Sharyl Attkisson: ‘I never thought I would see some of these types of changes in my lifetime.”
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I've never seen anything this big in terms of the reforms that are happening and being discussed among the government agencies.
I know they're not big enough for a lot of people.
I know it's too much for some people who didn't want to see these kinds of changes.
But any way you look at it, inside almost every major federal agency, there are these debates and discussions going on with people who are true believers somewhere in there in changing the broken systems that we've had that I think most of the public would agree have been broken for decades, but we've kind of given up on the thought or the hope that there would be real reform.
We just started to think we don't have any hope that something's going to change.
It's not always going to be pretty, but just what we've seen so far, I never thought I would see some of these types of changes in my lifetime.
We're suddenly talking about the removal of artificial food dyes, which have been linked to everything from cancer to ADHD and a whole lot of other chronic disorders that we're all suffering from.
There's so many toxic exposures.
The notion of fluoride coming out of the water, that's something that scientists, you may hear the opposite, but the good science has said for many years is something that is supported, that it should come out of the water for health and safety reasons.
And there's a dispute going on between agencies right now about that, but it is coming out of the water and some states are acting on their own in the meantime.
There is the safety of food being reformulated to get rid of some of the ultra-processed chemicals that we know for a fact.
Test in animals and sometimes in people is very harmful and yet have been ignored as our chronic health disease epidemics have exploded in this country.
Suddenly those are being addressed.
And I would say there's even been an influence of things that were untouchable topics on the news.
Maybe the media still doesn't get behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s position on them, but they're being discussed.
And they were in the realm of censorship.
You couldn't even speak of these things because they were falsely called conspiracy theories.
Now they're edging their way, I think, because of public pressure, as well as the administration change, into the daily discussion on the news like I've never seen them.
I used to say when people asked me 20 years ago, what are the most important news issues that you see in the future?
And it always came back to health things.
It went from the autism epidemic to more broadly, the chronic health disease epidemic happening in this country.
I said that 15 years ago.
That was almost never being addressed in any meaningful way where there would be action but for the chance to treat us with expensive treatments was almost never addressed by our political figures.