It's kind of silly to say "the FDA would never approved it today". The FDA pulls drugs off the market all the time. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/

It's kind of silly to say "the FDA would never approved it today". The FDA pulls drugs off the market all the time. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/12/11/2018-26712/list-of-drug-products-that-have-been-withdrawn-or-removed-from-the-market-for-reasons-of-safety-or https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/12/11/2018-26... Approximately 150 people die in the US each year due to accidental overdoses of acetaminophen. At the peak, 16,500 people died in the US from NSAIDs (aspirin, ibuprofen, etc) each year, mostly from GI bleeds. Acetaminophen looks massively safer than the other alternatives right now.