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RFK jr having a 21-minute crash out (thelemmy.club)
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Dana Bash on CNN calling the BS out

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[–] 190 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

He doesn't even believe in germ theory of disease. It's hard to think of a less qualified person to be secretary of health.

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  • [–] 82 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    He has also said that the cause of AIDS is poppers, not HIV:
    https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-poppers

    Good fucking luck Americans.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    So prove us wrong RFK, and take an injection of HIV.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah, he can do that, and I'll take poppers. The first one to contract AIDS will get $500,000 from Mr. Beast!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    In the early HIV days, despite the identification of the virus, a clown at NIH destroyed his entire lab and reputation insisting HIV1 was not the cause, for years. I forgot his name because it should be forgotten.

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  • [–] 47 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    He was hired to take revenge on the medical industry because Covid embarrassed Trump and probably caused him to lose the election.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I was so worried that covid would be the ultimate excuse for him to rally people over his failing policies and crashing economy (we were heading to depression / crash before covid!) Then he fucked up the easiest handout of public good and caused millions to needlessly die.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 weeks ago

    Then he fucked up the easiest handout of public good and caused millions to needlessly die.

    Well you see he thought people in "blue cities" would be the ones to die and was 100% ok with that.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Which is crazy because for any sane president, covid amounted to serving up the election on a silver platter.

    "Follow the guidance of the scientists and we'll all get through this together." would have gotten him north of 65% of the total votes, and probably near the Reagan/Mondale level of electoral college victory.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Wait if he doesn't believe in germ theory, what the other fuck theory is there to believe in? Don't tell me he's a bloody miasmatist?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago

    I think that he believes that people get sick because of [ insert alternative medicine here ], and then the microbes follow. So basically he inverts the arrow of causality, because as the interviewer points out, he is not a scientist.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (2 children)

    He can believe or not believe however the fuck much he wants. I still don't know why "belief" is used so interchangeably with understanding, by basically everyone. When this angonizing hemorrhoid says "I don't believe in germ theory" what he really is saying is "I don't understand germ theory". Germs are there whether he believes or not.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    They're not using the word believe as in having a religious belief. Their using it in the very common, normal usage in which saying "I don't believe X" is synonymous with saying "I don't believe in the accuracy of X."

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Which, when faced with an absolute mountain of evidence, is still tantamount to "I don't believe it". You can say "I don't think that's accurate" but when the entire community of people responsible for checking accuracy tells you that it is accurate, that's not disbelief, that's denial in clown shoes.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    I'm not saying they're not idiots, but very few people if any can be said to understand most medical realities other than the most simple completely. There are plenty of people in the world that don't understand germ theory who don't say that they don't believe it.

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