Josh Bloom,ACSH
I'm not a titanic fan of Tylenol, which becomes rather obvious whether you read the first allotment of this two-allotment series. For a drug that is so widely used, and it is quite easy to consume enough,accidentally or otherwise, to buy enough to suffer a toxic overdose due to irreversible liver damage.
But drugs cannot be judged by safety alone. Both the good and the bad - benefits and risks - must be taken into account to score the actual measure of the quality of a drug. So whether Tylenol isn't all that safe, and you might expect that,at the very least, it should work well. Otherwise, or why would so many people be taking...
Source: realclearscience.com