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I'd support raw milk being legal for consumers to purchase so long as the manufacturers of said raw milk could be held to account for harm caused to a consumer who purchased it under the belief that it was safe — likely, this would also mean that, if it isn't safe, the product containing raw milk must otherwise display explicit warnings. I think a person should be allowed to take take their own risks.
Stem cells? Does he know what party he's hitched his wagon to?
Oh, he knows. They took him on an airplane and made him eat food he had just called "poison" for a photo shoot.
He couldn't say no, because of the implication.
Obviously if he did say no, they wouldn't make him eat it. But the thing is, he's not gonna say no, because of the implication.
Consistency? Not even once.
RFK Jr. about to legalize date rape drugs. Mark. My. Words.
Vaccines are the laziest, lowest effort medicine we have. There is no medical treatment that is more effective for so little actual work on the part of the patient. Which is exactly the kind of medicine we need to have the greatest impact on the population base.
Even better than that. You take the medicine and it reduces everyone else's risk of getting sick, even the ones that refuse to take the medicine. It's the closest thing we have IRL to literal magic.
As an immunocompromised person, thank you to everyone who gets vaccinated against communicable disease, you make my world a little less heinous to navigate.
I appreciate your gratitude and I really do hope it does some good for others... Especially because I really hate needles but I have it done anyway for this reason. Lol 😬
Counterpoint: RFK doesn't want to admit he got his weird voice thing from hep C from his IV heroin habit, so it has to be vaccines. Checkmate, libtard.
How does Hep C cause spasmodic dysphonia? I can’t say I’ve ever seen that on the general medical Hep C bingo card.
Link?
People like RFK don't get it. Also, has anyone seen a fucking microchip in a syringe... ever?
You can't see them without a microscope, duhhh.
That's why they're called MICRO-chips.
Thoughts and prayers, America.
I actually met this mother fucker in Mexico in 1999, giving a talk on habitat preservation at Lagoona San Ignacio to a bunch of C list celebrities who were there to support the Natural Resource Defense Council and it's efforts to stop Mitsubishi from building a salt extraction plant in the middle of a gray whale breeding sanctuary (super good cause).
I was there with a bunch of high school students who's rich white parents paid for them to go on an expensive ass field trip to watch whales fuck (and do eco protest activist tourism). Coincidentally, the NRDC was there too and they got really excited to invite a bunch of American highschool students to their media shindig.
RFK Jr. got SUPER drunk and gave a sloppy, rambling, barely coherent speech, thanking people for their generosity. The kids were like "WTF is up with this dude? We've never seen grownups act like this!"
We did get to hear some really cool marine biologists talk about gray whales. Then one of THEM (Roger Payne, I think) got really drunk too and told us "Whales are people damn it! But you can't publish that! You can't fucking publish that!"
This is like, one mention of "nuclear wessels" away from being a deleted scene from Star Trek IV.
Roger Payne is right.
Wait so he is pro psychedelics?
Huh, it would be really weird if the US legalized acid.
If maga starts doing acid to own the libs maybe they would finally start questioning things.
I know I’m wrong, but one can hope can’t they?
I would love for this to be true, and I believe there are many benefits to psychedelics…but then I remember the Manson family existed
Edit: I fully support psychedelics..just saying.
And on a friendlier, non-Manson note. Please share your favorite psych related music @ !psychedelicmusic@lemmy.world
Yeah this is actually really hopeful in a fucked up way. I really hope they legalize psychedelics. They are an extremely effective way to get people to stop voting republican. Worked for me. It woke something up in me that made me realize how selfish and self-serving that entire party is. I'm the only one in my family who no longer votes republican, and also the only one who has tried psychedelics. I think that says a lot.
Honestly, some of these pricks could really probably benefit from getting out of their head for a bit lol.
I could see a world where all politicians are required to do a guided LSD trip prior to taking office being better than this one.
Careful... this is how you wind up with cabinet memeber Joe Rogan
When people talk about psychedelics converting everyone to the left, I think about Joe Rogan, and how he has had many many more psychedelic experiences than your average person. Also, assholes like John McAfee, exist. So, psychedelics don't seem to automatically make everyone empathetic, like is so often preached.
Make Peyote Great Again
The thing with psychedelics is that you only see what you bring with you
Damn that FDA and their suppression of...*checks list...sunshine?
Was the solar eclipse an inside job?!?
i think he's referring to the butthole sunners
I think it's like the FDA having just reasonable guidelines on how much UV you can safely be exposed to. RFKJR prolly thinks sun lotion prevents all the healthiness from the sun and crystallises your amygdala or something along those lines.
It's quite likely a belief that sunscreen lotion is a bad thing that harms people. Found that one out from an old high school crush from FL. She looks like leather now.
To be fair, non-mineral sunscreens do fuck with your hormones a bit. Still better then skin cancer though.
There was a finding a few years ago that while preventing skin cancer, sunscreen was also causing people in some places to get less vitamin d which was increasing instances of colon cancer. The solution isn't banning sunscreen, it's making sure people get some small amount of sun or supplements vitamin d.
Being from Oz I never really considered issues with vitamin d until I moved to the UK for a few years and discovered that limited vitamin d is a real problem in winter. Im not sure on the deficiency you need for colon cancer but a few weeks of little to no Sun really messes with your head and body.
Being from Oz
Did the Wicked movie get the look right? It seems like a fun place apart from all the fascism.
The book did it better =)
In all that crazy, there's, shockingly, two good points:
Psychedelics. There's at least anecdotal evidence they're good for treating certain traumas / PTSD. So, yeah, we should be looking into their medicinal applications. But is it the FDA or the DEA that's cockblocking those?
Stem cells. Abso-fucking-lutely yes. But wasn't it the "pro life" people holding that up?
He also talked about obstructive health patents. I'll take "Things that he won't follow through on" for 500.
Stem cells.
He’s not talking about the stem cells that can cure a select few diseases.
He’s talking about an alternative medicine thing which is basically sticking cells from your right arm into your left arm and calling it “stem cell therapy” then claiming it can cure hundreds of diseases.
There is zero evidence (or RCTs) showing his version of “stem cells” works.
The FDA bases approval on two highly successful phase 3 RCTs of a specific drug for a specific condition. You can read more about that process here
Neither psychedelics not RFK’s version of stem cell therapy has that yet.
Yeah it's the FDA keeping people from exercising.
What he's missing is that people who want raw milk are already finding ways to get it. And people who understand the safety issues won't buy it.
There might be some real self selection and culling of the right wing heard about to happen. Maybe this is for the greater good after all?
127TB of data. That's almost exactly 20 LTO-6 tapes. Good for 30 years when you'll need to transfer them to something better.
It'll cost you less than $300 and it'll all fit into a shoebox.
Become an archivist. The future depends on it.
Fucking FDA and big Pharma having a stranglehold on vitamins, exercise and su-...and ..sunshine..