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Tylenol

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Tylenol

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Tylenol is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between December 22, 2021 and October 30, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Like every medication, including Tylenol, aspirin, etc”; “go home, take some Tylenol and come back if you don’t feel better”; “Avoid Painkillers, Including Tylenol”. It most often appears alongside FDA, US, Benjamin Jolley.

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  • Category: Brands
  • Mention count: 5
  • Issue count: 5
  • First seen: December 22, 2021
  • Last seen: October 30, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

The FDA Has Punted Decisions About Luvox Prescription To The Deepest Recesses Of The Human Soul
December 22, 2021 · Original source
What are the risks? Like every medication, including Tylenol, aspirin, etc, Luvox has some common minor side effects and some rare major ones. But let’s step back a second. Fluvoxamine is a bog-standard SSRI. Its side effects are generic SSRI side effects. We give SSRIs to 30 million people a year, or about 10% of all Americans. As a psychiatrist, I’m not supposed to say flippant things like “we give SSRIs out like candy”. We do careful risk-benefit analysis and when appropriate we screen patients for various risk factors. But after we do all that stuff, we give them to 10% of Americans, compared to 12% of Americans who got candy last Halloween. So you can draw your own conclusion about how severe we think the risks are.
Inline links: 12% of Americans
Highlights From The Comments On Health Care Systems
January 27, 2022 · Original source
But “go home, take some Tylenol and come back if you don’t feel better” is actually quite an effective strategy in this GP-as-gatekeeper model. Most of your patients feel better and don’t come back, as you couldn’t have done anything for them anyway. This keeps costs down and keeps the emergency room just for actual emergencies.
Obscure Pregnancy Interventions: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
April 13, 2022 · Original source
Only the sinister foreign “black licorice” contains glycyrrhizin. The red licorice eaten by normal red-blooded Americans is (as per American tradition) made out of corn syrup derivatives with no real licorice whatsoever, and should be fine. Avoid Painkillers, Including Tylenol (Tier 2) Doctors have been gradually chipping away at pregnant women’s ability to use pain medication. First it was “don’t use opioids, your baby could have birth defects”. Then it was “and don’t use ibuprofen, your baby could have kidney problems”. Then it was “and don’t use too much aspirin either, your baby could get cardiovascular problems”. That left Tylenol (aka Panadol, paracetamol, acetaminophen, etc) as the only pregnancy-safe pain reliever. Well, bad news…
Doctors have been gradually chipping away at pregnant women’s ability to use pain medication. First it was “don’t use opioids, your baby could have birth defects”. Then it was “and don’t use ibuprofen, your baby could have kidney problems”. Then it was “and don’t use too much aspirin either, your baby could get cardiovascular problems”. That left Tylenol (aka Panadol, paracetamol, acetaminophen, etc) as the only pregnancy-safe pain reliever. Well, bad news…
Last year, Nature Reviews Endocrinology published Consensus Statement: Paracetamol Use In Pregnancy - A Call For Precautionary Action, by ninety-one leading scientists. It argued that Tylenol use during pregnancy might cause neurodevelopmental and urogenital disorders in children. They argue that Tylenol babies have higher risk of abnormal hormone profiles, abnormal urinary tract development, and ADHD. What’s their evidence?
Inline links: Consensus Statement: Paracetamol Use In Pregnancy - A Call For Precautionary Action
Updates on Lumina Probiotic
April 16, 2024 · Original source
Causes minor side effects for some people, same scale as Tylenol: 30%
Links For October 2025
October 30, 2025 · Original source
18: The politics of RFK Jr’s Tylenol announcement (X). RFK “overpromised an autism report with a tight deadline to his base and to Trump, who is curious about autism in a sort of hobbyist way.” He originally planned to blame vaccines, but this would have required him to do something about them, and he didn’t have enough political capital for that. The Tylenol announcement let him satisfy his conspiracy theorist base without offending any powerful lobbies - Tylenol is generic, doesn’t make Big Pharma any money, and even the Tylenol manufacturers don’t care that much about an extra easy-to-ignore warning against use during pregnancy (hint for Europeans who don’t understand this story: Tylenol = paracetamol). I continue to believe the real reason for rising autism rates is increased diagnosis.
Inline links: The politics of RFK Jr’s Tylenol announcement (X), is increased diagnosis