RFK Jr.’s rejection of germ theory debunked in Senate hearing

Who's the barber here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ

What was only recently satire is an actual position.

They will kill you and your kids.

And not the funny ones.

Drain the humors!

Pete Hegseth bragged on TV that he had not washed his hands in 10 years, because "germs are not a real thing." These are stupid people.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47201923

His hygienist specializes in miasmas.

A kind of Terry Pratchett, Good Omens version, absolutely. "We don't actually have to make new plagues, we just convince enough people that the natural plagues they've already got don't exist, or the causes aren't what they've been told, or that the treatments do greater harm than the disease. In fact, we don't even have to deceive that many. A handful of posts to alternative medicine, conspiracy, and mom's net forums, and human nature will do the rest."

There’s also already a horseman for War. Who would be Death and Famine I wonder?

This guy is in charge of the CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL. Not only responsible for the health of the nearly 400M US Citizens, but really globally in many ways. And this failson thinks you can sweat away ebola with some fucking supplements... that he happens to peddle.

Less “reduce the number,” and more “make the poor more tractable.” The rich still need human carpet to walk on, they just need it to be uneducated, fecund, and desperate to get under their feet.

To reduce the number of non-working poor people. Or “useless eaters” as the psychotic, billionaire class calls them.

This contradicts their insistence that children should have children to stop population decline

Which is short sighted as a healthy populace is what lead to the US economic growth in industry prior to it being redefined as being based entirely on stock market gambling vibes. A strong and healthy populace was a big part of the post WWII boom.

Is that why they’re trying to restrict birth control and sex education while saying people need to have more kids, so there will be fewer poor people?

The Silent Hill nurses.

Nurse Ratchet! You are my people.

I’m at the cafe and people are looking at me as I laugh out loud alone. Thank you.

LOL TWO downvotes. Must be Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil because Pete and RFK can't read.

Can't help but notice that you have Doc Oc in there twice but you don't have Dr Ruth even once...  

To be fair, miasma theory made sense and was completely logical, before microscopes.

They knew about actual lethal gases, and ones that had different effects on the body. They knew there were gases they couldn't yet detect, as they were still discovering new ones. They knew rotting stuff produced all kind of gases and stenchs.

Hell, the theory is still pretty much valid for radon, though for reasons they couldn't have possibly imagined.

And at the same time, the idea that animals could get small enough to be invisible, and to invade the human body, was absurd.

It came as quite a surprise when the microscope was invented and every single drop of water turned out to be a whole ecosystem teeming with life, and we turned out to be precariously balanced colonies of microscopic cells, also inhabited by a whole bacterial ecosystem teeming with both friends and foes.

And then came viruses, which are downright absurd to the point that we're still figuring out where they fit in the tree of life, and whether they're alive or not.

And prions, which are the stuff of horror science fiction yet completely logical when you think about how proteins work, and how easily they might sometimes not.

Miasma theory wasn't correct, sure, but it was definitely simpler, and made much more sense than the mess reality turned out to be.

Lead

like inhaling Trumps dookie stank

Or having brain worms?

Or getting whale carcass juice on you?

Or handling a dead bear?

Or cutting off a dead raccoon's dick?

This guy is trying so hard to be patient zero in the next plague, and he's not even trying to hide it.

Yes. This guy literally eats roadkill. And brags about it.

But he still gets to keep his job, because Congress won't remove him

I think he'll explode into bugs like the oogie-boogie man.

It was interesting for me decades ago before i realized these politicians just make shit up all the time and it's boring now. Yes trump admin is definitely the dumbest one ever but idk it just bores me now, this was all stuff us teenagers were crying about under bush and now it's just worse.

This is what I scrolled down for. Thank you.

one shortsighted charlatan

Way more than just one

It's extremely poor hygiene to sneeze into your hand fyi

The way MAGA questions it is far from beautiful my friend.

You are correct, but I'm willing to give some leeway for using "unquestionable" as shorthand for "backed by such a remarkable corpus of evidence that for any contradictory hypothesis to seriously call it into question would require a literally unimaginable scope of evidence".

I think germ theory and gravity are about the only ones I can readily think of. Not relativity based gravity, just... Gravity.

Alligators looking pretty darn close to how they did millions of years ago is a nice indicator for survival of the fittest. I think fittest probably involves social paradigms with humans, and being recognized as fit might present an interesting intellectual challenge where you are more likely to find yourself surrounded by sycophants who soonest reenforce your own bias. Perhaps even, you’re looking at decades of that toxin in its effects. But, I am not a researcher on this field so I digress.

Clearly, scientists are witches and must be burned.

people are eating children

I'm sorry, what's up?

People didn't let him off easy. They outright rejected him. So he sold himself to Trump for the position he has. He's a morally compromised whore for money and power so he doesn't have to face the harm he has caused to countless people.

Ok, but the guy flat-out rejects absolute and established truth.

Germ theory was controversial when we didn't have microscopes that could see microbes. Terrain theory is working backwards, that germs are attracted to areas of disease. It is so trivially easy to disprove today that it was disproven in 1870.

Doctors do not use "Germ Theory" to diagnose patients. Research into chronic and/or viral diseases has not stopped because "it's probably germs". Treating germ theory as the sole monolith of modern medicine is petulant contrarian nonsense that is grouped in with a whole host of other anti-establishment conspiracy theories.