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The brain worm commands it
The rest of the world should forbid all travels in and out of the US. And bring back lazarettos for those that must travel there.
The future of US healthcare looks like this
pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons
Look, I’m not here to defend the pharmaceutical industry, but at least they’re fucking REGULATED.
Unlike, say, the supplement industry which he so loves… That’ll tell you: take these 50 expensive potions and you’ll get better, not the thing that has been rigorously tested & proven over generations.
FUCK IT! Why not also throw out all the work of Koch and Pasteur!
You know what they call “alternative medicine” that works?
Medicine.
I’m not surprised. Carl Sagan saw this coming in 1995
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
Chuck D made a song:
That is scarily accurate
Get your mmr and tdap boosters 💉
I am at a loss as to how we could have regressed like this. At a complete and absolute loss.
As a 90s kid I remember the zeitgeist of the time (and even in the early 2000s) that the world was ever in a forward march and we will never stop going forward…
Holy shit they were not just wrong, but how wrong was scary. I will also never forget how on the internet shortly after 9/11 (albeit those view points predate 9/11) made the whole clash of civilization between the rational and intelligent and scientific west and the barbaric Muslim world that is stuck in the 12th century or something.
They made the then scientific lead of the west a result of a core, rock solid trait of the west that was reached purely through discussion and debate and based only on facts. Meaning it cannot be done away with that quickly.
But barely in the past 15 years (maybe even less) view points that would be seen as an absolute joke became mainstream, and not only that, the same loonies are the ones in charge now. Ironically in the early covid-19 time many were acting all shocked that Muslim countries not only had lock downs and that there was no resistance to them… as if Muslims are in such denial of modern anything that they think they cannot be barred from being sick or something.
And then they claimed that the Muslims morons who DID defy lockdowns and became super spreaders were purely unique to the Islamic world. Never mind the fact that religious people of all stripes (Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians… my god the Christians! Christians Koreans were singlehandedly responsible for making covid-19 a problem in Korea!) Fucked up, they still acted like it was purely a Muslim problem.
I wonder how many of them now even realise just how fucking FAST the entire world order they claim is a deep intrinsic trait is falling apart.
I blame the rise of social media - especially the video version - for giving a voice to the idiots and letting their sheer high quantity distort facts with clickbaity and rage inducing headlines
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This may or may not be the darkest timeline (it’s pretty close)… but it’s 100% the stupidest.
I think you will enjoy this recent episode of the This Machine Kills podcast.
We discuss Quinn’s analysis of “new fusionism” or a mutant strain of neoliberalism that crystallized in the 1990s, which sought to ground and defend neoliberal policies through their own bastardization of biological sciences — cognitive, behavioral, evolutionary, genetic, and so on. They then used scientism to justify and propagate political ideas and economic models based on hardwired human nature and hierarchical differences between races, cultures, and intelligence. The fringes of the 1990s have now become the mainstream of the 2020s.
Fuck me. Except now they are anything BUT scientific. And if I remember correctly (and i have to rely on 20+ years old memories since none of those old forums were archived anywhere) many of the people posting probably had no idea where their own ideas came from, which would explain a lot.
They were certainly wrong about the “deep state” existing.
Back in the 80’s or 90’s there was this one show in Spanish “Erase Una Vez LA Vida”. You just have your kids watch that a few times and they will be experts in the human body. Including the knowledge of how viruses are always lurking around trying to fuck us all up:
It’s a french production, btw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time…_Life
They made a whole bunch of different series about different topics
Loved it as a kid. Still think about it from time to time
That’s cool I was wondering if it was in English too. I think it would be an interesting thing to show my kids.
It was sold all over the place. There’s probably an English language version floating around.
It was a thing in Germany as well :)
wow he is really going all out to sell his supplements huh
RFK JR is really into roids and methylene blue right now.
I’m sorry, where did this guy get his relevant PhD(s) again?
He probably thinks PhD means Pretty huge Dick. Which he does not have either.
Sounds like we’re going back to the “four humors:”
The “four humors” are a classical theory, developed by ancient Greek physicians like Hippocrates, that suggests human personality and health are determined by the balance of four bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. An excess or deficiency of these humors was believed to influence both temperament and susceptibility to illness.
This theory was influential in ancient and medieval medicine, influencing how people understood and treated illness and even personality. While no longer considered a scientifically valid theory of human health, it’s a significant part of the history of medicine and offers a glimpse into ancient philosophical and medical thinking.
Except now we are actually using a contemporary version of it to rule our health care system.
Now we’re at the core of it. These morons never believed in germ theory at all. Nevermind the fact that at this point you can actually look at germs in a microscope.
They don’t believe in things they don’t understand, and they don’t understand things they can’t see with their own caveman senses.
We crawled out of 30,000 years of trying and failing to start a civilization, we almost went extinct, we lost countless billions of lives to war, murder, famine, disease and hardships of a natural world that doesn’t want us to live. Just to get to this point where a handful of coked-up, mentally handicapped rich fucks can decide all those countless sacrifices were for nothing.
It genuinely boggles me that Americans are at all accepting of this. Where the FUCK are my countrymen who see how stupid and dangerous this is? We should all be storming HHS and dragging RFK and his unqualified goon squad out to the lawn. Seriously. I am not kidding. Modern medical knowledge is too valuable to let some unelected clown who has zero knowledge or training to just decide to roll the entire thing back because his other clowns sowed distrust among our stupidest.
If we don’t rise up and do something, I strongly feel you all deserve what the consequences will be.
Where was this kind of talk when your country destroyed countless democracies around the world? I never heard a peep from Americans regarding dismantling democracy in South America or in the Middle East or in Asia or in Eastern Europe.
The USA has always been a terrorist organization to the world that is not in their club, and now that the chickens have come home to roost, you are pickachu face surprised?
Nazies paraded in the streets of New York in the 1920s, ffs, this is not a new thing.
Okay, America bad, got it, very fresh take adds so much to the present conversation and context of current events. Point taken, nobody here will ever say anything again. We’re all bad and so very evil. You win.
You can also just expose someone to a pathogen and predict the outcome based on the pathogen. Like the doctor who proved that Helicobacter pylori causes stomach ulcers and cancer by taking a shot of broth laced with the bacteria and, predictably, got stomach ulcers, which he successfully treated with antibiotics.
In science a theory is not enforced, it’s proven. If he believes whatever his worm is thinking to be true, go to a lab and get evidences for it. It’s not the European middle age anymore.
go to a lab and get evidence
They’re here to dismantle our society, they don’t care.
Not yet…
The rest of the world will be fine like when mao had the birds shot or when USSR relied on Lysenko instead of Vavilov. The US…people are going to have to get ok with shitty living real fast. Ironically, this giant reduction in the ability to consume will likely be great for the average carbon footprint.
I’m so glad there’s an ocean between us for when the shooting starts… Not that the collapse of the US won’t have enormous geopolitical ramifications, most of them bad.
inb4 American refugees on mobility scooters are roaming our European streets and complaining about the lack of parking spots
