Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday, July 14, 2023.

I'm John Puthor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor,

a greenwald high a John media commentary columnist Christine Rosen high Christine.

And Christine, hi John, you are muted. There we go. And Christine's colleague at the American

Enterprise Institute, Washington commentary columnist Matthew Kahnetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, Joe.

We are now being told that as per tame according to the World Health Organization,

maybe a carcinogenic property. I will not I will not hear of this. I will not listen to this.

Our food and drug administration does not agree that it is carcinogenic.

I've been drinking things with as per tame for 40 some odd years. I can't stop now unless they take

it off the market. And I think the idea that there is going to be a giant argument over this

sweetener between the public health bureaucracies of the United States and the World Health Organization,

both of which covered themselves in infamy in their handling of the public health emergency of our

time, is yet another is going to be another chink in the armor of the entire idea of public health

or a bomb that is being dropped on the yellow brick road of of of our public health establishment.

This just seems to me to be a madhouse mirror move and another sign that we're sort of going

back into the into the horrors of the 1970s when a different kind of out of control bureaucracy from

the type that we see now did this all the time like declared things and took them off the shelves

and market and with very little evidence that they were right there was actually a there were

there was a prior sweetener crisis over something called cyclamates in 1972, which was in almost

everything and then was removed. Maybe this is my own personal obsession as I as I as I

chug gallons of diet peeps snapple but is aspartame in diet peeps snapple? I assume I think it's

in everything. The it's funny you mentioned cyclomanian job because in that way in a high one of the

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