Selena Simmons-Duffin

OK, well, there's two answers to that. I'm going to start with FDA does not love poppers just as a baseline, right? Like the FDA has been issuing consumer warnings about poppers for years, like pre-Kennedy at HHS, saying, you know, these are serious chemicals, like they can make you really sick.

OK, well, there's two answers to that. I'm going to start with FDA does not love poppers just as a baseline, right? Like the FDA has been issuing consumer warnings about poppers for years, like pre-Kennedy at HHS, saying, you know, these are serious chemicals, like they can make you really sick.

Especially warning people that they're often sold, as you mentioned, in bodegas like next to small bottles of like energy drinks that you drink saying, don't drink these guys, you'll get poisoned. There have been some reports that use is increasing and so also poisonings are increasing. So that might explain why the FDA is newly interested in poppers.

Especially warning people that they're often sold, as you mentioned, in bodegas like next to small bottles of like energy drinks that you drink saying, don't drink these guys, you'll get poisoned. There have been some reports that use is increasing and so also poisonings are increasing. So that might explain why the FDA is newly interested in poppers.

Especially warning people that they're often sold, as you mentioned, in bodegas like next to small bottles of like energy drinks that you drink saying, don't drink these guys, you'll get poisoned. There have been some reports that use is increasing and so also poisonings are increasing. So that might explain why the FDA is newly interested in poppers.

Yeah, possibly. But I talked to an FDA law professor, Nathan Cortez, at Southern Methodist University. And I asked him, like, why would FDA suddenly get interested in poppers? And he was like, the FDA is so under-resourced that what they go after and why is truly random. Like, even in the best of times. Yeah.

Yeah, possibly. But I talked to an FDA law professor, Nathan Cortez, at Southern Methodist University. And I asked him, like, why would FDA suddenly get interested in poppers? And he was like, the FDA is so under-resourced that what they go after and why is truly random. Like, even in the best of times. Yeah.

Yeah, possibly. But I talked to an FDA law professor, Nathan Cortez, at Southern Methodist University. And I asked him, like, why would FDA suddenly get interested in poppers? And he was like, the FDA is so under-resourced that what they go after and why is truly random. Like, even in the best of times. Yeah.

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.

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.

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.