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We truly live in the golden age of the moron.
As usual this is all made up and none of it happened
So he'll eat a Listeria salad and an Ecoli burger, washed down with some Girardia river water and think it was his bodies imbalance that made him sick???
How is that even something I have to Read? Fuck these morons.
This guy is in charge of the CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL. Not only responsible for the health of the nearly 400M US Citizens, but really globally in many ways. And this failson thinks you can sweat away ebola with some fucking supplements... that he happens to peddle.
I love the term "failson". It's such an apt description for these grifting fuckups.
When he dies, I hope they do an autopsy of his body to see how many parasites and infections he had.
It is insane to think that he is endorsing a theory that was widely rejected even by Miasma guys in the 19th century.
The miasma advocates were wrong, but they still did many things that were beneficial. The first water treatment plants that provided the first safe drinking water were advocated for by miasma advocates, and the London sewer system, one that is still being used today was also built by them.
Terrain theory? They did jack shit. Just a bunch of crazy nuts who rejected both miasma and germ theory in the late 19th century.
You mean environmental toxins like germs?
Those imbalances are claimed to be caused by poor nutrition and exposure to environmental toxins and stressors. (In his book, Kennedy erroneously labels this as “miasma theory,” but that is a different theory that suggests diseases derive from breathing bad air, vapors, or mists from decaying or corrupting matter.
I mean, let's not pretend that poor nutrition, environmental toxins and stressors, polluted air, and volatile gases don't contribute to disease.
Some diseases are bacterial, yes. RFK Jr.'s denial of germ theory is asinine, and his comprehension of the ideas he promotes is probably tenuous and inane. I'm not claiming that he's on to something.
But let's not lie to ourselves. Let's not fall for the stupidity by running clear to the opposite end of the stupidity.
Disease is complex and often precipitated by multiple factors. And environmental, toxicological, nutritional, and nervous factors absolutely do contribute to disease.
Ok, but the guy flat-out rejects absolute and established truth.
Right, this wasn't an endorsement of him. There are perfectly legitimate arguments you can make about why he's an idiot and why him being in his current position is a danger to public health.
But saying "he's wrong because he thinks disease is caused by environmental toxins and poor nutrition" is missing a lot of nuance, and is also harmful.
Microplastics? BPAs? PTFEs? So many other examples: from papermills, textiles, coal plants, fertilizers, meat production. All these can have harmful effects when concentrated near population centers, especially upstream of water sources.
I get that RFK jr. isn't talking about those things, and probably thinks they're fake. But those are all environmental toxins, and when you summarily dismiss the idea of toxins causing disease, these all get caught in the crossfire.
Oh I certainly don’t dismiss those at all. Of course environmental toxins and other hazards harm our health. RFK is basically at the point of “humours” and blood-letting and leeches. Even if he says that environmental harms exist, he is still citing long-debunked pseudoscience. I’m sure he thinks it’s nothing a little beef tallow won’t solve, though.
yikes, dude is gonna be draining the four humors.
Who's the barber here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ
What was only recently satire is an actual position.
They will kill you and your kids.
Hopefully not me, I follow medical science, although obviously herd wide health practices will suffer which may result in higher mortality for everyone, even those who follow medical science.
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Those imbalances are claimed to be caused by poor nutrition and exposure to environmental toxins and stressors.
So, like swimming in streams polluted with sewage?
like inhaling Trumps dookie stank
Lead
Lysenkoism.
The Horseman known as Pestilence.
There’s also already a horseman for War. Who would be Death and Famine I wonder?
Famine, whoever is in charge of cutting funds for humanitarian projects the USA were supporting and threatening millions of lives.
Famine is Brooke Rollins, secretary of department of agriculture.
A kind of Terry Pratchett, Good Omens version, absolutely. "We don't actually have to make new plagues, we just convince enough people that the natural plagues they've already got don't exist, or the causes aren't what they've been told, or that the treatments do greater harm than the disease. In fact, we don't even have to deceive that many. A handful of posts to alternative medicine, conspiracy, and mom's net forums, and human nature will do the rest."
I need to read that one. Terry was a goddamn genius who got taken from us too soon.
I bet he doesn't wash his hands after using the bathroom. Also, does he not visit the dentist? He should stop getting his teeth cleaned/checked if he thinks germs don't cause disease.
Pete Hegseth bragged on TV that he had not washed his hands in 10 years, because "germs are not a real thing." These are stupid people.
These are stupid people.
And yet they were able to fully take over the United States government. Really says something about the movements and institutions opposing them.
Says more about the fragility of democracies. For other countries, the warning should be clear: do not fucking defund public education, do not restrict education.
Unfortunately, we keep electing people who defund education, because it's expensive, and then cry that people vote for morons who waste away tens or hundreds of billions of dollars...
Wowwww, somehow that honestly surprises me that even one of these magats could be this blindingly moronic
To be fair, when he was young his parents put his swing too close to the wall.
Fuckin Typhoid Mary. Can’t we exile him to an island for the rest of his life, too?
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This is all an attempt by the rich to reduce numbers of poor people. They need more people dying, so they’re going to pull out all the safety features we’ve built into our society to prolong life.
To reduce the number of non-working poor people. Or “useless eaters” as the psychotic, billionaire class calls them.
Or “useless eaters” as the psychotic, billionaire class calls them.
More projection, I see
Less “reduce the number,” and more “make the poor more tractable.” The rich still need human carpet to walk on, they just need it to be uneducated, fecund, and desperate to get under their feet.
Also divided. A divided proletariat (class of wage earners) can make less of a fist against the elite.
This contradicts their insistence that children should have children to stop population decline
Not really. What they want is for the older generation that has greater disability and likely hood to be drawing on services or retirement accounts to die off. Getting younger people to pop out more worker bees is how they keep the tax revenue flowing into social security etc and never have to pay out if they can kill off the infirm/ unprofitable.
Average life expectancy is dropping in the us while retirement age has increased by a decade. The two numbers are only something like 5 years separated now, maybe 7. Idk Im not looking it up right now.
Right-wing politics has always been an incoherent ragbag of momentarily convenient positions, insincerely held.
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