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As leaders at Centers for Disease Control quit after director’s firing, Kennedy stokes controversy with pet theories

In a week of chaos at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has continued to make questionable medical and health claims – and has been slammed for them by experts and lawmakers alike.

In recent days, Kennedy has been facing increasing calls for his resignation following the Trump administration’s firing of the CDC director, Susan Monarez, which in turn prompted four other top officials to quit the agency. The chaos across US health agencies also comes as Kennedy released a slew of controversial and contradictory rules surrounding Covid-19 vaccines.

On top of all this turmoil, Kennedy has also met with significant backlash for a handful of outlandish remarks and revelations, which have only fueled the controversy surrounding his leadership at the health department.

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[–] blueamigafan@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Unfortunately it won't some people just believe what their told and that's that. I once had an argument with a work colleague because they think COVID was a huge hoax, this person was in a coma for 6 MONTHS and still thinks it was fake

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Undeserved survivor

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ya know, if RFK Jr could just get all these people to die of preventable diseases, I might actually consider it a success.

They live in a completely different reality. One that is defined entirely by Fox, and Brietfart, and Thiel. They take whatever dribbles down to them as incontestable fact.

Nothing can or needs to be proven. If they say so, it's true.

This isn't politics, this is religion. They are operating on 100% blind faith.

[–] blueamigafan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I live in the UK but yeah people just read shit online and they just believe it. Because you can't just believe medical professionals from around the world, nope rando Facebooker number 6 is the only one who knows the truth...........sigh

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

My father read one random article that said that black plastic kitchen utensils were especially deadly, and tossed the whole bunch and replaced them with bamboo. (The bamboo ones are at least objectively superior, although they are made in China.) But the numerous times I told him to stop cooking on extremely high heat with Teflon coated pans because the outgassing was fucking poisonous? Nope, that didn’t sink in. Not one bit.

Also, apparently the article disparaging black plastic utensils was quickly debunked.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

he wants them to think like him, worms and all.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So...what do they think caused their coma?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

duh...transexuals.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

impressive, dint even know an "autism" vaccine was in the market.

[–] blueamigafan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I asked them this and they just waved it off as 'one of those things' I'm like what the actual fuck you can't just wave off a six month coma like it's nothing, plus the other 6 months that they had recovering and being given light duties at work.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

was that for covid? or something else? its well known comas has a propensity to cause brain damage as well. look at j peterson.