Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz, of whom I’m not a fan, had one superb line that he used rather a lot when working on the Democratic ticket final summer season: “Thoughts your individual rattling enterprise.” He didn’t actually imagine it. Somebody who units up a snitch line in the course of the Covid lockdown doesn’t actually imagine that authorities ought to thoughts its personal enterprise. However, regardless of Walz’s hypocrisy, it’s nonetheless a very good thought.
A few of us, although, had the faint hope that Donald Trump can be a bit of extra open to the concept of presidency minding its personal rattling enterprise. On some points, resembling mandates for fuel stoves and bathe heads, he has come via.
However on another very huge points, he has gone the opposite manner. I warned buddies who have been considering that with RFK, Jr. as the pinnacle of HHS was a very good decide, that we might have “the nanny state on steroids.” I’m turning out to be proper.
The newest occasion is Marty Makary, whom different buddies had mentioned can be a very good decide as head of the Meals and Drug Administration, and who solutions to RFK, Jr.
I want.
Right here’s what my buddy Dr. Jeff Singer writes about Makary’s newest:
On Could 13, the Meals and Drug Administration introduced plans to drag fluoride dietary supplements, resembling tablets and drops, off the market. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary acknowledged that if individuals need their kids to keep away from dental caries, they need to have them eat much less sugar and follow good dental hygiene. Whereas Dr. Makary emphasizes eating regimen and hygiene, each vital, his method ignores the proof that fluoride, used appropriately, performs an important preventive position.
In brief, you plebes, do it my manner.
There’s such an apparent answer to the difficulty of fluoride in water and Jeff lays it out properly:
It’s one factor when government-monopoly water firms cease fluoridating the water, permitting individuals uncomfortable with consuming fluoridated water to decide out. It’s a wholly completely different matter to disclaim entry to fluoride for individuals who want to eat it.
If individuals want to get pleasure from its advantages, there are lots of methods to acquire fluoride: from bottled fluoridated water to fluoride tablets and drops, varnish, and toothpaste. The FDA’s proposal to take away drops and tablets from the market undermines sufferers’ autonomy by denying them the correct to eat a product with advantages that, for them, outweigh its dangers.
Jeff goes on, fairly rightly, to push his new ebook, writing:
In my ebook, Your Physique, Your Well being Care, I record numerous methods the federal government ignores our self-ownership and infringes on our proper to make our personal well being care choices. If the FDA’s proposed ban on fluoride tablets and drops is adopted, this have to be added to the record.
