Johnson & Johnson: Is the ethical company in the room with us?
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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It's the quintessential American company - gaslighting the public, twisting regulators by the balls, and killing consumers in the name of shareholder value! This story is a smorgasbord of deviance - lies, fraud, corruption, cults, and a very sweaty CEO. So put on your lab coats and take out your popcorn as we dive into the pharmaceutical trash heap known as Johnson & Johnson - and yes, we're going to talk about Tylenol.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - History of J&J
12:15 - Busting the myths of the 1982 Tylenol cyanide murders
24:00 - Tylenol, liver failure, and the cost of doing business
38:30 - FDA <3 J&J
46:00 - The J&J credo on opposite day (Risperdal kills nursing home patients and gives young boys breasts!)
01:08:00 - Oops! Extra Asbestos (J&J Talc based baby powder)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A quick note, this episode was recorded before the Trump administration reached into a comically |
| 0:05.8 | large top hat in the Oval Office and pulled out a little piece of paper that said, |
| 0:10.8 | Well, let's see how we say that. |
| 0:15.2 | Acidaminophen, acetaminophen, which is basically commonly known as Tylenol. |
| 0:23.8 | And blame Tylenol for autism because the administration said in April, they were going to find the cure for autism in September, and now it's September. |
| 0:32.4 | And Donald Trump is stuck in the 80s, and he remembers that Ronald Reagan investigated the Tylenol murders in 1982 |
| 0:38.3 | and everybody loved that. But there is no credible scientific evidence linking Tylenol to autism. |
| 0:46.1 | But there is credible scientific evidence linking Tylenol to 30,000 Americans who get hospitalized |
| 0:51.8 | with liver damage and 150 Americans who die of liver failure |
| 0:55.3 | every year because of Tylenol overdose. And there is credible scientific and physical evidence |
| 1:02.3 | linking Johnson and Johnson, the company that made Tylenol, to a smorgasbord of negligence, |
| 1:08.0 | fraud, and corruption that killed and disfigured millions of people over the |
| 1:11.7 | past 50 years. So put on your lab coat and take out your popcorn because this is the corporate |
| 1:18.5 | gossip podcast. Johnson and Johnson is the ethical company in the room with us? |
| 1:26.2 | Welcome back to the corporate gossip podcast. I'm your host, CPA Skorn, Becca |
| 1:31.2 | Platsky, and I'm here when they co-host, who also is my brother. Data Analytics Playboy Adam |
| 1:36.8 | Platsky. And welcome to the episode that I really didn't want to do. I procrastinated this one probably for several months. I finished |
| 1:47.6 | the book over the summer. I had the outline done and I was like, I just don't want to do it. |
| 1:52.5 | You know, we've trashed other episodes before, maybe because we've done the research and we're |
| 1:56.5 | like, there's just no there there or there's just not enough information out there yet or it's a |
| 2:02.1 | developing story this episode is not that this one is incredibly juicy there is a lot to talk |
| 2:08.5 | about we have some villains we have some heroes we have secrets and drama but it's almost just |
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