Selena Simmons-Duffin

He said the decision to make an enforcement action on something that FDA thinks is maybe not good for consumers could be a staffer's cousin got sick and they looked into it. It's like really kind of arbitrary. Really, really arbitrary. And he's like, you know, FDA has gotten things wrong before. And the economic consequences of that have been huge.

Like there was one year where they said, oh, I don't know about cranberries. Like there's something wrong with cranberries. Don't eat cranberries this Thanksgiving. And the whole industry tanked. So there is that. OK.

Like there was one year where they said, oh, I don't know about cranberries. Like there's something wrong with cranberries. Don't eat cranberries this Thanksgiving. And the whole industry tanked. So there is that. OK.

Like there was one year where they said, oh, I don't know about cranberries. Like there's something wrong with cranberries. Don't eat cranberries this Thanksgiving. And the whole industry tanked. So there is that. OK.

The other side of it is that the elephant in the room, maybe the reason I think that a lot of people jumped on this report that FDA had come after this poppers company is because poppers is something that the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has mentioned. And he has said that poppers are the real cause of AIDS and HIV is not.

The other side of it is that the elephant in the room, maybe the reason I think that a lot of people jumped on this report that FDA had come after this poppers company is because poppers is something that the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has mentioned. And he has said that poppers are the real cause of AIDS and HIV is not.

The other side of it is that the elephant in the room, maybe the reason I think that a lot of people jumped on this report that FDA had come after this poppers company is because poppers is something that the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has mentioned. And he has said that poppers are the real cause of AIDS and HIV is not.

That is not true. Right. It was a guess at the very, very, very, very beginning in the early 80s when healthy, young gay men were coming down with rare cancers. And it was really confusing. There was one paper published in The Lancet that said, you know, we noticed that some of the people who came down with this cancer had used poppers. And of course, it wasn't the poppers.

That is not true. Right. It was a guess at the very, very, very, very beginning in the early 80s when healthy, young gay men were coming down with rare cancers. And it was really confusing. There was one paper published in The Lancet that said, you know, we noticed that some of the people who came down with this cancer had used poppers. And of course, it wasn't the poppers.

That is not true. Right. It was a guess at the very, very, very, very beginning in the early 80s when healthy, young gay men were coming down with rare cancers. And it was really confusing. There was one paper published in The Lancet that said, you know, we noticed that some of the people who came down with this cancer had used poppers. And of course, it wasn't the poppers.

It was that they were getting AIDS. I think it alarms a lot of people that the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has espoused this theory that is long, long, long, long, long debunked. There is also a video clip of him making this connection between poppers and AIDS, a connection that just does not exist.

It was that they were getting AIDS. I think it alarms a lot of people that the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has espoused this theory that is long, long, long, long, long debunked. There is also a video clip of him making this connection between poppers and AIDS, a connection that just does not exist.

It was that they were getting AIDS. I think it alarms a lot of people that the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has espoused this theory that is long, long, long, long, long debunked. There is also a video clip of him making this connection between poppers and AIDS, a connection that just does not exist.

Again, to be clear, it's an undated video, but it started circulating on the Internet a couple of years ago.

Again, to be clear, it's an undated video, but it started circulating on the Internet a couple of years ago.

Again, to be clear, it's an undated video, but it started circulating on the Internet a couple of years ago.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's a good point that Kennedy isn't the only one with these views, but he now has enforcement power, right? He's in charge of all of the health agencies of the federal government. And HIV groups were really concerned when he was just even announced as the nominee because of these statements that he had made in the past.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's a good point that Kennedy isn't the only one with these views, but he now has enforcement power, right? He's in charge of all of the health agencies of the federal government. And HIV groups were really concerned when he was just even announced as the nominee because of these statements that he had made in the past.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's a good point that Kennedy isn't the only one with these views, but he now has enforcement power, right? He's in charge of all of the health agencies of the federal government. And HIV groups were really concerned when he was just even announced as the nominee because of these statements that he had made in the past.

There is some reporting that HIV prevention work at CDC is going to lose funding dramatically. And a lot of questions about how the global effort to reduce AIDS infections is going to look if the U.S., which has quite a high burden of HIV infections, is going to hold back from the prevention efforts that public health experts know actually does work.