Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Dr. Martin Makary, appeared on Wednesday on CNBC, where host Joe Kernen asked him questions about the administrator of the environmental protection agency Lee Zeldin’s announcement on greenhouse gases. Zeldin said that the Trump administration will cancel the 2009 scientific results on the harmful effects of greenhouse gases on human health.
This led to this exasperating exchange:
Kernen: They’re going to do that. Is it a danger to public health? If EPA and Lee Zeldin are able to do so, in your opinion?
Makary: You know, to be honest, I don’t know enough about this problem.
Kernen: You are in charge of our public health. Can you look at it?
Makary: So it’s really a problem with EPA. But look, there are a lot of things where we could just need better research. We have never talked about environmental exhibitions which can, for example, cause cancer. We only talk about chemo to treat it.
So stupid in a minute.
Makary has become one of the ignorants who offered strong Critics of COVVI-19 mandates and skepticism on the death of the pandemic, and it seems to be less an expert in public health and more an expert in disinformation.
His assertion that “we have never talked about environmental exhibitions which can, for example, cause cancer”, is so absurd, it is even difficult to grasp the lie it promotes. THE EPA official website devotes an important part of its mission to identify carcinogens. The FDA has worked in the same way for decades In this area – while Also Be responsible for approving treatment for cancer patients.
In May, Zeldin announcement Administration plans to cancel the rules that have limited “chemicals forever” in drinking water. The chemicals in question have been linked to cancers, reproductive and neurological problems and low birth weights.
But I’m sure Makary does not know about this problem either.
