Texas attorney general Ken Paxton took the Trump administration’s debunked-by-actual-doctors claims re: Tylenol on Tuesday and ran with them, suing Kenvue, the manufacturer of the drug, and claiming, without evidence, that taking Tylenol during pregnancy can cause autism.

In a lawsuit that made accusations even Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s FDA hasn’t put out there, Paxton claimed that the federal government “confirmed” Tylenol use during pregnancy “likely causes” autism. While it’s true that Donald Trump delivered a wild, rambling monologue on the supposed dangers of Tylenol last month, in which he told pregnant women, “Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take it. Fight like hell not to take it”—and failed multiple times to pronounce the word acetaminophen before final

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