{"id":22114,"date":"2023-12-17T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=22114"},"modified":"2023-12-17T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T17:41:09","slug":"renewed-trust-in-public-health-agencies-lies-in-a-return-to-science-not-special-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=22114","title":{"rendered":"Renewed Trust in Public Health Agencies Lies in a Return to Science, Not Special Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire<\/a><\/p>\n

By Michael Chamberlain
\nReal Clear Wire<\/p>\n

Among the direst casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic is Americans\u2019 trust in public health authorities. According to a\u00a0Pew Research<\/a>\u00a0poll, prior to the pandemic more than three-quarters of adults rated \u201cpublic health officials \u2013 such as those at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u201d as doing an excellent or good job. Now just a little over half rate them so highly. Among some groups, it\u2019s far lower.\u00a0As new CDC Director Mandy Cohen has acknowledged<\/a>, \u201cTrust is easily broken and, as folks know, trust takes time to rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n

For citizens to trust the public health establishment, they must have confidence that these institutions are guided by science, free of political or social agendas. Yet on countless issues \u2013 even the most critical to public health \u2013 federal health agencies appear to be failing this challenge.<\/p>\n

Take the significant public health issue of youth tobacco use. CDC\u2019s annual\u00a0National Youth Tobacco Survey<\/a>\u00a0(NYTS) is a key input for informing federal regulators\u2019 tobacco-related policy agenda. The\u00a0voluntary survey<\/a>\u00a0is administered to middle and high school students through their schools \u201cto provide national data on long-term, intermediate, and short-term indicators key to the design, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive tobacco prevention and control programs.\u201d Why then, did the 2023 survey ask kids if they are transgender?<\/a> How does it further tobacco regulation to know kids\u2019 sexual orientation, or if they\u2019ve felt discriminated against because of their race?<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the CDC may be offering inappropriate financial incentives to underage NYTS participants<\/a>, potentially influencing the integrity and accuracy of responses. Because \u201c[t]obacco research studies with adolescents report that recruiting smokers to participate is substantially more difficult than recruiting nonsmokers,\u201d the CDC said, \u201cwe propose to offer a $50 incentive to boost participation in the cognitive interviews among youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given that eventual Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of tobacco products is driven by NYTS results, the ethical and methodological implications of paying kids to say they smoke are far reaching.<\/p>\n

Like the CDC\u2019s questionable approach on the NYTS, the FDA\u2019s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has used its mandate to reduce youth tobacco use in ways even the courts have found incompatible with sound science. For instance, in July a federal judge struck down the FDA\u2019s attempted regulation of premium cigars because of the agency\u2019s misrepresentation<\/a> of data on the prevalence of youth<\/a> cigar smoking.<\/p>\n

Now the FDA is preparing to finalize a ban on menthol products even as evidence mounts that such bans can increase cigarette sales and use, building much of its case<\/a> on reducing youth tobacco addiction.<\/p>\n

A Yale School of Public Health study<\/a> partly funded by the FDA found that banning menthol e-cigarettes increased the sale of regular cigarettes and that 71 percent of the increased cigarette sales were non-menthol, \u201c<\/strong>suggesting that restrictions on menthol cigarettes would not substantially reduce sales.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concerned the ban \u201cwould simply create a black market for these products,\u201d Congressional<\/a>investigators cited real world state experiments: After California\u2019s 2022 ban, \u201ca study<\/a> found that roughly one in five cigarettes smoked were menthols even six months later, of which 27.6 percent were imported.\u201d Clearly, illicit smugglers (read: China and Mexican drug cartels) will fill the void created by a ban.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the scientific integrity issues plaguing the administration\u2019s proposed ban may be overshadowed by social justice concerns. Al Sharpton\u2019s National Action Network<\/a> has come out against the proposed rule, saying the ban targets \u201cblack adult smokers\u201d and could lead to incidents like Eric Garner\u2019s death while police were arresting him for selling\u00a0\u201cloose, untaxed cigarettes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is the FDA staffed by anti-tobacco zealots who ignore studies they themselves funded? Or are special interests helping drive the agency\u2019s crusade? CTP is 100 percent funded by user fees. Yet user fees are a black box of accountability. Protect the Public\u2019s Trust has been forced to sue the agency for information about how the CTP \u2013 as well as its sister agencies at the FDA focused on other important health issues like women\u2019s health \u2013spends these fees.<\/p>\n

If the public can\u2019t rely on public health authorities to make decisions based on sound science for the most serious and high-profile issues, what confidence can it have in the countless other decisions and advice it renders every day? Americans need to be able to trust the actions and pronouncements of public health authorities. For that to happen, sound science can\u2019t be substituted for the sake of advancing a special interest agenda.<\/p>\n

Michael Chamberlain is Director of Protect the Public\u2019s Trust<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>This article was originally published by RealClearHealth and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Renewed Trust in Public Health Agencies Lies in a Return to Science, Not Special Interests<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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