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The amount of people who RFK has already murdered is intense but looking back RFK will be seen as one of the key figures of the final, utter collapse of the social safety net in the US. He is going to be responsible for tens of thousands of deaths if not hundreds of thousands. This is not hyperbole.
Hey but whatever, glad centrists shut down any prospect of progressive change in healthcare, I am sure we will just be able to move back to a moderate position after all this blows over and everything will work out!
His legacy will be the American Memgele.
The US has progressive healthcare in several states. California for one has had a system comparable to the Netherlands since Obama. Furthermore, saying that this could have been stopped by a federal system is wrong simply because RFK has the power to kill federal programs.
The problem here is a federal vs states rights issue. I personally would rather not have a federal system because the next administration after would gut it. State managed is much better for system resilience. West coast states have already responded to CDC shutdown for example.
Also centrists aren't blocking the UHC or single payer.
The CDC flip-flop masking during COVID probably killed thousands of people all by itself. RFK has actively undermined the credibility of federal health resources to a point where rational intelligent people are rightly ignoring them. It will absolutely kill millions over the years it takes to recover (assuming that we even start recovering).
Covid was a novel virus they were mostly doing their best wrt public policy. It’s not at all comparable to what’s going on now, reversing decades of proven science progress.
Yes, that is the observation that I am making.
His goal was to get a bunch of idiots to not vaccinate their kids, so... Success
Doctors I trust more than Doctor Oz, Doctor Phil, or RFK Jr.
Doc Brown
Doc Gooden
Doc Holiday
Doc Hollywood
Doc Johnson
Doc McStuffins
Doctor Bombay
Doctor Bronner
Doctor Claw
Doctor Demento
Doctor Detroit
Doctor Dirty
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Doofenshmirtz aka Dr. D or just “Doof”
Doctor Doom
Doctor Evil
Doctor Feelgood
Doctor Frankenstein
Doctor Girlfriend
Doctor Hannibal Lecter
Doctor Horrible
Doctor Gregory House
Doctor Jekyll
Doctor Kevorkian
Doctor Kildare
Doctor Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy
Doctor Martens
Doctor Moreau
Doctor Nick
Doctor Otto Octavius
Doctor Pepper
Doctor Scholl's
Doctor Orin Scrivello
Doctor Seuss
Doctor Spaceman
Doctor Spock
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strangelove
Doctor Who
Doctor Zaius
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zoidberg
Dr. Dre
Dr. Enuf
Dr. J (Julius Erving)
Dr. Octogonapus (DOCTOROCTAGONAPUSBLURRR)
Dr. Tedros
Dr. Tran
Rug Doctor
Spin Doctors
The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
Even Nurse Ratchet
Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah, ting-tang, walla-walla-bing-bang
Every single time I thought “Oh what about Doctor.. oh it’s there!” Excellent list and plus a billion for Dr Tran alone.
THANKS! I do have some that have not been added YET.
CPT "Trapper" John Francis Xavier McIntyre
CPT Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Doctor Amy Farrah Fowler
Doctor Dick Solomon
Doctor Douglas "Doogie" Howser
Doctor Drake Ramoray ("Days of Our Lives")
Doctor Frasier Winslow Crane
Doctor Galen "Doc" Adams
Doctor Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable
Doctor John Becker
Doctor John Francis Xavier 'Trapper' McIntyre
Doctor Johnny Fever
Doctor Mantis Toboggan
Doctor Kelso?
Doctor Marcus Welby
Doctor Michaela "Mike" Quinn
Doctor Mrs. The Monarch
Doctor Nick?
Doctor No?
Doctor Princess?
Doctor R. Quincy
Doctor Simi
Doctor Teeth
Doctor Theopolis
Doctor Watson
Doctor Zachary Smith
Doctor Beverly Crusher
Doctor Frasier Crane
Doctor Hubert J. Farnsworth
Doctor John "J.D." Dorian
Doctor Niles Crane
Doctor Richard Kimble
Leonard Leakey Hofstadter Ph.D.
Mary Margaret Albright
Sheldon Lee Cooper B.S., M.S., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D.
Doc(k) Ellis pitched a no-hitter on acid
Dr. Hook
Dr. Julius Hibbert
Hey Neil Patrick Harris is on this list twice.
Neil Patrick Harris
He's got range.
Doc McStuffins Doctor Temperance “Bones” Brennan
Doctor Pimple Popper
How did I forget Doctor Pimple Popper? THANKS!
Dr Hook and any member of the medical show.
Kelsey Grammer is a trump dick sucking chud. Fuck that POS.
That's why I do a bit of homework on each name before I add it.
I have gotten some flak from Dr. Tran.
There's a controversy for Dr. Tran? Cultural appropriation or something? I'm asking genuinely, I've never heard of an issue.
Basically, you can't please everyone.
Some people don't like him, not enough to take him off the list.
It could have just been Russian bots on Reddit. Russia doesn't like me.
Russia doesn't like me.
Then you're living your life right.
Dr. Worm?
He's not a real doctor. but he is a real worm. He is an actual worm.
Dr. No?
Valentino Rossi, aka The Doctor.
Both Nurse Ratchet and her inspo Nurse Ratched
Oh, the guy who has no formal training in health or science is bad at his job that requires knowledge of those?
Formal training in health and science would be good, but even more important is to listen to the experts who are world leaders in those things.
Agreed, he lacks that skill too.
That's right, boo! Boo this man!
This one time, hoping for the viruses to win.
These guys have the best health care available to them, and they will take it regardless of what they're saying.
Pretty sure anyone who took AP Bio in highschool could have made a solid case for this, but kudos to the Lancet for putting it in print.
Most people who made it to fifth grade could see how pathetically unscientific and idiotic this fuck is
I can’t wait to hear Trump try to insult and smear a publication he’s never even heard of. That will actually probably be his angle. “The Lancet? Who’s even heard of them. Their ratings are terrible.”
His hubris is the only interesting thing about him.
Of all the people I know, the ones who are doctors hate RFK Jr. most passionately.
The Lancet also published the Wakefield paper and refused to retract it for 12 years. Not the best journal to be throwing bricks.
At the same time, an entire decade has passed since then. The hope would be that they became better in the intervening time.
Edit: After looking them up, apparently not so much. One of their more recent controversies was in 2022, where they published unsubstantiated misinformation around COVID, suggesting it came from an independent US-funded lab.
The Lancet is a fucking joke. Editors are typical of cronies the MD community loves to build up. Most of their manuscripts have lists of "authors" who never even read the paper.
The Lancet also published a glowing review of one of Mehmet Oz's books.
MDs went insane during Covid, some claiming extraterrestrial origins.
I’ve been expecting these newsisms to die for like 10 years now. It’s begun to infect my own speech. Blast, slam, it feels like I’m reading headlines written for attention addled children. RFK is definitely going to kill millions, but all I can think about is this ridiculous verbiage.
These kinds of headlines don't attract nor satisfy ADHD people any better than normal people, it is just lazy headline writing.
RFK is definitely going to kill millions
No, RFK will not kill millions. Millions choosing to listen to that idiot will kill millions.
No, I'm not going to take medical advice from Kid Rock, either.
I’m not sure what you mean. He’s the secretary of health and human services, not an influencer. He’s not suggesting people do anything, he’s steering and enforcing actions through agencies that he has sway over.
No, RFK will not kill millions. Millions choosing to listen to that idiot will kill millions.
So when the government ceases to subsidies vaccines for children how are you going to afford to get your kids vaccinated?
When the number of vaccinated people falls below the herd immunity point how are you going to afford to be treated for viral infections that will sweep through the population, that you'll have no idea are there because the CDC has been destroyed.
And when you and your loved ones get a particular cancer and you discover that RFK killed off the NIH grant to research and develop treatments, what will you do then?
Shit my mother died because they weren't accepting any more people into the RNA anti cancer treatment trial for her particular type of cancer (because of inadequate funding).
Pretty sure vaccination will have to take priority over sports team tickets.
Again, 70 million people voted for this and another 60 million didn't vote at all. It takes a nation to build a shit hole.
American scientists we stopped listening to you after social media became a thing.
And people started listening to MDs far too much. MDs are 36 month practical degrees, they are not scientists even though they act like they are.
A typical NIH funded scientist has a Bachelor's degree BS, a PhD taking 5-6 years, 5 years + post doctoral experience, the 5 years appointment before review to Associate. If they don't have at least 30 good peer reviewed papers, their career is over.
And they don't need to walk around with stethoscopes and scrubs to cosplay authority.
The entire profession is also captured by the pharmaceutical industry. MDs are trained to prescribe medicine. Which has its uses and I'm sure they mean well, don't get me wrong, but it's also very inadequate in treating the root cause of many diseases.