Ken Paxton is suing the makers of Tylenol.
The 62-year-old Texas Attorney General filed legal paperwork against manufacturer Kenvue, and former parent company Johnson & Johnson, on the claim that it causes autism, which has been largely refuted by medical professionals.
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“Big Pharma betrayed America by profiting off of pain and pushing pills regardless of the risks. These corporations lied for decades, knowingly endangering millions to line their pockets,” he said in a statement.
“Additionally, seeing that the day of reckoning was coming, Johnson & Johnson attempted to escape responsibility by illegally offloading their liability onto a different company. By holding Big Pharma accountable for poisoning our people, we will help Make America Healthy Again,” it goes on.
“For decades, Johnson & Johnson willfully ignored and attempted to silence the science that prenatal and early-childhood exposure to their acetaminophen products can cause Autism and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (‘ADHD’) in children. Despite being well aware of this fact, Tylenol was marketed as a completely safe pain medication for pregnant women, violating Texas’s consumer protection laws. The considerable body of evidence demonstrating these dangers was recently highlighted by the Trump Administration,” the statement continued.
President Donald Trump made the initial claims in September that when taken by pregnant women, Tylenol causes “horrible, horrible” autism.
Find out what science says about the claims of Tylenol causing autism.
The Associated Press says that the administration is promoting “unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence.”
Tylenol maker Kenvue released a statement at the time.
“Acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women as needed throughout their entire pregnancy,” the company said. “Without it, women face dangerous choices: suffer through conditions like fever that are potentially harmful to both mom and baby or use riskier alternatives.”
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