Literal medieval doctor levels of medical understanding.
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Quite frustrating that the efforts of millions worldwide with cold evidence would be ignored and dismissed by one shortsighted charlatan. The world can only mock him for trying to screw his own citizens.
Debunking doesn’t matter in the US in 2026. Bullets do.
Oh no, facts.
Surely this will be the undoing of JFK Jr.
lol the earth is a battleground for forces we can neither observe nor comprehend, people are eating children and we are talking about a moron that denies germ theory
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???
Yes. This guy literally eats roadkill. And brags about it.
Technically, if the roadkill is fresh, there's nothing wrong with eating it.
We truly live in the golden age of the moron.
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'd like to challenge him to prove it. Ebola is a messy way to go so I wouldn't want to be in the same room, but I guess that's what cameras are for.
I love the term "failson". It's such an apt description for these grifting fuckups.
Except for the way they keep succeeding 😐
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.
To be fair, miasma theory made sense and was completely logical, before microscopes.
They knew about actual lethal gases, and ones that had different effects on the body. They knew there were gases they couldn't yet detect, as they were still discovering new ones. They knew rotting stuff produced all kind of gases and stenchs.
Hell, the theory is still pretty much valid for radon, though for reasons they couldn't have possibly imagined.
And at the same time, the idea that animals could get small enough to be invisible, and to invade the human body, was absurd.
It came as quite a surprise when the microscope was invented and every single drop of water turned out to be a whole ecosystem teeming with life, and we turned out to be precariously balanced colonies of microscopic cells, also inhabited by a whole bacterial ecosystem teeming with both friends and foes.
And then came viruses, which are downright absurd to the point that we're still figuring out where they fit in the tree of life, and whether they're alive or not.
And prions, which are the stuff of horror science fiction yet completely logical when you think about how proteins works, and how they might sometimes not.
Miasma theory wasn't correct, sure, but it was definitely simpler, and made much more sense.
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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When he dies, I hope they do an autopsy of his body to see how many parasites and infections he had.
I think he'll explode into bugs like the oogie-boogie man.
The Horseman known as Pestilence.
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.
There’s also already a horseman for War. Who would be Death and Famine I wonder?
Famine is Brooke Rollins, secretary of department of agriculture.
Famine, whoever is in charge of cutting funds for humanitarian projects the USA were supporting and threatening millions of lives.
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 people that believe that if you say something with enough arrogance, it makes it true.
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.
The rules mistakenly assumed that politicians would always be intelligent people with the interests of the nation in mind.
They didn't account for people voting for moronic crooks who openly intended to pillage and rape the nation for their own profit.
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...
Fuckin Typhoid Mary. Can’t we exile him to an island for the rest of his life, too?
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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?
Or having brain worms?
Or getting whale carcass juice on you?
Or handling a dead bear?
Or cutting off a dead raccoon's dick?
This guy is trying so hard to be patient zero in the next plague, and he's not even trying to hide it.
like inhaling Trumps dookie stank
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You mean environmental toxins like germs?
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.
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.
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
This contradicts their insistence that children should have children to stop population decline
Right-wing politics has always been an incoherent ragbag of momentarily convenient positions, insincerely held.
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These kinds of things are available to watch and honestly, with this current adminstration, they're incredibly interesting imo. If you care to watch the whole thing:
If you just want Bernie Sander's question it's the second star at about 24:00
This is what I scrolled down for. Thank you.
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