• Roguelazer
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    1332 months ago

    “Anti-vaccine advocate” is a weird way of phrasing “random unqualified non-doctor who got in trouble for working with his dad to chemically castrate autistic children”

    • @mean_bean279@lemmy.world
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      442 months ago

      It sounds like Lupin is a puberty blocker too, which is like the whole thing the right is against… so they hire a guy who uses puberty blockers on kids, but it’s ok cause he believes it stops autism?

  • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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    332 months ago

    Wakefield was paid to create that paper and he lost his medical license for his lack of ethics. RFK wants to study him.

    What was RFK’s profession? Did he have one besides being a Kennedy? Did he study anything legitimate in depth in his life?

    • @ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      232 months ago

      He was actually a lawyer and was fairly well known for defending environmental causes, minority groups, and disenfranchised communities

      If he didn’t take this turn later he probably would’ve been remembered as a fairly decent man who turned his life around (a former heroin addict) and did good things

      Instead he is known who destroyed the country’s healthcare system. I personally don’t believe he was ever a former addict. I think he was a shitty child of extreme privilege (objectively true) who was an asshole that stole shit from people and sold drugs despite having access to extreme wealth in his teens (objectively true) and kept doing heroin until he finally got caught by someone who couldn’t sweep it under the rug late into his law career (objectively true). At this point he had been doing heroin 10+ years and apparently quit for good with one rehab stint (highly suspect).

      Given his privilege and the timing (late 80s) I suspect he got access to a corrupt doctor that wrote him tons of adderall scripts and he just changed his addiction to something “legitimate” (conjecture). Maybe he cleaned himself up over the next 40 years and that’s why he now he has such a beef against adderall and psych meds now. Classic right wing projection: I can’t take these without slamming 25 a day and become a methd up zombie so I assume everyone is the same (also conjecture, obviously).

    • Optional
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      32 months ago

      Strangely, yes. But it’s kind of mashed in with the rest of his um, adventures.

  • ssillyssadass
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    232 months ago

    Reminds me of how companies like Coca-Cola would order mass “studies” to prove that sugar is in fact healthy.

    • @finkrat@lemmy.world
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      11 month ago

      The problem was never the cash flow bottom line, the problem was where the money was going, we need it to kill American soldiers in an attempt to invade Canada, destroy our youth with previously defeated viruses, deprived trans people what they need to live, throw innocent people in El Salvadorian prisons, detain PhD students who exercised their freedom of speech and weather a fruitless trade war with other countries, so Putin’s Russia can rise to glory and they will then go and Make America Great Again

      (/s)

  • @Binturong@lemmy.ca
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    82 months ago

    The goal here is to gin up a pseudo-scientific paper to use as a prop to reinforce the misinformed population and push the anti-vax agenda further into actual policy, probably resulting in vaccine bans. RFK hates Americans and humanity, as evident by pretty well every action he takes and opinion he holds.