holes

Sorry for that mini rant, but as far as I’m concerned the world had shown me attention, not truth, is all that matters. It’s not getting better. And that’s just how things will be from now on.

Hence I don’t like ‘personal’ issues getting dragged into the US two party food fight because it blows out any nuance away, forever. Tylenol will forever be a autism meme no matter how much it’s disproved, especially in the face of small grains of truth.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Frankly, a disturbing amount of Lemmy.world’s front page is clickbait from literal tabloids, too discredited for Wikipedia to even cite

Leave that shitty instance then

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yeah...

I should. db0 or sh.itjust.works are better fits, but .world isn't awful or anything, and I havent' been particuarly motivated since everything's federated anyway.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well.. your "rant" is both correct, & could be the kind of thing that we all need to work together on.

Keep in mind, we dumbass apes figured out RF technology to communicate across the entire globe much faster than we evolved past "strange ape from other city = bad".

Things are going to improve, it must for our species to survive. But there are no guarantees we will without sine communal effort.