Over the past two years, Americans have learned just how inaccurate and outright wrong the ostensible experts can be, especially in regard to covid. For months on end, Americans have been fed a litany of contradictory mandates, recommendations, and “facts” that constantly changed. At the forefront of this stream of perpetually shifting goal posts was the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In early 2021, CDC director Rochelle Walensky had no problem going on national television and declaring to the world that if you took the covid-19 vaccine “you will not get or spread covid.” Within weeks, this was found to be entirely untrue.

The CDC also changed positions on masks several times, claimed you get catch covid from touching surfaces, and continues to recommend cloth masks, despite the massive pile of data showing they do absolutely nothing. Given the agencies track record over the last two years, it should come as no surprise that they have long been in the business of being wrong — laughably so.

Over the years, the Free Thought Project has reported on several videos put out by police departments of officers passing out, falling down, or otherwise going into distress after allegedly being exposed to fentanyl.

We have debunked these claims time and again, yet the videos keep coming out. Perhaps we now have the answer as to why that is — the CDC.

Within the CDC there is a smaller department known as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NIOSH claims to promote productive workplaces through safety and health research. But as the following video on their website shows, the last thing they appear to be interested in is research.

According to the CDC, this video helps “emergency responders understand the risks and communicate what they can do to protect themselves from exposure to illicit drugs.”

But it does nothing of the sort and actually does the opposite.

To save 13 minutes of boredom, there is no need to watch the video. It simply shows multiple cops enter a hotel room in which there is a tiny bit of fentanyl on the dresser. Within minutes of being in the room — and while wearing a respirator — one of the officers falls out. According to the video, the CDC, and the experts who conducted their “research,” this was due to fentanyl exposure — for merely being in the same room with the powder — and despite toxicology results showing negative for fentanyl.

Amanda D’Ambrosio, an Enterprise & Investigative Writer for MedPage Today interviewed several experts in the field about the CDC’s use of this video and their misinformed messaging on fentanyl exposure. She is warning that the CDC’s guidance is actually misleading law enforcement.

“No one has explained exactly what’s happened in that video, it’s all conjecture,” Brandon del Pozo, PhD, a drug policy and public health researcher at Brown University and former police chief told the outlet. “It is surprising to see something with such a basis in conjecture being presented by an agency that has a commitment to science.”

The NIOSH video provides little evidence confirming how these officers were exposed to the drugs, and no real explanation of the health effects that it aims to prevent, experts told MedPage Today. Drug researchers and scientists say that the video inflates law enforcement officers’ risk of overdose, incites fear within the police force, and ultimately, causes harm to people who use drugs.

As TFTP reported this week, overdose deaths in the U.S. have hit record numbers and of the more than 100,000 people who have died, roughly 70 percent of them involved fentanyl. Make no mistake, fentanyl is deadly but only when it is ingested.

You cannot overdose by merely being exposed to fentanyl.

Nevertheless, the “experts” at CDC and even the DEA continue to push this false narrative that “fentanyl exposure kills.”

“It’s so laughingly wrong, that it’s kind of scary,” said Jon Zibbell, PhD, a public health analyst at RTI International in North Carolina. “Think about how many overdoses we would have if every dealer that ever touched it or every user that touched it overdosed.”

Indeed, it is very scary and concerning that this same organization to whom millions of Americans turn for recommendations on everything from diet to medicine gets something to completely wrong and refuses to admit it. With experts like these, it’s no wonder the last two years have resembled something between a cross of Idiocracy and 1984.

Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist