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.
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.
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.
Yep, early on Trump said he was like a war time president because of covid. If he had kept that mentality and rallied to fight covid, he would have easily won that election.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
So prove us wrong RFK, and take an injection of HIV.
Yeah, he can do that, and I’ll take poppers. The first one to contract AIDS will get $500,000 from Mr. Beast!
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.
He was hired to take revenge on the medical industry because Covid embarrassed Trump and probably caused him to lose the election.
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.
Well you see he thought people in “blue cities” would be the ones to die and was 100% ok with that.
Yup. He was hired to take orders, not do good.
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.
Yep, early on Trump said he was like a war time president because of covid. If he had kept that mentality and rallied to fight covid, he would have easily won that election.
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?
he is a miasmatist…
bad choice with Trump…
well he’s clearly dead inside
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.
Flatearther
wormeater
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Relevant XKCD
That reminds me of Terrance Howard Math! The basics are so completely wrong that anything after it is already wrong.