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In a sane world, you should be able to prosecute RFK for making or repeating lies. They would claim a defence that they were misinformed and not an expert in the field.
The precidence that needs to be set is that if you are appointed to a position of responsibility you are then automatically considered qualified in that field for the purpose of law.
Its either that, or break out the guillotines
Don't bother me with facts, my mind's made up. --RFK,Jr.
And frankly, all of MAGA, about EVERYTHING.
:O
Doesn’t matter what studies say. The US is controlled by rumors and fake news now.
The only thing that matters to the people in charge is constant misinformation and distrust.
It actually helps their cause that there is a new study now - according to their disinformation machine this is just another “opinion” and proves their point.
Cancer? Just slap some beef tallow on that bad boy and you'll be right as rain. See? Even Dr. Oz agrees!
The lie makes its way around the world before the truth has even put its shoes on. Lies are easy to make up. It takes ages to do studies and data reviews to gather evidence. It's sad that this needed to be done to counter bullshit. The MMR vaccine lies still won't go away after decades of disproving.
Yeah, people have to understand that right-wing politics considers science merely a tool to accumulate wealth and power. Thus right-wingers will not acknowledge that science pursues scientific truth, but rather insist that science that contradicts them must be a challenge to their interests that aims to embolden their political opponents and thus must be expunged.
"One last thing," said Beatty. "At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch. What do the books say, he wonders. Oh, to scratch that itch, eh? Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They're about nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they're fiction. And if they're nonfiction, it's worse, one professor calling another an idiot, one philosopher screaming down another's gullet. All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost."
Captain Beattys all.
Think about what the resources going into this distraction could have investigated instead of doing this.
At the very least I hope all the promotion coming from these republican clowns supporting the filthy supplement industry will lead to more rigorous critical scientific inquiry into the garbage snake oil insanity that this industry has become. It's no different than the unregulated advertising industry of the early 1900s where companies could say legally say their food products could cure illness and enhance performance.
They defunded promising cancer cure research for this.
No shit.
No fucking shit.
Goddamn I hate this fucking regime
It's a shame how this wretched regime has completely destroyed even such important organizations as the CDC. I recently talked about this with some old friends: All of them are specialists or senior physicians in hospitals in Switzerland, Germany, and Spain—and they all agreed: The CDC can no longer be taken seriously, as virtually all competent medical professionals have been dismissed. This is a huge loss that is costing many lives, and not just in the US.
And why all this? Just because of the blatant idiocy of this corrupt regime, which acts beyond all reason. Their actions are truly a crime against the whole world.
Studies? STUDIES?! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING STUDIES!!
It was paid for by special interests or some shit
It never did, RFK just used his position to supercharge the myth and lower share prices long enough for Kimberly-Clark to acquire Kenvue.
Who has shares or ownership of Kimberly-Clark so that it helps RFK, Trump, or someone they know? And why didn't they shut up about the autism thing after Nov so that the stock price would increase?
Well duh.
(not against the post or research, just against people propagating the misinformation)
Did anyone believe it was ever linked to autism? I saw it as Trump buying a shitload of Tylenol shares and then doing his political dystopic dance to manipulate the stock market (yet again) and rake in more cash.
In your mind he bought Tylenol shares, then tanked the value of those shares, then profit? I think in this case what is more likely is because RFK claimed he would find the cause for autism they had to find a scape goat.
Kimberly-Clark acquired Tylenol's parent company (Kenvue) during its dip in value around November last year:
I was suspicious Kimberly-Clark could have some ownership that meant someone Trump knew got money. But I never saw that reported and Trump hasn't shut up.
So I think it is just they wanted an autism scapegoat politically like you say
I'm sure you are correct. I was being a bit flippant but two (or more) things can be right at the same time.
For sure they can. I'm sure there was some other way he could take advantage of it. Sounds like one of RFKs friends did.
What about all the memes we made? Don't they count for anything?
They have really caused a bit of a headache, haven't they
No shit, Sherlock!
It was already disproven the second it was claimed, by being made up with no credible data or research
We know what is linked to autism. It's pollution. Fossil fuel exhaust is a big contributor. What does the Trump regime do? Promote fossil fuels. Kids and autism were never the concern.
This is also what the old studies said
Harmless painkiller doesn't cause autism as expected. Wow! It's a shame that this has to be news. Next week "Fruit consumed during pregnancy doesn't cause autism"
Tylenol is linked to liver damage. Happened to my friend.
Ya, no shit.
Any substance taken beyond its safe dosage is harmful, even water.
She was taking the safe dosage, she was a paralegal.
Yeah if you take a metric fuck ton of it.
If you take the recommended dose then you're fine
Well, do not mix with alcohol either.
And what has that to do with the risk of autism in someone's kids?
Idk maybe depending on liver health, the fetus and future child may have issues 🤷♂️
How about Ibuprofen? That is the one the doctors tell women to avoid when pregnant.
Ibuprofen isn’t a brand name so they won’t be able to manipulate the stock market.
If autism has increased over the past 70 years, a more likely culprit would be higher sugar consumption.
In many ways sugar acts as alcohol in our metabolism, and we know with certainty that excessive alcohol during pregnancy is a significant risk factor for the mental health of babies.
The rate of autism diagnosis is a product of the actual rate of occurrence of autism times the probability of diagnosis if someone has it. The probability of diagnosis (whether correct, false positive or false negative) depends on professionals' and clients' awareness of the condition. That has changed significantly over those 70 years, and because of that, it's very hard to assess whether the prevalence of the underlying condition has changed or not. It's also devilishly hard to determine whether ASD is being over-diagnosed now, or was massively under-diagnosed before.
And sugar doesn't really act like alcohol (for example, all the systemic damage caused by acetaldehyde when alcohol is metabolized doesn't happen with sugar), and fetal alcohol syndrome presents very differently than ASD.
and because of that, it’s very hard to assess whether the prevalence of the underlying condition has changed or not.
Yes, and that's the reason I wrote "if", because IDK if it is actually the case although it may seem so.
From the presentation "sugar is a poison" by Robert Lustig he demonstrates ways sugar is similar to alcohol, and also has a level of dependency when abused that is similar although weaker than alcohol.
Just because there are differences doesn't mean there aren't also similarities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
AFAIK it is much wider accepted today that sugar is harmful than it was in 2001 when he first made the presentation.
I have never seen anything to refute what Lustig suggested almost 25 years ago.
Child care professionals have widely warned against sugar as a behavior altering substance for children, warning it can make children behave like they have ADHD. These warnings have existed at least since the 70's that I know of, but AFAIK without any studies to either confirm or deny these claims. Despite the suspicion has existed for more than half a century now.
So we do have warnings from professionals that have indications it could be harmful during pregnancy too.
I have no idea why I'm downvoted for suggesting that?
I'm not claiming it is factually a problem during pregnancy, I'm just pointing out something that could be an issue, and AFAIK not very well researched.
If sugar is as harmful as many suggest, it is quite important knowledge we should have.
Everything in good measure is a good rule of thumb, but we don't really know what a good measure of sugar is.
But we do know it is harmful, and at a minimum can cause diabetes and heart disease.
But AFAIK we don't even have safety margins on sugar to avoid even those very widespread and well known problems.