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RFK Jr continues to make dubious health claims as CDC roils under his leadership
(www.theguardian.com)
This guy doesn't seem like a good person
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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I used to think he was just a broken-clock idiot with good intentions, now I think he's insane and has no idea wtf he wants or is doing.
Honestly I believe he’s still on the drugs
It’s all the roadkill bear meat
heroin and his obssesion with wild animal carcass has damage his brain for decades.
Anti-vaxxers are gonna anti-vax.
Thing is, the denialist mindset doesn't tend to limit itself to one thing. In for a penny, in for a pound. The crazy tends to come in clusters.
But he promised he wouldn’t!!
That is a disqualifying attribute with this administration
His skin also looks like he's been drinking sewage for a decade.
His voice also sounds the same.
plural, for his vermiform masters.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, has continued to make questionable medical and health claims
No
He doesn't make questionable claims, he's spouting outright fairytale bullshit that usually obviously horse shit, or if not, is already disproven at best
Stop phrasing as if what the guy says has even a remote chance of being true, because it isn't
Thank you.
All it'll take is one outbreak that goes out of control.
Edit: I meant without a competent CDC to hold the line.
Unfortunately it won't some people just believe what their told and that's that. I once had an argument with a work colleague because they think COVID was a huge hoax, this person was in a coma for 6 MONTHS and still thinks it was fake
Undeserved survivor
Ya know, if RFK Jr could just get all these people to die of preventable diseases, I might actually consider it a success.
They live in a completely different reality. One that is defined entirely by Fox, and Brietfart, and Thiel. They take whatever dribbles down to them as incontestable fact.
Nothing can or needs to be proven. If they say so, it's true.
This isn't politics, this is religion. They are operating on 100% blind faith.
I live in the UK but yeah people just read shit online and they just believe it. Because you can't just believe medical professionals from around the world, nope rando Facebooker number 6 is the only one who knows the truth...........sigh
My father read one random article that said that black plastic kitchen utensils were especially deadly, and tossed the whole bunch and replaced them with bamboo. (The bamboo ones are at least objectively superior, although they are made in China.) But the numerous times I told him to stop cooking on extremely high heat with Teflon coated pans because the outgassing was fucking poisonous? Nope, that didn’t sink in. Not one bit.
Also, apparently the article disparaging black plastic utensils was quickly debunked.
he wants them to think like him, worms and all.
So...what do they think caused their coma?
duh...transexuals.
I asked them this and they just waved it off as 'one of those things' I'm like what the actual fuck you can't just wave off a six month coma like it's nothing, plus the other 6 months that they had recovering and being given light duties at work.
The autism vaccine?
impressive, dint even know an "autism" vaccine was in the market.
was that for covid? or something else? its well known comas has a propensity to cause brain damage as well. look at j peterson.
What's everyone complaining about? Bobby Brainworm doesn't even need an e-meter, he can just scan people in a public setting and tell that children are ~~not clear of engrams~~ "overburdened with mitochondrial challenges"!
he think hes a michlorian.
Serious deep studies need to be done on any of the claims he makes that don’t have adequate study. I know the autism thing already has a bunch, along with retractions.
But I suspect other claims have been deemed not easy enough to study, or worth more study. And some will require long timelines for the study to make sense.
I shouldn’t be hearing reporting on RFK’s BS that can’t easily share overwhelming evidence to refute his claims.
As long as it is maga getting their medical advice from this clown I am fine with this.
Well, if a dumbass like Bobby Brainworms just makes claims of something and doesn't have any evidence for those claims, then the burden of proof is on him.
It doesn't fall on others to disprove the claims of idiots who have no relevant education, no relevant skills and no expertise.
Edit: I mean, don't get me wrong - I understand what you are going for here, but the denialists need to know that this isn't how science works - falling for their gambits should not be a thing and everyone should point out what they are doing, at all times.
That’s fair. I just wish it was all more concrete.
And I think overall, we lack health and nutrition studies that are unambiguously not backed by food companies. And the history of nonsense studies and lack of studies around nutrition makes for such a messy discussion even among people who are normal not crazy people, but who just debate things as simple as fats vs carbs. I dunno.