• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    Kennedy is a germ-theory denier who believes people can maintain their health not by relying on evidence-based medicine, such as vaccines, but by clean living and eating

    I fucking hate this timeline

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      Even if he believed that, why isn’t he calling for more regulation oversight for the FDA and stringent quality controls on the food production supply chain as a whole?

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        Clean living in his view just means focusing on “natural” things. Which means swimming and drinking shit water is safe, but anything “artificial” is dangerous. So he’s certainly not going to care about pathogens in the food supply, because he doesn’t believe they are dangerous.

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          he in fact believes pathogens in the food supply are necessary to build your immune system

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      This is all going to be covered by a snarky longform YouTube (or equivalent) documentary in 200 years.

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        keep me in the screenshot unless you want your subscriber base to know this guy from the past thinks you suck.

        also, we’re so sorry. not all of us, but some of us.