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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

im okay with ending the war on psychedelics though.

not for everyone but also not worth hunting and jailing people for.

fuck off with all the pseudoscientific garbage.

[–] CitizenKong 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Speaking of raw milk, bird flu has just been disovered in it. Buckle up, the next pandemic is coming. Maybe it will go down in history as the MAGA flu. Or Trumps.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The god damn FDA and its war on...

....checks notes...

Sunshine and Exercise!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Apparently now conservatism is just constantly relitigating every minor perceived slight.

For the most part, liberals have moved past the fact that these assholes held the country hostage and killed a million people throwing their tantrum.

Meanwhile, conservatives are like "we haven't forgotten that you made fun of us for the horse dewormer thing."

[–] auzy 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah. They were pretty adamant lefties were easily triggered a few years ago

Now they believe lefties are destroying the environment, and are having a temper tantrum over a lie as stupid as people eating pets told by a guy who lies about everything

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[–] [email protected] 318 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Damn that FDA and their suppression of...*checks list...sunshine?

Was the solar eclipse an inside job?!?

[–] Dasus 103 points 5 days ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] Olhonestjim 68 points 5 days ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

"ivermectin"

aka, the horse paste Trump pushed on us during the covid outbreak.

[–] Treczoks 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When the government is out to kill the citizens, they are no longer citizens but subjects.

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[–] [email protected] 197 points 5 days ago (12 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 215 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (20 children)

In all that crazy, there's, shockingly, two good points:

  1. 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?

  2. Stem cells. Abso-fucking-lutely yes. But wasn't it the "pro life" people holding that up?

[–] Anticorp 139 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't expect consistency from this administration.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] TheTimeKnife 16 points 4 days ago

Finally we can find out how the FDA hid the sun

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Start growing your own food, boil rain water for clean water, and avoid close contact with others for the next four years then? Can't wait to hear about all the cases of preventable diseases, contaminated foods, and new, deadly viruses we get introduced to once these clowns take over...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If they break that infrastructure the long term impact won’t be immediately evident, which means the impetus to fix it will match that of climate change.

And last way longer than 4 yrs. Took Biden 3 yrs to fix Trumps fucked up economy.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Can't wait for the war on sunshine to end!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The solar panels are sucking all the energy from the sun and not allowing anyone else to use it.

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

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?

[–] Psythik 88 points 5 days ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Don't give me hope RFK. Like you're really gonna legalize psychedelics for therapy.

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[–] Bwaz 9 points 3 days ago

Raw milk and no vaccines. Get ready for the great Bird Flu epidemic.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Stem cells? Does he know what party he's hitched his wagon to?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"You know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine."

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[–] mojofrododojo 20 points 4 days ago

fucking morons are going to kill us all with raw stupidity

[–] [email protected] 79 points 5 days ago (14 children)

[…] psychedelics […]

I'm glad that it seems like the war on drugs is showing cracks. I completely support a move to legalize psychedelics.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's why it's included and it's the first item. To make the rest seem reasonable.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

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!"

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago

True story, I went to my doctor about losing some weight as I was close to getting diabetes. For some reason, my doctor loudly proclaimed "Here is a prescription for some meds" while handing me the prescription.

It wasn't a prescription for meds. My doctor wrote "Due to Big Pharma and the FDA listening in, I have to prescribed various meds. You really should eat healthy diet that has a healthy amount of calories made up of vegetables and fruit. I needed get exercise and should spend time outside to help everything."

Big Pharma is everywhere! /s

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 13 points 4 days ago

I guess tripping through the end times is on the table? I'll take it, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 days ago

RFK Jr. about to legalize date rape drugs. Mark. My. Words.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (12 children)

[…] ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine […]

I'll be honest, I don't really understand this one. I'd guess that this is likely some hold over grudge from COVID, but I don't really understand why it's still a concern to get, presumably, more open access to those drugs. Aren't we long past that conversation? Feels like beating a dead horse.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Actually, the brain worm never died, it is sentient, and this is part of the RFK worm’s long term goal to infect the nation via destruction of the FDA. The rest is there simply as distraction.

(This comment is for the readers of Parasite by Mira Grant.)

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] Maggoty 30 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Oh good they listed them all in one place so if a doctor references it I know to just get up and walk the fuck out.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh no it's the Sun everybody run inside -the FDA probably

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

[…] raw milk […]

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.

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[–] BenLeMan 32 points 5 days ago

And a healthy swig of bleach for good measure. Cheers!

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