Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin appeared on Newsmax Tuesday, where he offered up a misleading garbage pile of context-free numbers about acetaminophen’s dangers—a day after Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reckless announcement pushing an unproven link between the medication and autism.

"Let me just give you some facts. So we've all heard of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Well, the FDA has FAERS—the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System. So, in 56 years of tracking Tylenol, there have been 39,540 deaths reported to FAERS,” Johnson said. “That's 706 per year.”

Johnson then went on to regurgitate unsubstantiated claims made by anti-vaxxers that thousands of Americans die annually as a result of complications from the COVID-19 vaccine.

“For ivermectin, you remember the one

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