The Kennedy curse is taking its sweet time with RFK.
Why should the rest of us suffer because RFK Jr is an idiot?
Because enough idiots decided it was more important to feel smart than to be smart, so they voted for President Pedophile.
In before: But Harris, Gaza, enablers, same thing!
In the meantime Gaza is gone, ICE is murdering people in the open, LGBTQ communities live through the biggest backlash etc
“But but then you support GeNoCiDe!”
[according to the cries of Lemmy morons ushering in an objectively worse world]
Don’t forget the cries of “status quo”. Or the further doubling down on Murc’s Law and reactionary centrist type of rhetoric even after you’ve pointed it out, LOL.
I’ll be honest, I’m pretty sick of the DNC, and I do give them plenty of blame, but I’ve always been willing to vote for them to give us time to get the guillotines deployed.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
– Isaac Asimov
The damage done to this country by the right is incalculable and likely irreversible.
When the internet started empowering the dumbest idiots who don’t understand the world to find and support each other, we lost.
The human brain is not naturally a problem-solving tool of logic and reasoning, it has to be trained to use logic and reason, and in a world of comfort and ease like in the USA broadly, people had no incentive to learn more and be smarter other than social pressure, and that also dissolved as people found each other online and removed the pressure to step up their intellect to be accepted in broader society.
This has made a deep, slippery well of pseudo-science and naturalism and healing oils and magic water and crystals, which because of placebo effects and social influence, feel like they do more for people in their daily lives than mysterious terms like “mRNA” that defy all understanding or capability for people of limited intelligence to discuss with their coworkers around the lunch table and relate their own personal experiences so they seem special and interesting.
This has made a deep, slippery well of pseudo-science and naturalism and healing oils and magic water and crystals, which because of placebo effects and social influence, feel like they do more for people in their daily lives than mysterious terms like “mRNA”
I wish more people recognized this connection.
It’s all the same bullshit magical thinking, and it’s killing all of us. None of it is “harmless”.
This is why I maintain that technology needs, at minimum, a small but annoying technical barrier of entry. If any and every motion hadn’t been able to get online with an Apple product, the internet would be a much better place. A small amount of gatekeeping is actually a good thing.
It’s a nice idea but I don’t think it would’ve changed much. There are plenty of otherwise intelligent people who buy into conspiracy theories, like remember how the pandemic made us aware that antivax nurses exist? Not many for sure, but I didn’t even think that was possible. And there are also people who are smart in their field who think that makes them smart in everything so they spout a bunch of bullshit. Add in the smart grifters and I really don’t think very much would be different with a slightly more difficult internet.
Mobile phones and apps did it. They let boomers poke and swipe their way into platforms while taking a dump in a volume that Apple alone could never have managed.
Because the people that support him (and Pedonald) are like a bucket of crabs.
They don’t want any liberals getting any high-falutin’ ideas about science being there to improve our lives or anything. They want to drag YOU down with them. If you or your kids have to die of preventable disease so that they and/or their stupid thought leaders never have to admit to being wrong, that’s a price they are willing to pay.
We might have had to suffer it either way. Remember, RFK apparently approached both Kamala and Trump offering to endorse whoever let him be health secretary. Kamala reportedly refused, so good for her. Trump obviously didn’t. But there are a lot of MAHA/vaccine skeptics around the area I live, more than I was prepared for (judging by pre-election lawn signs before RFK dropped out).
It’s possible RFK’s loyalists were enough to effectively pick the president. I think we all underestimated how deeply anti-science contrarianism has burrowed into our neighbors and communities.
We might have had to suffer it either way.
Kamala reportedly refused, so good for her. Trump obviously didn’t.
So it sounds like we most definitely wouldn’t have had to suffer it either way. Only one politician was shameless enough to take any endorsement he could get.
In a release Tuesday, Moderna said the FDA did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with the vaccine. Instead, it said the FDA took issue with the “comparator” in its clinical trial — the vaccine the company used as a benchmark to evaluate its own shot.
The FDA said the use of the standard flu shot as a comparator “does not reflect the best-available standard of care.” The standard flu shot is FDA-approved.
Last year, Kennedy ordered that all new vaccines go through placebo-controlled clinical trials.
When vaccines are already available for a disease, it’s considered unethical to give clinical trial participants a placebo, rather than compare the new vaccine to the existing one. Giving a placebo would leave people who would be otherwise protected vulnerable to infection.
So glad we have someone competent leading the FDA. /s
someone competent leading the FDA
Hey now, that sentient overcooked hot dog is doing the best it can. It’s remarkably intelligent for a hot dog.
Sentient is pushing it.
Smells like eugenics.
RFK’s idea about how to make America healthy seems to be to kill everyone who isn’t already immune to the viruses that vaccines protect against.
If the only people who survive & breed are the ones who don’t need expensive medical care, then over time the population’s profit margin increases.
Someone needs to see if he’s immune to lead.
Genetically, his family has proven to be extremely susceptible to flying lead poisoning.
How does that work now that the federal government is clearly corrupt and not interested in the common good? Could it still be distributed without FDA approval?
They must have forgotten the customary presidential bribe.
The next stage of US tipping culture.
Not a joke. Nothing is getting FDA approved without a bribe.
I wasn’t joking.
Award that’s gold plated and mentions peace.
How long until a foreign nation takes the lead and leaves us backwards anti-science morons to belly-flop in the dirt?
I read the story about the FDA rejecting Moderna’s filing, then right after there was one about them signing a new manufacturing agreement with Mexico. Guess those of us in the US that want a vaccine will have to smuggle those across the border too now.
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-mrna-vaccines-agreement-moderna/
Moderna has built an mRNA facility here, so here’s hoping our TGA looks at it instead: https://www.invest.vic.gov.au/news-and-events/news/2024/december/moderna-opens-world-leading-vaccine-facility-in-victoria
I’ll take good news wherever I can get it. Cheers.
The problem is Australia and Canada rubber stamp FDA approval even though they insist they don’t.
The problem is Australia and Canada rubber stamp FDA approval
You lob unverified claims without due diligence that foreign governments trust unverified claims without due diligence?
“Oy, Pot,” said Kettle. But choosing between two federal organizations and one random internet guy lobbing accusations, you know whom I’m choosing, like Every Bleedin’ Time? Hint: It’s gonna be the two orgs with a bunch of pros on-board.
Aducanumab, Leqembi, Skyclarys, are three recent examples of FDA approved drugs that don’t work. In the case of Aducanumab, the Advisory committee resigned in protest, so the solution for Leqembi was to eliminate the Adcon. These drugs don’t work, and induce brain bleeds and death.
But it’s warm and quiet with one’s head up one’s ass.
Uh… Years ago?
What’s the pre-Dotard FDA equivalent I can look to for vaccine certification and advice?
I don’t know. I saw that Super Bowl MAHA ad featuring weird close ups of Mike Tyson eating fruit, and now I’m completely sold on the brain worm’s policies. Join the movement people. We can only get healthier if a lot of us start dying of completely preventable diseases.
“Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out.” Is a good slogan for MAHA.
It’s a good slogan for the fall of MAGA.
