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Paracetamol was first made in the 1800's though.
Or are they just blaming a certain brand?
Direct from Wikipedia
The left has misinformation too. Science is on our side; there’s no reason to propagate this shit.
collapsed inline media
It's always about money.
Wonder what the announcement will be? Wonder which drug they'll push and which of Trumps cronies will own the pharma company
Dr Oz as another poster said on another post.
The argument would be that autism is on the rise, not that it's a new thing. I'm assuming this crowd understands the "rise" is from finer-tuned diagnoses. Hell, there may be another factor, but money says it ain't Tylenol.
Literally no Americans know what paracetamol is. Randomly ask anyone.
Americans know brand names: Tylenol, Advil, Prilosec, Ambien.
I’ll bet you could survey Americans and 999/1000 have never even have heard the word paracetamol. Or zolpidem, and slightly less often, omeprazole (though that one may be increasing due to the general state of things and subsequent need for prescriptions). Most won’t have heard anything but the brand names, and the brand names have been drilled into their heads by way of constant advertising.
US brands have spend stupid amounts of money making sure people think of their propriety name instead of the real name of any drug.
Americans know "paracetamol" about as well as you apparently know "acetaminophen".
They are the same compound.
"Paracetamol" is the generic term used in Europe and Australia. "Acetaminophen" is the generic term commonly used in the Americas.
Both are slightly less clunky words created from the corpse of "N-acetyl-para-aminophenol"
"Acetaminophen" takes the "acet" from "acetyl" and "aminophen" from "aminophenol".
"Paracetamol" takes the "para" part, and then a few other random letters that don't really make sence. "cet" from "acetyl", and maybe "am" from the start of "amphenol" with the "ol" ending from the same word, ignoring that it ends in "nol"?
Because it actually comes from a different chemical name for the same compound: para-acetylaminophenol
Americans barely know ‘acetaminophen’ , too. Some, sure. Most know Tylenol.
Nobody would've heard paracetamol, but you'd probably get some hits with acetaminophen. Not a lot, to be clear, but some.
I know several Americans who know what paracetamol is. Not sure it's as rare as you think.
I most certainly do because I’ve traveled a shit ton
I know almost all my meds by the generic names because I'm broke and that's what the pharmacy will give me. Ibuprofen, levothyroxine, etc. Alprazolam.