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[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

"Misleads" fuck this soft shoe, "rfk Jr falsely claims something will work that won't"

I know saying "lies" is hard for reporters due to lible claims, but fucking say it's wrong at least.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Recommending Vitamin A alone for measles is much akin to telling people to just walk it off

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Worse actually. Vitamin A is easy to overdose on, it's a fat-soluble vitamin, and people have died from vitamin A toxicity. So they now have both the risk of serious complications and/or death from measles, and the risk of serious complications and/or death from vitamin A toxicity.

[–] NimdaQA@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And probably a very interesting way to spread the knowledge that yes, you can overdose on vitamins.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Vitamin A is fat soluble, so especially problematic.

[–] BackwardMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Learning by dying.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 0 points 2 days ago

At least he’s hurting “the right people”?

[–] Indie59@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I thought ‘wall it off’ was their recommendation for polio…

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

Worse than that since you can actually kill yourself by taking too much vitamin A. It's more like trying to treat the measles by playing Russian roulette.

[–] Kobie123@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No no. Keep going. I want to see how far the red states are willing to go before they admit their mistake

[–] jagged_circle 2 points 1 day ago

They won't. They'll die. Same reason why polls changed as covid progressed. So many of the idiots killed themselves (unfortunately infecting many others first)

Just let it happen.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It feels like we're about 5 minutes away from RFK Jr recommending injecting each other with ...I dunno...artisanal organic chlorine bleach or something.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If there weren't children involved, I would be cheering for this outcome.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

and of course there is a high likelihood that the parents are vaccinated while witholding the same protection from their kids.

I am very tired - please make the crazy stop.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago

The crazy will continue until the leopards have had their fill.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Unlike vitamin C, vitamin A is fat-soluble and overdose can result in death. Vitamin A deficiency is rare in developed countries so what he's suggesting is that people risk poisoning themselves with no proven benefit for measles.

The CDC in the past has not done a good job at quantifying the risk of vaccines — we are going to do that now

Politicians are not scientists. Scientists understand what they are not, but it would seem like politicians such as RFK Jr are struggling with this.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

What about HCQ and horse dewormer, Bobby Brainworms, huh? Are you trying to cover up the real measles cure?

[–] jagged_circle 3 points 1 day ago

Just get vaccinated you assholes. That's what works.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Everything special about this man was true when he still had an umbilical chord.

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm getting fuckin whiplash over here. He was just admitting vaccines are good

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Man's got Wallace and Gromit in his head looking for cheese. No telling which synapse will burn out next

[–] fernfrost@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

The new admins don’t care about the poor & uneducated. The new American dream is 'get rich or get fucked'

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I heard old raccoon meat cures measles.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Best I can do is a bear carcass and the head of a beached whale…

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Sold, American!

[–] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Quick someone call Dr. Wallach and Ben Fuchs and then someone needs to soft boil and shit load of eggs in Carnivora.