• @[email protected]
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    1757 days ago

    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

        • TachyonTele
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          177 days ago

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

            • TachyonTele
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              116 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.

            • LousyCornMuffins
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              67 days ago

              You know I’m part of a club where we try to eat one of everything to maintain our dominant position in the food chain, but he makes us look like freaks. And not the fun kind of freaks.

    • Mister Neon
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      167 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        keep me in the screenshot unless you want your subscriber base to know this guy from the past thinks you suck.

        also, we’re so sorry. not all of us, but some of us.

    • @[email protected]
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      447 days ago

      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?

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

        • Pup Biru
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          127 days ago

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

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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        287 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    2007 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    1157 days ago

    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
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      897 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        47 days ago

        And, for that reason, about half the papers (depending on the field) published in Nature are wrong.

        • TachyonTele
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          97 days ago

          Because the journal is so highly respected, half the papers are wrong?

          What

          • @[email protected]
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            117 days ago

            I’m a researcher. Nature is good but it still has mistakes. Sometimes they are a tad sloppy but they are still far, far better than what you may know from popular science. In general, some mistakes are normal and expected because science works by finding and fixing mistakes, not by immediately discovering ultimate truth. This applies even in math.

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              37 days ago

              I can agree with that. And I’m sure it’s because letters on the forefront are published quickly without time to consider all the possible problems.

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          that sounds like the dumbest horseshit I’ve ever heard of, both because an educational journal is built on its reputation, and because even if it were true, you’d still be wrong to imply that’s a bad thing for a different reason: proving some other guy wrong is part of the process.

          let’s assume – even for a brief moment – you are, in fact, 100% correct with this claim.

          You’re almost definitely not, but hey, let’s assume.

          scientists are all about being right, so much so that they loathe their own frauds (watch some BobbyBroccoli documentaries if you don’t believe me), and they also take extreme pleasure in disproving each other. sometimes, good science is in trying to disprove what some other guy or some other team said because “I want to be right/I want that fucker I hate to be wrong (we’re all petty humans, even scientists)/I want us to understand the world better, and we need to know if this is in fact as they claim”. Peer review is ingrained in their doctrine, that’s what good science is. You think if someone, a person with enemies, competition, and friends alike, got their paper in one of the most prestigious educational journals in the world, someone, somewhere wouldn’t be going “nuh-uh! I bet I can prove otherwise!”? And at that point it’s two scholars betting their career dick to swing around that they’re right and the other guy’s wrong, unless of course peer review actually means that prestigious journals generally don’t publish horseshit.

          in short: your claim is not only wrong, it is… a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works as a concept, I feel? Maybe not always in practice – there’s always politics sticking their dick into the mix to muddy the waters – but that’s part of what these journals pay and charge for. Prestigious peers. To review papers and generally make sure that nothing they publish is outright bullshit.

          now, are they fair prices for knowledge that helps us all is another debate, but suffice to say: going “fuck you I’m gonna find out if you’re wrong” is literally part of the job.

          Are you just, like… not that bright? Or is this just a transient phase, a hard night for you?

          • @[email protected]
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            127 days ago

            the problem with this is you wrote an epic takedown. it took you so much more time and effort that the pigshit you replied to.

            this world isn’t fair.

            but you deserve more, you nailed it

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              it’s not about a takedown, really, I’m not trying to be mean (not especially hard, anyways), I just want to understand what Nature, or science as a whole, did to piss them off enough to make shit up about it. Or if they’re just having a bad day they oughta just say so.

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            17 days ago

            Anecdotal only, sorry. I’m sure it varies by field, and it’s more about letters than longer papers. There are probably fields where Nature is excellent, but I know that there is at least one where the odds of a letter to Nature being accurate a few years later is about 50%.

            • Dogiedog64
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              377 days ago

              Ok, so you got nothing, and you’re talking out of your ass. Great, thanks. Go outside.

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              but I know that there is at least one where the odds of a letter to Nature being accurate a few years later is about 50%.

              you know, there is a difference between “getting published in Nature” and “submitting your work to Nature”. It’s subtle, perhaps: one involves being published in the journal. For the world to see and scrutinize.

              I bet they get lots of letters that they do, indeed, find aren’t well substantiated enough to publish.

              Also, one field. Lmao.

              Also, please tell me why you made your first comment, I’m genuinely curious. Did you read about this somewhere? Where, if you recall?

        • @[email protected]
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          617 days ago

          I’m dying at the irony of claiming 50% of all Nature articles are wrong while also providing literally no evidence

        • @[email protected]
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          57 days ago

          tell me you have never read a Nature published piece, without saying you have never read a scientific paper

    • Skua
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      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

  • @[email protected]
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    136 days ago

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

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    “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.

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      15 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    367 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    127 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    66 days ago

    its called pseudoscience=alternative science, naturopathy, homeopathy. he regularly consumes methylene blue.

    • @[email protected]
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      There is legitimate research on the effects of ingesting methylene blue. Don’t confuse that with pseudoscience. There’s probably plenty of pseudoscience around it, but it’s not (at its core) naturopathy/homeopathy/voodoo.

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    597 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

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      417 days ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    336 days ago

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

    I wonder which ones they kept.

  • @[email protected]
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    487 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      257 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 days ago

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

    • frustrated_phagocytosis
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      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