Selena Simmons-Duffin
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No, I've got a six-year-old and a nine-year-old at home, so I can't even remember the last time I did a thing that was fun.
No, I've got a six-year-old and a nine-year-old at home, so I can't even remember the last time I did a thing that was fun.
No, I've got a six-year-old and a nine-year-old at home, so I can't even remember the last time I did a thing that was fun.
Oh, that sounds sad. No, I mean, but yeah, that's where I'm coming from.
Oh, that sounds sad. No, I mean, but yeah, that's where I'm coming from.
Oh, that sounds sad. No, I mean, but yeah, that's where I'm coming from.
So I'm retired now. That's amazing.
So I'm retired now. That's amazing.
So I'm retired now. That's amazing.
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.
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.