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Dana Bash on CNN calling the BS out

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[–] varjen@lemmy.world 109 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 23 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

He was hired to take revenge on the medical industry because Covid embarrassed Trump and probably caused him to lose the election.

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

Yup. He was hired to take orders, not do good.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 7 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] dreamy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So prove us wrong RFK, and take an injection of HIV.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, he can do that, and I'll take poppers. The first one to contract AIDS will get $500,000 from Mr. Beast!

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago

That reminds me of Terrance Howard Math! The basics are so completely wrong that anything after it is already wrong.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 8 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app 6 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] munsking@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

he is a miasmatist...

[–] Seldon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

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.