Viewpoint: Tort lawyer RFK, Jr. — Trump alliance trashing Tylenol opens the door to a flood of dubious lawsuits

A lawsuit Texas filed … against the makers of Tylenol foreshadows a wave of legal warfare enabled by the Trump administration — and authorities fear it could eventually drive vaccine manufacturers out of the U.S.

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• The lawsuit points to the Trump administration’s recent actions tying Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism and ADHD as validation of its claim, declaring that “the reckoning has arrived.”
  
  
• It specifically quotes Trump, Kennedy and Food and Drug Administration commissioner Marty Makary saying that a proposed safety label change addressing Tylenol use during pregnancy “was supported by ample scientific evidence.”

Kennedy has championed the unsubstantiated claim that certain vaccines also cause autism, and he and his allies have railed against the liability protections that manufacturers are provided by U.S. law.

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• Instead of suing companies directly, vaccine-injured people can receive compensation through a special government program designed decades ago, when litigation threatened to drive manufacturers from the U.S. market.
  
  
• Waiving or weakening the program’s liability protections — which would require congressional action — would make personal injury lawsuits an existential threat to the U.S. vaccine market.

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