RFK’s first major action as head of HHS is to eliminate petroleum-based dyes from food. But MAHA moms have been warning about these dyes for years — why has it taken so long to investigate?
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya tells Dr. Drew the pushback claimed “there’s no research proving it’s bad. Well, who’s going to do research proving it’s bad? […] No one has any incentive to research that’s proving it’s bad. You want a system that says: look… you’re not allowed to put petroleum-based dyes into children unless you prove it’s GOOD.”
“My job is to do research or to promote research that the private sector wouldn’t do,” Dr. Bhattacharya continues. “So if you have a discovery that says, look, this very, very inexpensive medication can solve this problem that this other very expensive drug does… who’s going to do that research?”
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the Director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States. He is a renowned health economist and a professor at Stanford School of Medicine. Follow him at https://x.com/DrJBhattacharya/ and the NIH at https://x.com/NIH
