{"id":2370164,"date":"2024-11-18T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-fact-checks-itself-in-fact-check-of-rfk-cereal-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:54:06","slug":"nyt-fact-checks-itself-in-fact-check-of-rfk-cereal-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-fact-checks-itself-in-fact-check-of-rfk-cereal-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Fact-Checks Itself In Fact Check Of RFK Cereal Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-fact-checks-itself-in-fact-check-of-rfk-cereal-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2370164&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The New York Times faced backlash after\u200c an attempt to \u200cfact-check Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee \u200cfor\u2064 the Department of Health and Human Services, regarding his claims about \u200dFroot Loops cereal. In a previous article, the Times criticized Kennedy for \u2063claiming that the Canadian version of Froot \u2062Loops has fewer artificial\u200b ingredients\u2063 than\u200b the U.S. version. However, the newspaper&#8217;s\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">fact-check revealed<\/a> that both versions have a \u2063similar ingredient list, although the Canadian one includes natural colorings \u200dinstead of artificial dyes found in the U.S.\u200b version. \u200dFollowing public criticism\u2064 and \u2064virality of the original claim, the\u2062 Times issued a correction, clarifying\u200d that Kennedy was comparing the total number of ingredients, not\u200c just artificial ones. This correction further \u200cattracted mockery, as commentators noted that the Times inadvertently supported Kennedy&#8217;s point about ingredient differences. Billionaire Bill Ackman also criticized\u2064 the Times,\u2063 describing \u200dthe\u2064 situation as an embarrassment.\u2062 Additionally, recent \u200carticles \u2062in the \u200cTimes have been \u200dscrutinized for their promotion of \u2062seed\u200b oils in response \u2062to \u200cclaims made \u2064by Kennedy regarding their\u200d health effects.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The New York Times fact-checked itself in an embarrassing attempt to fact-check President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <\/p>\n<p>In an article published Friday on Kennedy&rsquo;s crusade to regulate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">food industry<\/a>, the paper inadvertently contradicted its own criticism of a claim by Kennedy related to a popular cereal marketed to children.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version,&rdquo; read the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BradCohn\/status\/1858165245287506141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original<\/a> print of The New York Times&rsquo; reporting. &ldquo;But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada&rsquo;s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used &lsquo;for freshness,&rsquo; according to the ingredient label.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>New York Times editors updated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/15\/health\/rfk-big-food-artificial-dyes-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> to include an additional comment from Kennedy on MSNBC from earlier this month after the excerpt went <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/nyts-fact-check-rfk-jrs-claims-about-popular-breakfast-cereal-stuns-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">viral<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article incorrectly described Mr. Kennedy&rsquo;s recent comments on Froot Loops,&rdquo; a correction read. &ldquo;He was comparing the total number of ingredients in the U.S. and Canadian versions of the cereal, not the number of artificial ingredients.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But the correction is not much better. Here&rsquo;s the updated text:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many ingredients. In an interview with MSNBC on Nov. 6, he questioned the overall ingredient count: &ldquo;Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it has two or three?&rdquo; Mr. Kennedy asked. He was wrong on the ingredient count, they are roughly the same. But the Canadian version does have natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used &ldquo;for freshness,&rdquo; according to the ingredient label.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the Times found fault with Kennedy&rsquo;s Froot Loops claim because the White House nominee failed to distinguish between artificial ingredients and natural ones in the original comment targeted by the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times was mocked online for having proved the point the paper was trying to discredit. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While trying to own RFK, the[NewYorkTimesownedthemselvesandprovedourpoint&rdquo;wroteJaimeeMichellanonlinepundit[NewYorkTimesownedthemselvesandprovedourpoint&rdquo;wroteJaimeeMichellanonlinepundit<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Billionaire Bill Ackman called the Times an &ldquo;embarrassment&rdquo; claiming he had to &ldquo;check the print paper just to make sure this was a real article.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is beyond absurd. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RobertKennedyJr<\/a> &ldquo;was wrong&rdquo; about Froot Loops having too many artificial ingredients compared to its Canadian version, and then goes on to explain the artificial colorings and preservatives in the U.S. vs the Canadian version.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/33UNfLBd3P\">https:\/\/t.co\/33UNfLBd3P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillAckman\/status\/1858203090324717757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Last week, veteran nutrition journalist Nina Teicholz fact-checked a separate article published by the Times this month promoting seed oils as part of a healthy diet.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Online forums, blogs and influencers say they&rsquo;re &lsquo;toxic,&rsquo; &lsquo;slowly killing you&rsquo; and driving up rates of diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases,&rdquo; wrote Alice Callahan, a health and nutrition reporter at the Times, after highlighting comments from Kennedy that &ldquo;Americans are being &lsquo;unknowingly poisoned&rsquo; by them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Callahan went on to quote a handful of &ldquo;nutrition scientists&rdquo; to push back on Kennedy&rsquo;s criticism of seed oils and published a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/15\/well\/eat\/rfk-jr-food-nutrition-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> Friday to claim &ldquo;Seed oils are a far better choice for health than solid fat alternatives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But Teicholz, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy\/dp\/1451624433\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2F3JYQ23GLY2N&amp;keywords=big+fat+surprise&amp;qid=1699586845&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=big+fat+surprise%2Cstripbooks%2C110&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet<\/em><\/a>  and the Substack &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsettledscience.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unsettled Science<\/a>,&rdquo; wrote in a long <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bigfatsurprise\/status\/1857513466241647044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> on X why Callahan, who relied on anti-meat industry sources, is wrong. While low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol drops with seed oil consumption, Teicholz wrote, &ldquo;reducing LDL-C through diet has NEVER been shown to reduce cardiovascular or total mortality and only rarely shown to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-essential-guide-to-heart-disease-symptoms-causes-treatments-and-other-remedies\/\" title=\"The Essential Guide to Heart Disease: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, and Other Remedies\">reduce cardiovascular events<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These &lsquo;hard&rsquo; health outcomes (heart attacks, death) are the ones that matter, and for them, lowering LDL-C through diet has no effect,&rdquo; Teicholz reported. Many large clinical trials have shown this.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>This article, by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> by Alice Callahan gives a &#128077;to vegetable (seed) oils. But in my view, she fails to make her case. This is a long tweet with hard facts, some&#128293;&#8252;&#65039;<\/p>\n<p>-Her first quote is from Stanford&#8217;s Chris Gardener, a longtime vegan, for ideological (non-health)&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Shvt1KAme7\">pic.twitter.com\/Shvt1KAme7<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Nina Teicholz, PhD (@bigfatsurprise) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigfatsurprise\/status\/1857513466241647044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times embarrassed itself while fact-checking Robert F. 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