watching Trump’s press conference and yes he is blaming autism on Tylenol. I hope Tylenol lays down the craziest lawsuit on Earth. I hope it makes their reaction to the 1980’s Tylenol murder look like child’s play
#the 80s what
the 80s tylenol murders. tl;dr: you know that tamper seal on new bottles of medicine everyone hates? those are there because in the 1980s, some freak went into a pharmacy and poisoned a bunch of tylenol. 7 people died in the initial crime, more in subsequent copycat crimes. they never caught who did it.
Chicago Tylenol murders - Wikipedia
Another thing here is that the company's response to the crisis is, to this day, frequently taught in business classes as a model of how to handle a crisis.
Even though they weren't doing anything differently from other medication companies that made them vulnerable to this--and it remains unclear whether the tampering was happening in the factory, the stores, or some other part of the supply chain--they moved very quickly to recall products and develop tamper-resistant packaging, and as a result they regained the public's trust a lot more quickly than you might guess. (And the new packaging they developed also became the industry standard.)
So part of the comparison here, is that if Tylenol manages to pull off a similarly effective response to this, it could be a playbook for other companies and organizations to resist Trump's baseless attacks.
Funny yall say this, we used the 'Tylenol causes autism' paper on our Principles of Research and Epidemiology class today as an example of a poorly-executed study that doesn't account for confounding and other types of biases. At a doctoral level. Aren't they embarrassed???
