re: Tylenol tweet from 2017 resurfaces & is making the rounds

My mistake. Good on you for not getting sucked into the "everything is politics" garbage that is infesting the MSM right now.

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Where did anything change that Tylenol can be taken under the direction of a physician while pregnant?

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Read the post again, bud.

But it does matter. Whether it’s a quick customer-service reply or a formal company statement does matter. Corporations go into hyper-CYA mode around pregnancy, so a social-media rep is going to default to the safest, most liability-proof answer possible ("we don’t recommend..."). That’s a very different thing from the company’s official labeling reviewed by FDA, or the guidance you see from the obstetricians' professional organizations and other medical bodies. It's not in the same universe.

I know because I’ve been through the process twice very recently with my preggers wife.

Pretty much every medication a pregnant woman is allowed to take comes with the disclaimer to take the lowest dose possible for the shortest period of time.

This is because it is difficult to ethically test medications in pregnant women.

Tylenol IS safe for pregnant women taken reasonably and as directed by their doctors.

I don’t understand to purported conspiracy. The medical community clearly has no issue contraindicating pain meds - they’ve pulled the recommendation from essentially all of the other ones.

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That didn’t happen

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”DO NOT TAKE TYLENOL”
“TYLENOL IS BAD”

“Cuba doesn’t take Tylenol and they don’t have autism”

Etc etc

He said the first two things over and over. It’s direct contradiction to his actual FDA and expert statements

One direct quote since you will ask

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"I want to say it like it is, don't take Tylenol. Don't take it," Trump said.

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The FDA confirmed studies show a correlation. This isnt difficult stuff.

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And the FDA said directly and definitively to not take Tylenol?

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"I want to say it like it is, don't take Tylenol. Don't take it," Trump said.

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So if you follow the actual FDA guidance you have to go against what Trump said….Not difficult as you say

Ah, that's fair.. I think he thought that the context might matter for interpretation and it might or might not. E.g. if the deleted tweet was "is it safe if I take Tylenol every day through my whole pregnancy?" vs. as a one-off headache during pregnancy, but you're right that they might just respond to everything with CYA. In any case, my larger point is to the OP, which treats this as a gotcha, which you don't subscribe to, so sorry for getting my wires crossed.

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TBoy poo poo'd it because it was a response to another tweet. Whether it was an original public tweet from the company or a public response to another tweet makes no difference. It's the same statement from the company whether it's a response or not.

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Of course you make your reality up.

I suggested that to understand a comment we needed context. Was the Tylenol twitter discussing autism? Has the maker of acetaminophen concealed a known causal relationship with autism? The context of the discussion was not presented. That is still the case.

But I guess you are right. And Trump is right.

If Tylenol says that they don't recommend pregnant women taking their products, THEN IT IS PROVEN THAT TYLENOL CAUSES AUTISM.