When I was a kid aspirin was used for everything, from a headache to fever, etc, now no one uses it anymore, and everyone uses paracetamol and ibuprofen instead...
It's shocking to me how we still refer to paracetamol and ibuprofen in the same breath when their relative risks are so different.
Are they? Maybe acetaminophen (i.e. paracetamol) is many times more dangerous than ibuprofen, but still, in absolute terms it must be low if used according to guidelines.
I mean, most people don’t know anyone who has died or been injured from acetaminophen, so from most normal people’s everyday perspective it simply does the same thing as ibuprofen, regardless of whether that’s scientifically correct. Thus it’s easy to understand why people talk about them in the same breath.