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Alligators looking pretty darn close to how they did millions of years ago is a nice indicator for survival of the fittest. I think fittest probably involves social paradigms with humans, and being recognized as fit might present an interesting intellectual challenge where you are more likely to find yourself surrounded by sycophants who soonest reenforce your own bias. Perhaps even, you’re looking at decades of that toxin in its effects. But, I am not a researcher on this field so I digress.

But he still gets to keep his job, because Congress won't remove him

one shortsighted charlatan

Way more than just one

Yes. This guy literally eats roadkill. And brags about it.

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.

people are eating children

I'm sorry, what's up?

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 work, and how easily they might sometimes not.

Miasma theory wasn't correct, sure, but it was definitely simpler, and made much more sense than the mess reality turned out to be.

I think he'll explode into bugs like the oogie-boogie man.

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.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47201923

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."

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

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.