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)
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
I’m sorry but “Germ-theory sceptic” is damaging enough considering the last one should have died in the 1800’s.
He’ll be calling himself a ‘gravity-theory sceptic’ next and flinging himself off a building. It’s the only next logical step.
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.
Oh, I thought they’d misspelt septic…
Stop calling everyone a “skeptic” and call them what they are:
deniersidiots.FTFY!
‘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.
“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’m team bacteria on this one. C’mon little guys - do your thing!
I think Goauld can control their metabolism sufficiently to be immune
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
Or they form a coalition to control various body parts.
The first brain worm already died.
Of starvation.
Wtf did i just read? The US health secretary swimming in shit water???
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?
Welcome to America era 2025!
Its sure to historical, one way or the other…
Did you have a stroke while typing that?
They missed ‘be’
Its sure to be historical…
America era 2025 can have that effect.
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.
He’s replenishing his parasite load
It’s called osmosis, shit with shit.
And what is making him so bright fucking red?
Testosterone supplements?
Sunburn, maybe. Perhaps he’s a “sunscreen skeptic,” too.
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
I wonder how many people around the world are laughing at USA right now.
We all are!
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.
The water is now less clean for having him in it
During similar conditions in the past it has had around 100x the EPA standard of bacterial colonies.
And he’s hypocritical enough that I bet he started an antibiotic cocktail before he went there.
Hope natural selection does its thing.
To him: yes. To his grandkids: no. They don’t deserve to get sick and possibly die just because their grandpa is an idiot.
He probably doesn’t believe in evolution
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…
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.
Stuff like this isn’t a problem, until it is.
What was in that sewage? Anybody with typhoid? Diphtheria? Probably not because vaccination and treatment is still over herd immunity levels. Then, of course, there were the kids who used to get vaccinated for Polio naturally by exposure to untreated sewage, and us rich countries having terrible cases of polio survival in older people because we didn’t bathe in toilet outflows.
Thing is, it’s a numbers game. The first hundred people might not get sick, immediately, but if you form two lines, one bathing in the sewage pool and the other bathing in a treated sanitary pool, run 100 people a day through each one and track them for two weeks, you’ll see the differences. That’s why we have scientific publications, so we can read about these kinds of past experiments and don’t have to repeat them.
*used to have
Yes, but… have you considered that no one who listens to this dispshit cares about all that? That’s the issue at hand. Everyone with common sense knows this is an idiotic publicity stunt.
Just like DeSantis & Co. getting their COVID jabs on camera, sitting around for 5 minutes and then saying “see: I’m fine, it’s not harmful.”
Bashing low flow shower heads, engine stop-start at red-lights, and everything they hear anyone bitching about - this is the party of “give the people what they want!”
What I want to know is: besides John McAfee, who wants to bathe in poo?
Can someone arrest him for child endangerment?
Lol you can’t arrest a rich person, that’s not how this works
If ever someone truly deserved a Herman Cain award, it’s this man right here!
I wonder why he says we should fortify our immune system if he doesn’t think germs cause diseases? Like, what is the immune system doing making cells that can eat bacteria?
