Meh. Tylenol has been prescribed safely over the counter since before I was born. Billions of people take it without incident around the world. It's one of the safest drugs out there, including for pregnant women and children. And here's the best part. After you read all that hype about hepatotoxicity (which is 100% real), Tylenol is also the recommended painkiller if you have liver disease. You just have to take smaller doses and accept a lower maximum daily dose to do it safely. The other options are actually worse.

Like any drug, if you take too much of it, it'll hurt you. That's true of any drug. Even that stupid little baby aspirin that people take to prevent heart attacks has now been shown in most people to be more likely to cause a major bleeding event than to prevent a heart attack. And let's be clear, aspirin's a great drug!

The difference between a medicine and a poison is the dose, and all people need to do a bare ass minimum of work to read the label or ask a pharmacist how to take a drug safely. The liver issue is real but also easily preventable by simply not taking too much of it. The thresholds are clearly defined. And if you get into trouble, the treatment is simple, cheap, and effective - you just give antioxidants to help the liver detoxify the toxic metabolite.

This author's whole resume is a career spent opposing western pharmaceuticals in favor of "natural" products, and this scaremongering report which doesn't put anything into real context, let alone provide the same high level of evidence for alternatives that we have for Tylenol just comes off as activism, not science.