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malsperanza's avatar

Oh there are so many responses to this - starting with whether data was even captured or reported on babies who later developed lung problems.

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firescape1066's avatar

Hence the reason for studies and peer review. There is only one person I truly want to see strung up, and it's not TFG: it's Andrew Wakefield. His accursed legacy still haunts us in a multitude of ways.

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Momo's avatar

But how do we know that Wonkette isn't just a mouthpiece of Big Acitinometaphine? Asatenametophine... Acetanaminopnan... whatever.

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

From the wonderful nerd strip xkcd.https://xkcd.com/552/

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

Inject my wife with iodine contrast agents and you send her into anaphylaxis.

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

Hey, just have Dr. Fauci announce that you should not tie a plastic bag around your head, and that there will be a mandate against it.

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яовэят ёскэят 😘's avatar

Thanks, I couldn't find the source, should have known it was xkcd

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pmsrw3's avatar

True, but the margin of error is smaller than one would expect for so widely used a nonprescription med.

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potrzebie's avatar

Millions are being paid out to women who used J&J baby powder, claiming that they got ovarian cancer from applying baby powder to their "nether regions".

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Applemask's avatar

DIfferent pharmacopoeiae.

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Pilgrim's avatar

Spoken like a Man who never makes mistakes. Life without a safety net can be thrilling!!

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Darth Trad's avatar

At any given moment in the USA there are tens of thousands of illegal meth labs operating. Each pound of 'product' creates 7 pounds of chemical waste which enters the environment. It should be argued that the millions of pounds of waste and trace levels of meth in the USA is responsible for any number of issues in populations that don't consume the stuff. But, they don't operate as large corporations that can be identified and sued.

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Johnny Pez's avatar

Mind you, Tylenol does actually suck, just for different reasons:

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Queen Méabh's avatar

This is true. Also, legal birth control and cancer screenings are responsible for keeping a lot of women alive past 30.

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