Stop calling everyone a “skeptic” and call them what they are: deniers. Anti-science, fact resistant deniers. Calling people germ-theory skeptics, or climate skeptics, or vaccine skeptics, and so on and so on, makes it sound like there’s an honest scientific debate going on
Exactly. Skepticism is about casting doubt on beliefs and dogmas, not outright rejecting facts. When it comes to germs and vaccines there’s scientific consensus on those matters. They’re as close to facts as you can get. But rejecting those you’re not a skeptic, you’re a denier. There’s no scientific debate on those topics, only a political debate on whether to reject science or not.
scientists are skeptics…
I never refuted that?
i’m adding, not disagreeing… guess i should’ve said, “yeah comrade, well put, scientists are the real skeptics 🤝”
but, for the record, i agree with your preceding comment.
i apologize for lack of clarity 🎩 🤏This comment is peak Lemmy 🤌
(I mean this in the best possible way)
I’m sorry but “Germ-theory sceptic” is damaging enough considering the last one should have died in the 1800’s.
I honest to God can’t believe how such fucking morons managed to get power. RFK jr. Would have been seen as a bigger crackpot than Alex Jones if he wasn’t RFK’s son.
He’ll be calling himself a ‘gravity-theory sceptic’ next and flinging himself off a building. It’s the only next logical step.
‘idiots’ is my preferred term. I’m in favor of calling stupid people out again. Too long has stupidity been condoned and even championed ‘He tells it like it is’.
They are morons and need to be called that unabashedly.
Stop calling everyone a “skeptic” and call them what they are:
deniersidiots.FTFY!
Oh, I thought they’d misspelt septic…
But first of all GERMS ARE NOT A THEORY
germ theory is a scientific theory
Germs and how they spread disease is a raw fact. Nerd. Jk ut no you don’t have to use the word theory for it
How can the onion ever hope to compete with reality
the onion can not keep up with this, because fiction has to be believable, unlike reality ;-)
I think their hidden agenda is actually to bankrupt The Onion.
Wtf did i just read? The US health secretary swimming in shit water???
Welcome to America era 2025!
Its sure to historical, one way or the other…
Did you have a stroke while typing that?
It will historical, just you wait
I forget a two letter word and you think I have a stroke?
I have typos like that all the time. So it’s fine.
They missed ‘be’
Its sure to be historical…
America era 2025 can have that effect.
In images shared on social media, Kennedy can be seen getting fully underwater, including his head, and then splashing around with several of his grandchildren. Kennedy, who does not have any background in medicine or science, was a long-time anti-vaccine advocate before President Trump appointed him to be health secretary. In a 2021 book, Kennedy indicated that he does not believe in germ theory, the fundamental concept that microscopic pathogens, such as those abundant in sewage, are the cause of disease.
Prions have the opportunity to do the funniest thing
Heroin will turned his brains to mush after parasites turned it into swiss cheese
Did the brain worm leave anything for the prions to replicate in or for the poor brain-eating amoeba?
I get sometimes going “I’ll roll the dice”
- Me: I’d like my steak medium rare
- Government: That could expose you to some health risks because it’s not cooked well done.
- Me: Yep, I’d rather enjoy a medium rare steak and take my chances.
What the fuck was the logic on this one though?!
- RFK: I want to swim in sewage
- Government: it’s a bad idea to swim in sewage
- RFK: I LOVE SEWAGE!!!
- Government: you are a Kennedy right? You all dont have a pool?
- RFK: worm in brain need poop, poop in water, yum yum poop
He’s replenishing his parasite load
It’s called osmosis, shit with shit.
I wonder how many people around the world are laughing at USA right now.
We all are!
And what is making him so bright fucking red?
Testosterone supplements?
Sunburn, maybe. Perhaps he’s a “sunscreen skeptic,” too.
Usually the people in charge of regimes like this are often sadistic hypocrites and absolutely know that what they spout is bullshit. RFK jr. here on the other hand, is apparently actually a fucking idiot.
Like most con men, RFK is using people’s ignorance of what odds mean. If the chance of getting sick from swimming in that water is only say one percent, he knows the odds are extremely good that he won’t individually get sick, and then he will palm this off as “evidence” that it’s all a big fuss over nothing. The park service might know maybe 100,000 people will swim in that water this season, so they’ll probably save about a thousand from getting sick by closing the place. Even if somebody who does get sick manages to get the attention of a news outlet, they can be scoffed at as an anomaly. “How do you even know the water was responsible? Where else have you been? You’re just looking for attention!”
This is how dumbasses are going to kill us all. “I grew up drinking milk straight from the cow and never got sick! Big government just wants to prevent you from unlocking the magic of drinking pus!”
They won’t kill us all, just the ones dumb enough to believe reverting to the pre-science era to reinforce political beliefs is a good idea.
“Germ-theory skeptic”
For real just call him a reality skeptic and be done with it.
I would plead for someone to show this man a microscope but I fear the conclusions he might draw.
I hope he gets sick and suffers
Maybe we can convince him to drink some of it
go go power Darwin!
With modern medicine, we have switched to survival of the richest.
Funny enough not even Steve Jobs level money can save you if you prefer alternative treatments over modern medicine. Of course despite your stupidity you end up stealing a liver that actually someone else deserves more because you are stinking rich but even that does not prevent the inevitable.
Money won’t do shit for you if you’re too delusional to believe in modern medicine lol
…maybe this problem will solve itself?
Worm or sickness? Who will be faster! MAKE YOUR BETS NOW!
I’m team bacteria on this one. C’mon little guys - do your thing!
I think Goauld can control their metabolism sufficiently to be immune
Our best chance is that he gets one of these diseases that is effectively treatable with a vaccine.
Thing is, even with that, he’d just take the vaccine and proceed to lie about it for profit. His father must be turning over in his grave.
Vaccines are for prevention, they don’t work as treatment.
Yeah, that’s true.
But I think we both know that if he caught something he’d still get it treated privately and lie about it publicly, lest his grift be endangered, but I’d love it if he got polio and had to try and keep it quiet.
Some vaccines actually can work as an effective treatment!
If he gets some insane new parasite from this what are the odds it kills the one driving his brain now and takes over with a more normal personality?
Its like season 5 of Dexter when they start just re-spinning the same more and more absurd plot lines.
Can’t tell if Dexter or Dexter’s lab…
I’m sure the fish oil will fix it
The first brain worm already died.
Of starvation.
Or they form a coalition to control various body parts.
Wouldn’t it be an absolute riot of a “leopards ate my face” situation if he ends up croaking because of this?
To clarify: I don’t wish any harm on his grandchildren, but this man’s level of willful ignorance and sheer recklessness makes it hard for me to sympathize with any negative outcome he may suffer personally.
It would.
You can’t control who your parents and grandparents are. Don’t wish harm to children.
Nobody is out for his kin, but RFK jr deserves to join his uncle and father.
Wow this is next level stupid, i really thought it was the onion. I’d say i’m even shocked at this demonstration of stupidity, but the fact his grand children are led into this is beyond sad.
What else can you expect from a guy that starved a brain worm to death.
the creek’s bacterial counts—particularly E. coli counts—were dangerously high all the time.
Sorry for those children.
They are probably fine
Him however…
