SCOOP: Tylenol Maker Privately Admitted Evidence Was Getting ‘Heavy’ For Autism Risk In 20181/3(sorry about all the red text but this has made me more angry, then many things we research)

The pharmaceutical company behind Tylenol privately acknowledged thelikelihood of an association between its drug in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism in children seven years ago, company documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.

“The weight of the evidence is starting to feel heavy to me,” said Rachel Weinstein, U.S. director of epidemiology for Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson, in 2018. Johnson & Johnson marketed Tylenol at the timebut in 2023 spun off its consumer products division into a separate company called Kenvue.

Legacy media headlines and vocal public health experts have dismissed the conclusion of President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services(HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that Tylenol taken in pregnancy and early infancy has driven rises in autism.But one stakeholder has for years viewed the evidence as credible enough to act upon, at least privately: The makers of Tylenol.

The DCNF obtained the company documents from the law firm Keller Postman LLC, which brought a class action lawsuit against Kenvue in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York.

To be sure, much of the highly-cited researchon autism spectrum disorder emphasizes genetic rather than environmental drivers.The scientific community continues to debate its causes, with many scientists agreeing that multiple factors may be at play.

The company’s FAQ webpage says that “acetaminophen is an active ingredient in all TYLENOL® products andin more than 600 other over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medicines.”

A decade before Weinstein’s email, in 2008, Johnson & Johnson began receiving queriesfrom consumers and physicians about a possible link, emails show.

“Not much choice but to consider this a safety signal that needs to be evaluated,” J&J Office of Consumer Medical Safety Lead Andre Mann wrote in 2008 after receiving a letter from a physician with concerns.

Leslie Shur, the head of the division of Johnson & Johnson that monitors the side effects of drugs already on the market, received an alert in 2012 about concerns about acetaminophen and autism from a concerned father, with one employee writing “in case this goes to press.”

Concerns about a link between Tylenol andneurological disorders may have reached the C-suite by 2014, according to another email, which references then-Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorski.

The makers of Tylenol have closely tracked a drumbeat of scientific publications finding an association between taking the blockbuster drug in pregnancy and infancy and autism risk, other company documents show.

A 2018 internal presentation the company labeled “privileged and confidential” acknowledgesthat observational studies showa “somewhat consistent” association between prenatal exposure to Tylenoland neurodevelopmental disorders. Another presentation slide acknowledges that larger meta-analyses — reviews summarizing multiple scientific studies — found an association, but notes weaknesses of these studies like confounding variables and subjectivity in measuring autistic traits.

“Johnson & Johnson divested its consumer health business years ago, and all rights and liabilities associated with the sale of its over-the-counter products, including Tylenol (acetaminophen), are owned by Kenvue,” a Johnson & Johnson spokesman said in a statement.

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/09/26/scoop-tylenol-maker-privately-admitted-evidence-was-getting-heavy-for-autism-risk-in-2018/

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Shur did not respond to a request for comment. Mann and Gorski could not be reached for comment.

“Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of the people who use our products,” Kenvue spokesperson Melissa Witt told the DCNF. “We have continuously evaluated the scienceand continue to believe there is no causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism.”

“Acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women as needed throughout their entire pregnancy,” Witt continued. “Our products are safe and effective when used as directed on the product label. We recommend pregnant women do not take any over-the-counter medication, including acetaminophen, without talking to their doctor first.”

Hearings before the Court of Appealsfor the Second Circuit in the class action suit against Kenvue will begin Oct. 9. Judge Denise Cotegranted summary judgement for Kenvue in September 2023, after tossing the scientific testimony from expertsfor Keller Postman, citing the “great public health implications” of pregnant women not having the drug.

Ashley Keller, lead attorney for the families with autistic children, argues the judge overstepped and that women should be alerted to the risk.

“We saw this nonsense with COVID on all sorts of things that turned out to be untrue.They said these lies were noble lies. Well, we shouldn’t sugar coat things for pregnant moms,” he said to the DCNF.

The judge also responded to the internal records showing that the company knewabout studies showing an autism risk by saying that “candid internal discussion[…] is positive corporate behavior.”

Meanwhile,Kenvue states on the website for Tylenol that “credible, independent scientific data continues to showno proven link between taking acetaminophen and autism.”

“If you are treating your little onewith acetaminophen, please know thatthere is no credible sciencethat shows taking acetaminophen causes autism,” the site also reads.

Internal emails sharply contrast with that public statement.

Emails show employees of Johnson & Johnson discussing a 2018 literature reviewconcluding that pregnant women should be cautioned against indiscriminate use of Tylenol as wellas a 2016 study that concluded that prenatal exposureto acetaminophenwas associated with autism “with hyperkinetic features,” or abnormal involuntary movement, though not with autism without those symptoms.

Weinstein, the companyepidemiologist, wrote to one of the authors lauding the “substantial strengths of the study design,” the “strength and robustness of the association,” and thestudy’s ability “to control for possible confounding by indication,” that “lend support to the findings.”Weinstein joined Kenvue from Johnson & Johnsonbut has since retired, her LinkedIn shows. She could not be reached for comment.

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/09/26/scoop-tylenol-maker-privately-admitted-evidence-was-getting-heavy-for-autism-risk-in-2018/

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In 2018,Weinstein and other top scientists within the company considered funding follow-on studies about the drug’s autism riskbut eventuallyopted against “sticking their necks out.”

Weinstein mentioned thatthey could end up confirming the findings. The company noted in a 2018 presentation that recommending against Tylenol inpregnancy would leave women with few options.

Tylenol has few competitors among pregnant women, with ibuprofen and aspirin discouraged in late pregnancy due to potential complications.

The company alsoconducted research it described as “social listening” by tracking Google searches and social media postsseeking evidence about Tylenol and autism from January 2020 through October 2023. The company initiated the=social media trends research after the 2021 publicationof a call to action on Tylenol in Nature Reviews Endocrinology by13 U.S. and European experts “in light of the serious consequences of inaction.”

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That same year,the company ran a Mother’s Day ad featuring pregnant womenand women with small infants and theTylenol brand. Nevertheless, the company found “a substantial increase in negative sentiment on this topic in the news and social media,” the social listening report states.

Acknowledging a plausible risk to babies could have tarnished the Tylenol brand, employees admittedinternally. In a 2023 internal review dubbed Project Cocoon, company executives acknowledged that the question “touches every aspect of the brand.”

The company had in 2015 launched Tylenol as a “megabrand,” marketing it as vital for all stages of life, including in pregnancy and early infancy, internal marketing plans show.

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Just two years before, a 2013 ProPublica investigation had uncovered thecompany had also been slow to update its label with information about the riskof overdose. Tylenol caused 1,500 overdose deaths from 2001 through 2010,more than every other over-the-counter painkiller combined, according to the report. That same year, Tylenol added a message to the bottle caps of its extra strength formulation: “CONTAINS ACETAMINOPHEN” and “ALWAYS READ THE LABEL.”

The renewedpush to tie the Tylenol brand to themes of family and safety followed.

“Come back,” one marketing slide reads, showing a picture of a mother and baby.

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/09/26/scoop-tylenol-maker-privately-admitted-evidence-was-getting-heavy-for-autism-risk-in-2018/

Charlie Kirk’s Widow Reveals Plans For The Future Of TPUSA, His Radio Show

September 26, 2025

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) CEO Erika Kirk appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show” Friday, saying the show would feature rotating hosts while there was a “blueprint” for the organization.

TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was gunned downduring a Sept. 10 TPUSA “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University, where he was debating attendees. Erika, who succeeded her late husband as CEO of the conservative student group,said that some of the co-hosts and staff for Kirk on his radio show were “pieces of his brain.”

“Collectively, each one of you are a piece of his brain,” Erika Kirk said. “I know we’ve talked about this. Blake [Neff], economics, foreign policy, Andrew [Korvet], pretty much a lot of stuff. Mikey [McCoy], humor, Christianity, sports, youth, social, pop culture, Miss Daisy, like everyone, has a piece of his brain that still lives on, andso what I’m getting at here is, the Charlie Kirk Show is not going anywhere. My husband’s voice will live on; the show will go on. We will have rotating hosts.”

Erika Kirk forgave her husband’s alleged assassin during an emotional speech at Sunday’s memorial service for the TPUSA founder. During her appearance on the show, she hinted that her husband had an immense library of content that could take the show beyond 2030.

“We have decades’ worth of my husband’s voice. We have unused material from speechesthat he’s had that no one has heard yet,” Erica Kirk said. “We have Sunday specials lined up to the brim, because my husband was so intentional about making sure that there was enough content, always.”

“We would not do a speech unless we could get the video and the audio,” Korvet added, with Erika Kirk adding, “One hundred percent.

So,we have speeches that no one’s heardof, we have interviews that no one’s heard of.”

Erika Kirk hinted that there were also plans for the conservative student group, whichhas seen a flood of applications since Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“Similar with Turning Point USA, Charlie had a plan moving past 2030 that he’s shared with the teamand has implemented so we’re not going anywhere,” Erika Kirk said. “We have the blueprint.”

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/09/26/charlie-kirks-widow-reveals-plans-for-the-future-of-tpusa-his-radio-show/

Charlie Kirk's Widow Reveals Plans For The Future Of TPUSA, His Radio Show

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>>23662384 my parents had 10

>>23662448 thx anon for posting this

>>23662433 the hideous nature of these people are not only greedy capitalism it’s satanism. Sacrificing lives to their god Money

>>23662424 sorry but I warned you

27 Sep, 2025 16:07

Poland cuts off cash to idle Ukrainians

The state benefits will be reserved for refugees who have obtained employment from now on

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has signed a bill tightening the rules for Ukrainian refugees receiving state benefits.

While the legislation offers Ukrainians the ability to stay in Poland until at least March 2026, it links their access to benefits, including the monthly “800 plus” zloty child support allowance ($220 or more), to proof of employment for at least one parent and school enrollment for their dependents.

Other benefits now reserved only for Ukrainiansworking in Poland include health programs, prescription drug coverage, and medical and dental services.

The Ukrainian refugees will now alsohave to show they earn at least 50% of the minimum wage, with their compliance checked monthly. The new legislation envisions a few exemptions, namely for people with disabilities.

The adopted measure spells the end for “tourism from Ukraine at the expense of Polish taxpayers,” the head of the president’s office, Zbigniew Bogucki, has said.

The Polish president is set to introduce two additional bills concerning the refugees shortly,namely on tightening rules to get the country’s citizenship and on criminalization of the promotion of hardline Ukrainian nationalist movements, he added.

“Through his previous vetoes, the president forced the government, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, to work and propose solutions that are not perfect but certainly better,” Bogucki told reporters.

Back in August, Nawrocki vetoed the earlier version of the bill, which would have simply extended the then-existing benefits system without any changes.The president has repeatedly argued that only those refugees who contribute to Poland’s economy should be eligible for state benefits.

Poland has been one of the top destinations for Ukrainian refugees since the escalation of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow in February 2022.The country is believed to have welcomed over a million refugees from the country since then.

https://www.rt.com/news/625377-poland-ukraine-aid-cut/

Now I can have pride I’m a quarter Polish! KEK

27 Sep, 2025 14:30

Russian flag returned to country’s disabled athletes

The international Paralympic Committee has fully restored Moscow’s membership in the organization

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has voted against prolonging Russia’s suspension,allowing disabled athletes from the country to participate under the nation’s flag.

Russia and Belarus were banned from the Olympics and Paralympicsfollowing the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, which also led to their exclusion from other major sporting events. Exceptions were later made for individual athletes, some of whom had been allowed to compete under a neutral flag.

The IPC said in a statement on Saturday that its ==members at the organization’s General Assembly in Seoul, South Korea have voted not to maintain the partial suspension•= of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC). In the final stage of the vote, 91 delegates supported lifting all restrictions on Moscow, with 77 being against it and eight abstaining.

“This decision means NPC (national Paralympic committee) Russia now regain their full rights and privileges of IPC membership… The IPC will work with NPC Russia to put practical arrangements in place for this as soon as reasonably possible,” the statement read.

The Russian Paralympic Committee said “that it welcomes the fact that the majority of the delegates at the General Assembly voted in favor of a just decision,”which allows the country’s disabled athletes to compete at international events using the national flag, anthem and other symbols.

Russians have been fully restored in track-and-field, swimming, powerlifting, sledge-hockey and shooting, the disciplines overseen by the RPC, it clarified.

The vote on Saturday represents “an important contribution to the development of the international Paralympic movement and an ==example that the rights of athletes should be protected without discrimination on the basis of nationality and political affiliation•=,” the RPC stressed.

Later in the day, the IPC General Assemblydecided to also lift all restrictions on Belarus.

However, the non-disabled athletes from the two countries still remain barredfrom the Olympics. The IOC ruled earlier this month that the Russian and Belarusian teams will be barred from the 2026 Winter Games, hosted by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, with only vetted participants in individual sports being allowed to compete in a neutral status.

(This is absolutely idiotic and racist to still ban normal athletes to compete, Russian should sue with a class action lawsuit against the Olympic Committee and racist leadership.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/625369-paralympics-russian-flag-anthem/

27 Sep, 2025 01:28

Orban reveals what he told Trump about Russian oil

Cutting energy ties with Moscow would put Hungary’s economy “on its knees,” the country’s prime minister has said

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told US President Donald Trump in a recent phone call that his country’s economy would plummet almost instantly if it stopped receiving Russian oil and gas.

Budapest continues to resist mounting pressure from Brussels and Washington to end its reliance on Russian energy, citing geographic and infrastructural constraints as well as national security interests.

“If Hungary is cut off from Russian oil and natural gas, immediately, within a minute, Hungarian economic performance will drop by 4%,” Orban said in his regular interview on Friday. “It means the Hungarian economy would be on its knees.”

Asked whether Trump accepted his arguments during their phone call on Thursday,Orban replied: “America has its arguments and interests, Hungary has its own. Our task is to express and represent them clearly. If we are friends, we listen to each other – and then everyone does what they think is.

Trump appeared to acknowledge Orban’s concerns,describing him as a “great guy” and a “great friend of mine.”

“Hungary, you know, they’re landlocked. And they don’t have a nice ocean where ships can sail in from all over the world. You know, they have one pipeline,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday. He was referring to the Druzhba (Friendship) oil pipeline, which has recently been targeted by Ukraine, disrupting supplies to Hungary and Slovakia.

“And Slovakia, too. They’re sort of married to one pipeline. So I just don’t want to have people go blaming them,” Trump added.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto reaffirmed that Budapest would not abandon its “national interests” under external pressure, following a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov just hours after the Orban-Trump call.

Szijjarto also blasted Brussels for failing to defend member states’ energy securityin the wake of the Druzhba attacks. “Instead of protecting our energy security, they gave us lectures. And you know, this is a scandal, I think,” he said.

https://www.rt.com/news/625351-orban-trump-russian-oil/