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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not as concerned with this as I am with the fascism, because this will at least kill us indiscriminately

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

My friend, this is part of the fascism.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 2 days ago

Well at least we know which publication refused to capitulate to morons.

I wonder which ones they kept.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 199 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just when I'm about to retire, Medicare will only cover chiropractors and horse paste.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 69 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"You appear sickly. It's because one of your humors are imbalanced. Have some bleach in your veins and get some fresh air to reduce the miasma."

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried suntanning your asshole?

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Only if I can help Gwyneth Paltrow steam-clean her Gua Chakra.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aaaand thoughts and prayers!

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[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 171 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Kennedy is a germ-theory denier who believes people can maintain their health not by relying on evidence-based medicine, such as vaccines, but by clean living and eating

I fucking hate this timeline

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 89 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Clean eating, like park bear and whale carcasses!

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No wonder he got that brainworm.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He used to pop the eye balls out of birds heads and eat them raw

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)
  1. fucking why?
  2. how did you learn this abomination?
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

He's a sick bastard.

There's a three part Behind the Bastards on him that covers his childhood, young adult, and current craziness. I found part two the most interesting.

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[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Even if he believed that, why isn’t he calling for more regulation oversight for the FDA and stringent quality controls on the food production supply chain as a whole?

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 27 points 2 days ago

Because like everyone in Trump's government, he is there to gut, cripple, and undermine the public's trust in our institutions.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Clean living in his view just means focusing on "natural" things. Which means swimming and drinking shit water is safe, but anything "artificial" is dangerous. So he's certainly not going to care about pathogens in the food supply, because he doesn't believe they are dangerous.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 11 points 2 days ago

he in fact believes pathogens in the food supply are necessary to build your immune system

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[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is all going to be covered by a snarky longform YouTube (or equivalent) documentary in 200 years.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 22 points 2 days ago

"Why do we live in an underground bunker - 21st history channel"

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[–] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 112 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t Nature and its subject-specific varieties considered some of the most reputable and prestigious scientific publications?

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 89 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Yeah, getting published in Nature is a career gold star achievement. They’re very high impact (meaning many other scientific papers cite their articles).

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 27 points 2 days ago

If we go by impact factor (a measure of how often the articles a journal publishes are cited elsewhere), various Nature publications are six of the top ten journals in the world and Nature itself is 15th

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago

Yes. It's pretty much the definition of a high quality peer-reviewed journal.

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago

The US is like a reality tv show, except it's less believable.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Did they just hear the term junk science and went "no u"?

This administration is so fucking frustrating, but it seems they want to remove any meaning of that word, the same way they always do.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Did they just hear the term junk science and went "no u"?

That's EXACTLY what they did, yeah. Just like when they appropriated "fake news" which was originally a term describing their own disinformation.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Which also nicely mirrors the Nazis calling everybody that contradicts them Lügenpresse.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

That's not new though, Stalin and Hitler both played the fake news game.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah, John Stossel was using it back in the '90s to deny climate change. The term "junk science" has always been used as an excuse to ignore reality.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"precious tax payers money shouldn't go to unused subscriptions to junk science"

Ahh yes, but it should be used to make the incomprehensibly wealthy, even more wealthy. I really wish there was a god.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There must be (or ought to be) a term for this type of conspiracy that requires practically all experienced professionals in a given field to be complicit.

You could convince me that one or even a group of researchers were acting with nefarious intent, but everyone? It's just an absurdity.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's pretty much the definition of the "grand conspiracy theory". It requires the combined effort of thousands of people across hundreds of countries. It's insanity.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Very much like a Protocols of the Elders of Zion theme, but with educated scientists rather than jews

It's just a repeat of that AIDS conspiracy group that rejected evidence on HIV and made their own "science" mag which folded when everyone died of AIDS

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

So the modern approach to healthcare is back to leeches and blood letting huh. Did not have that on my 2025 bingo card but in retrospect I really should have.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn, what a bad ~~week~~ ~~month~~ ~~decade~~ century for US healthcare!

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Was there a good ~~week~~ ~~month~~ ~~decade~~ century for US healthcare?

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

They're probably already in the data set of whichever LLM they use to write their policy documents anyway, so sure, fine. 🙄

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Everybody knows that real science is peerless.

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