yikes, dude is gonna be draining the four humors.
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Who's the barber here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ
What was only recently satire is an actual position.
They will kill you and your kids.
Hopefully not me, I follow medical science, although obviously herd wide health practices will suffer which may result in higher mortality for everyone, even those who follow medical science.
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I bet he doesn't wash his hands after using the bathroom. Also, does he not visit the dentist? He should stop getting his teeth cleaned/checked if he thinks germs don't cause disease.
Pete Hegseth bragged on TV that he had not washed his hands in 10 years, because "germs are not a real thing." These are stupid people.
To be fair, when he was young his parents put his swing too close to the wall.
These are stupid people.
And yet they were able to fully take over the United States government. Really says something about the movements and institutions opposing them.
Says more about the fragility of democracies. For other countries, the warning should be clear: do not fucking defund public education, do not restrict education.
Unfortunately, we keep electing people who defund education, because it's expensive, and then cry that people vote for morons who waste away tens or hundreds of billions of dollars...
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Fuckin Typhoid Mary. Can’t we exile him to an island for the rest of his life, too?
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The Horseman known as Pestilence.
A kind of Terry Pratchett, Good Omens version, absolutely. "We don't actually have to make new plagues, we just convince enough people that the natural plagues they've already got don't exist, or the causes aren't what they've been told, or that the treatments do greater harm than the disease. In fact, we don't even have to deceive that many. A handful of posts to alternative medicine, conspiracy, and mom's net forums, and human nature will do the rest."
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How is that even something I have to Read? Fuck these morons.
This guy is in charge of the CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL. Not only responsible for the health of the nearly 400M US Citizens, but really globally in many ways. And this failson thinks you can sweat away ebola with some fucking supplements... that he happens to peddle.
I love the term "failson". It's such an apt description for these grifting fuckups.
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This is all an attempt by the rich to reduce numbers of poor people. They need more people dying, so they’re going to pull out all the safety features we’ve built into our society to prolong life.
Less “reduce the number,” and more “make the poor more tractable.” The rich still need human carpet to walk on, they just need it to be uneducated, fecund, and desperate to get under their feet.
Also divided. A divided proletariat (class of wage earners) can make less of a fist against the elite.
This contradicts their insistence that children should have children to stop population decline
Right-wing politics has always been an incoherent ragbag of convenient positions insincerely held.
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To reduce the number of non-working poor people. Or “useless eaters” as the psychotic, billionaire class calls them.
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Which is short sighted as a healthy populace is what lead to the US economic growth in industry prior to it being redefined as being based entirely on stock market gambling vibes. A strong and healthy populace was a big part of the post WWII boom.
Short-sightedness is like their chief feature
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Is that why they’re trying to restrict birth control and sex education while saying people need to have more kids, so there will be fewer poor people?
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It is insane to think that he is endorsing a theory that was widely rejected even by Miasma guys in the 19th century.
The miasma advocates were wrong, but they still did many things that were beneficial. The first water treatment plants that provided the first safe drinking water were advocated for by miasma advocates, and the London sewer system, one that is still being used today was also built by them.
Terrain theory? They did jack shit. Just a bunch of crazy nuts who rejected both miasma and germ theory in the late 19th century.
To be fair, miasma theory made sense and was completely logical, before microscopes.
They knew about actual lethal gases, and ones that had different effects on the body. They knew there were gases they couldn't yet detect, as they were still discovering new ones. They knew rotting stuff produced all kind of gases and stenchs.
Hell, the theory is still pretty much valid for radon, though for reasons they couldn't have possibly imagined.
And at the same time, the idea that animals could get small enough to be invisible, and to invade the human body, was absurd.
It came as quite a surprise when the microscope was invented and every single drop of water turned out to be a whole ecosystem teeming with life, and we turned out to be precariously balanced colonies of microscopic cells, also inhabited by a whole bacterial ecosystem teeming with both friends and foes.
And then came viruses, which are downright absurd to the point that we're still figuring out where they fit in the tree of life, and whether they're alive or not.
And prions, which are the stuff of horror science fiction yet completely logical when you think about how proteins works, and how they might sometimes not.
Miasma theory wasn't correct, sure, but it was definitely simpler, and made much more sense.
Those imbalances are claimed to be caused by poor nutrition and exposure to environmental toxins and stressors.
So, like swimming in streams polluted with sewage?
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Doctors I trust more than Doctor Oz, Doctor Phil, Pete Hegseth, or RFK Jr.
Doc Brown
Doc Gooden
Doc Holiday
Doc Hollywood
Doc Johnson
Doc McStuffins
Doctor John Becker
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 Drake Ramoray ("Days of Our Lives")
Doctor Evil
Doctor Hubert J. Farnsworth
Doctor Feelgood
Doctor Frankenstein
Doctor Girlfriend
Doctor Hannibal Lecter
Doctor Horrible
Doctor Douglas "Doogie" Howser
Doctor Gregory House
Doctor Jekyll
Doctor Johnny Fever
Doctor Kevorkian
Doctor Kildare
Doctor Richard Kimble
Doctor Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy
Doctor Martens
Doctor Moreau
Doctor Nick
Doctor Otto Octavius
Doctor Pimple Popper
Doctor Scholl's
Doctor Orin Scrivello
Doctor Seuss
Doctor Zachary Smith
Doctor Spaceman
Doctor Spock
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strangelove
Doctor Teeth
Doctor Theopolis
Doctor Watson
Doctor Marcus Welby
Doctor Who
Doctor Zaius
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zoidberg
Dr. Dre
Dr. Enuf
Dr. Hook
Dr. J (Julius Erving)
Dr. Octogonapus (DOCTOROCTAGONAPUSBLURRR)
Dr. Otto Octavius
Dr. Pepper
Dr. Donald D. Rose
Dr. Tedros
Dr. Tran
Rug Doctor
Spin Doctors
The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
Even Nurse Ratchet
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So he'll eat a Listeria salad and an Ecoli burger, washed down with some Girardi river water and think it was his bodies imbalance that made him sick???
When he dies, I hope they do an autopsy of his body to see how many parasites and infections he had.
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These kinds of things are available to watch and honestly, with this current adminstration, they're incredibly interesting imo. If you care to watch the whole thing:
If you just want Bernie Sander's question it's the second star at about 24:00
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We truly live in the golden age of the moron.
Oh no, facts.
Surely this will be the undoing of JFK Jr.
Quite frustrating that the efforts of millions worldwide with cold evidence would be ignored and dismissed by one shortsighted charlatan. The world can only mock him for trying to screw his own citizens.
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Don't hold your hand (or god forbid, elbow) in front of your mouth when you sneeze, it's actually racoon penis slime coming out and that is totally fine.
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It’s absolutely true that we have too much focus on pharmaceutical solutions and not enough on general wellness and prevention. But wellness and prevention means exercise and vegetables, not protein bars and woo woo shit about balancing your internal landscape.
Fuck this grotesque man.
Debunking doesn’t matter in the US in 2026. Bullets do.
You mean environmental toxins like germs?
unquestionable
Can we not call it that? The beauty of science is that it can be questioned.
Eh, while it's nice to say that science is all about method and nothing is above being questioned, at a certain point there's so much evidence that it's insane to argue against them. Like, I'm fine saying more than just germs cause disease or that not all germs cause disease, but saying there are no germs that cause disease when we the mountains of evidence we currently have is insane. It's a lot like saying gravity doesn't exist. Like you can argue that maybe gravity is a niche case or a product of a particular frame of reference, but things still fall down. We know that, it's unquestionable.
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