MAHA gets nuttier: RFK Jr. likens sugar to crack

I hate to say this, but MAHA is getting nuttier and nuttier. Below are some quotes/assertions from Judge Jeanine’s interview with the creepy Calley Means, including a clip of RFK Jr.from today in West Virginia. The interview is below. My quick comments in bold.

  • Processed foods offend the “moral conscious of America.” I supposed processed foods are a moral issue because there’s no science backing MAHA’s processed foods scare?
  • “Sugar is as addictive as crack and its almost as bad for you. It kills you just as surely, just kills you a little slower. It feeds tumors. It’s destroys your body. It destroys your brain.” [RFK Jr.] I guess RFK Jr. would jail the Good Humor man?
  • Poor people should be blocked from buying soft drinks with food stamps? The government is going to start telling poor people what to eat? Will Oreos be off limits? Chocolate? Pizza? Chips? Where are the limits of food tyranny?
  • – ‘Our food is being weaponized’ [by the food industry]. Processed food is just food. It is safe, nutritious affordable and convenient.
  • – “The FDA doesn’t know what’s in our food.” What about all the labeling?

Chef Gruel: A Junk Science Fool

What follows is an X conversation I had this morning with Chef Andrew Gruel. I don’t have all his replies because, well, you have to get to the end of the story.

I was watching Fox & Friends this morning (segment below) when ChefGruel came on to talk about Robert Kennedy Jr. ordering the FDA to get rid of the Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) standard for new food additives.

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Milloy vindicated on Red Dye No. 3 cancer study

The author of the 1987 study on Red Dye No. 3, which is being cited as the basis for banning the dye as a carcinogen, admits his study didn’t link the dye with cancer as I explained in a video last year.

Related links: Daily Mail article | Milloy video

2-Minute Junking: Are pesticides in food dangerous?

Related links: Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children report

4-Minute Debunking: Trans fats cause heart disease?

Related links: McJunk Science | JunkScience.com posts on trans fast

3-Minute Junking: Prediabetes — Medicine or Marketing?

Related links: Science article

2-Minute Junking: Seed oils cause colon cancer?

Related links: Daily Mail article | Gut study | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention study

2-Minute Junking: Sugary drinks cause cardiovascular disease?

Related links: Study | Media release | Bradford Hill standards

1-Minute Junking: Weight loss study with no weight loss data?

Related Links: JAMA Open Network study | UPI article

2-Minute Junking: Red Dye No. 40 Hysteria

2-Minute Junking: Food preservative BHA causes cancer?

2-Minute Junking: Study links ultra-processed foods with premature death?

Related links: Study