It is hard to believe this is not an onion article. "We just made this up and now we are suing you for not warning people about the shit we just made up".
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And that’s basically it!
I can't wait for all these bullshit cases to get in front of judges. Some of them already have, and are getting tossed. The media should be covering it much heavier.
I’m not a lawyer but shouldn’t J&J be suing the Federal Government for making utterly unsubstantiated claims in an official announcement?
I think they’re waiting for the damages to really rack up. Then they can sue the taxpayer for billions and nobody can stop them.
We could put on a really big tinfoil hat and say that this is all a plan to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to J&J by way of crafting an airtight lawsuit for them to win and get awarded an absolutely massive payout.
I believe it's called slander?
I really am baffled that they have not sued.
This timeline is so fucked that J & J somehow managed to be the good guy for once..
Less the good guy, more a target of a bad guy.
Hillbilly Tyrannical Fascist Government
VS
Monopolistic Corrupt Big Pharma Corporation
Who would win?
Stay tuned!
Pharma. Regardless of who's involved, being able to sue somebody based on made up bullshit is not a good precedent
Yes, but when was the last time these guys cared about "precedent"? I agree in thinking Pharma wins, but only because money. One CEO visit to the Whitehouse and some brown nosing and Trump will start saying how they're "good people".
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
This is what happens when you put conspiracy theorists into office: You get them suing or attacking organisations for things that aren't real.
Many have tried, and many have failed to sue them due to a lack of evidence.
There has been no new evidence btw.
it isn't lawsuit in a traditional way.
there's no law in this country anymore. they are asking for a bribe
Is there any science proving this? Could I sue "Buckley's Cough Syrup" because of my gut feeling that they caused my toenail fungus?
Short answer no. Also correlation is not causation Let's say child autism is correlated with infection at a certain age then it could be the infection and not the thing you took for the infection.
They are dumb fucks who cannot read studies. Remember COVID?
a buddy of mine got a flu shot and then while walking out of the pharmacy he was hit by a car. Coincidence? No way.
It’s all fun and games until you realize discovery is a part of a lawsuit
Did their lawyers even pass the bar?
I feel like there's an opportunity for a multi-layered Epstein-Barr joke in this whole situation, but I can't quite put it together.
Wait the state is suing the company? Shouldn't it be the other way around? The company suing the CDC and RFK Jr. personally due to the clearly slanderous statements?
I read this as "Tylenol sues Texas for libal"
Took me a few re-reads to understand the idiots spreading the libel are the ones suing. They're gonna get counter-sued real fast.
Unfortunate that the tax payers will shoulder the burden.
Edit: this is a strange way for a company to get a government subsidiary:
- lobby stupid politicians to sue you for stupid reasons
- countersue.
- ...
- Profit.
God I hope texas eats a big old pharma dick on this one. I feel like they're just anti women at this point.
I hear that MAGA hats have chemicals that leach into your brain and make you a complete idiot.
Eh, massive correlation is still not causation. No matter how massive.
Well, some lawyers are about to make a shit load of money as this drags out for a decade.
Texas failing once again at using facts and science. They love to shoot themselves in the foot and blame others for making the gun that shot them.
If there is a civil war, I suspect that Tylenol would be on the side of the Allies & Union. Texans and MAGA will have to use homeopathic remedies to (not) ease their pain.
Oh man crunchy tarot card constellations witches are going to be so confused which side to join.
Worst of all is that this probably will end in a settlement where the US government gets to claim they were right in exchange for just a "small" donation to the US government
That's what colleges and networks were doing for a while, but since Kimmel stood up to them and won BIG, potential victims have been pushing back. Colleges are refusing money with strings, for one thing.
If J&J is smart (and it's not clear that they are, although they are well-established to be evil), they'll refuse to settle.
This is upsetting to me.
I’m barely grasping my spot on the AuADHD space, and now it’s been politicized into a single dimensional disease Republicans are using to virtue signal, like the whole vaccine “debate.”
And I’m in freaking Texas. It’s not as Republican as y’all think, especially in the big metros, but somehow we got Paxton in.
And apparently you guys forgot about previous frivolous lawsuits. Huge media conglomerates, and other institutions, settled with the Trump DoJ because they saw them for what they are: a shake down. “Pay us, or you will find political trouble.”
That’s what’s happening.
The merits do not matter. There is no “fight” here.
J&J is going to settle with Texas and maybe others so MAGA doesn’t persecute them outside the lawsuit.
this is funny as fuck. what's next, allergy medicine causing ADHD?
Shhhh, don't tell them. It will ruin our plan of infecting all kids with neurodivergence to increase Linux marketshare...
Hopefully Tylenol sues texas back for being malicious idiots.
It turns out someone really was after his lucky charms!

Texas based leprechaun association sues all Texan kids for lucky charm thefts going back to the 70's!
Grifters have to make up the losses from Trump somehow.
As usual our AG is being an ass
There's no controversy in the health community!!! There's no link between acetaminophen and autism, period!
