Angela Rasmussen has been a great bullshit-deflector during the pandemic, love what she's doing
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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He's one month away from starting to say that people's humors are unbalanced.
Hasn't he already said he doesn't believe in germ theory?
Is germ theory still a theory or is it germ fact now m?
In science parlance, a ‘theory’ is a consistent and well established model of the observed reality. Hence ‘relativity theory’, ‘quantum theory’, ‘Maxwell theory’, ‘evolution theory’ or ‘germ theory’.
Antiscience nuts love to use the different meaning of that word in non-scientific environments to create confusion and support their lies.
Thanks.
I want to stress that I don’t fall in to the latter and was curious of the science meaning.
It's a fact as much as gravity and evolution are facts.
Yes
“Women are no longer permitted to vote on account of hysteria”
he’ll say they’re red, blue, black, and green and Trump will be like “but I like purple” and he’ll make one purple instead
Portugal. The Man was onto something.
This is Trump we’re talking about, one of them will HAVE to be gold
The tackiest shade of gold. Washed, unpolished, plastic varnish-looking ass gold.
That's what your aura should look like.
WTAF is a "mitochondrial challenge"?
It's just pseudoscientific nonsense to signal to his idiot base that he's one of them.
Powerhouse of the prison cell!
Iirc, It means "proudly uneducated"
It’s what decides if you can be a Jedi.
I found this article helpful: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/mitochondrial-dysfunction-bit-fad
It's basically "they don't work good" but it's become a fad to blame all sorts of things on their dysfunction.
Mitochondria are the powerhouse of crunchy conspiracies.
Something that he just made up. Probably a thought implanted into his head from the worms that a wriggling around in there
No, it's real, but much like most of his other ideas it's something that wellness industry types blame on everything that isn't responsible for nearly as much as they claim, is actually pretty rare, can't be treated in the ways they suggest and definitely can't be diagnosed just by looking at you. Like "inflammation" or "toxins".
Yeah, I've never understood those "detox" diets or whatever. It seems like they're doing fasting w/ extra steps...
And that's generally how I interpret stuff that sounds like nonsense. I know just enough about mitochondria from a high school health class that I basically ruled out RFK's statements as nonsense. I know they essentially produce energy for the cell, and that doesn't sound like something that would be widespread, and if it was, it wouldn't be observable with a passing glance, and it's certainly not something that would be unique to "kids these days."
That said, if my doctor said something like that, I'd give it more attention and ask questions. RFK doesn't seem to know what he's talking about, but my doctor does.
Worms have mitochondria ; perhaps they are promoting theirs be used to supplement the primate hosts?
If the worms do the mental work, that saves some sugar for the monkeys. Sounds reasonable. I do not know why people are making fun of it. Worms are good; be one of us…
It causes you to either spontaneously combust or turn into an orange slime monster.
I hate making decisions.
You know, kids in airports are usually really stressed and tired.
May as well expand that to everyone.
Also being around a Kennedy in the context of air travel is like waking up in a bamboo forest and realizing you are a doctor named Jack.
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This has to be some reference I’m missing. Fuck it, these are my lottery numbers.
Now I’m about to be disappointed because this is a huge reference and I’m gonna have to share the jackpot with like 8 million people.
:p
Congratulations on your $10 win angry seal. Here’s your giant check.
fuck it, these are my lottery numbers
uh oh (Im pretty sure they're referencing the tv show Lost. Watch it if you don't mind shit endings, as it was pretty good other than that.)
It Lost me too 🙃
He is straight up chiropractor snake oil salesman levels of stupid and dishonest. The grifting chiropractors all talk about "inflammation" - all problems are related to inflammation, like how to conservatives "everything I don't like is woke" to the health grifters "everything I don't like is inflammation".
So just know if you see someone who isn't an MD talking about inflammation and I guess mitochondrial problems then just know they are either a massive idiot or trying to scam you.
BUT MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL AND THOSE KIDS HAVE LOW BATTERIES
A lot of the stuff he talks about like "inflammation" and "mitochondrial challenge" are like that - they're things that are real, but are also not responsible for nearly the variety of illness suggested, can't be treated in the means wellness industry types like to suggest, aren't as common as stated and can't be diagnosed just by looking at someone.
Oh, I thought we were just declaring things now, like mitochondrial challenges and bankruptcy.
Trying to use science to validate his argument, against the validity of science.
He played Mirochondria Eve and now thinks people are turning into mutants.
On the other hand, mitochondria are powering the worms that are eating RFKs brain.
Could they maybe work extra hard and speed shit up?
Hello, I'd appreciate an archive link. This is borderline, so I'm not going to remove it. Anyone posting an article where RFK jr said it would be great too.