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Acetaminophen sends more than 50,000 people to US emergency rooms and kills 500+ a year, about half of them by accident. It's the one part of the combo bottle that works, hiding beside two ingredients Richman calls placebo-grade.
Readers fired back with counter-studies, accusing the essay of citing only the research that agrees with it.
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The vaccine in question is not COVID. It is a seasonal flu shot built on mRNA, which can be reformulated late enough to chase the strains that actually circulate rather than a months-old guess.
The 'agency drama' in the headline traces to Vinay Prasad, an FDA official critics call vaccine-skeptical. The expert committee recommended approval over that internal resistance.
Then the thread turned on the official's defenders, and on the article itself for citing no data.
