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RFK Jr continues to make dubious health claims as CDC roils under his leadership

www.theguardian.com RFK Jr continues to make dubious health claims as CDC roils under his leadership

As leaders at Centers for Disease Control quit after director’s firing, Kennedy stokes controversy with pet theories

As leaders at Centers for Disease Control quit after director’s firing, Kennedy stokes controversy with pet theories

In a week of chaos at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has continued to make questionable medical and health claims – and has been slammed for them by experts and lawmakers alike.

In recent days, Kennedy has been facing increasing calls for his resignation following the Trump administration’s firing of the CDC director, Susan Monarez, which in turn prompted four other top officials to quit the agency. The chaos across US health agencies also comes as Kennedy released a slew of controversial and contradictory rules surrounding Covid-19 vaccines.

On top of all this turmoil, Kennedy has also met with significant backlash for a handful of outlandish remarks and revelations, which have only fueled the controversy surrounding his leadership at the health department.

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This guy doesn't seem like a good person
- I used to think he was just a broken-clock idiot with good intentions, now I think he's insane and has no idea wtf he wants or is doing.
  
  Honestly I believe he’s still on the drugs
  
  Anti-vaxxers are gonna anti-vax.
  Thing is, the denialist mindset doesn't tend to limit itself to one thing. In for a penny, in for a pound. The crazy tends to come in clusters.
- That is a disqualifying attribute with this administration
- His skin also looks like he's been drinking sewage for a decade.
  
  His voice also sounds the same.
- plural, for his vermiform masters.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, has continued to make questionable medical and health claims
No
He doesn't make questionable claims, he's spouting outright fairytale bullshit that usually obviously horse shit, or if not, is already disproven at best
Stop phrasing as if what the guy says has even a remote chance of being true, because it isn't
- Thank you.

All it'll take is one outbreak that goes out of control.
Edit: I meant without a competent CDC to hold the line.
- Unfortunately it won't some people just believe what their told and that's that. I once had an argument with a work colleague because they think COVID was a huge hoax, this person was in a coma for 6 MONTHS and still thinks it was fake
  
  Undeserved survivor
  
  Ya know, if RFK Jr could just get all these people to die of preventable diseases, I might actually consider it a success.
  They live in a completely different reality. One that is defined entirely by Fox, and Brietfart, and Thiel. They take whatever dribbles down to them as incontestable fact.
  Nothing can or needs to be proven. If they say so, it's true.
  This isn't politics, this is religion. They are operating on 100% blind faith.
  
  So...what do they think caused their coma?
  
  was that for covid? or something else? its well known comas has a propensity to cause brain damage as well. look at j peterson.
- We had one. 1.2m Americans dead. And they reelected him.
  
  I mean now, with the CDC gutted of expertise. One outbreak without the CDC.
  
  They obviously should have taken more sewage baths to toughen up.

He doesn’t believe in germs. What do you expect.

What's everyone complaining about? Bobby Brainworm doesn't even need an e-meter, he can just scan people in a public setting and tell that children are ~~not clear of engrams~~ "overburdened with mitochondrial challenges"!
- he think hes a michlorian.

Serious deep studies need to be done on any of the claims he makes that don’t have adequate study. I know the autism thing already has a bunch, along with retractions.
But I suspect other claims have been deemed not easy enough to study, or worth more study. And some will require long timelines for the study to make sense.
I shouldn’t be hearing reporting on RFK’s BS that can’t easily share overwhelming evidence to refute his claims.
- As long as it is maga getting their medical advice from this clown I am fine with this.
- Well, if a dumbass like Bobby Brainworms just makes claims of something and doesn't have any evidence for those claims, then the burden of proof is on him.
  It doesn't fall on others to disprove the claims of idiots who have no relevant education, no relevant skills and no expertise.
  Edit: I mean, don't get me wrong - I understand what you are going for here, but the denialists need to know that this isn't how science works - falling for their gambits should not be a thing and everyone should point out what they are doing, at all times.
  
  That’s fair. I just wish it was all more concrete.
  And I think overall, we lack health and nutrition studies that are unambiguously not backed by food companies. And the history of nonsense studies and lack of studies around nutrition makes for such a messy discussion even among people who are normal not crazy people, but who just debate things as simple as fats vs carbs. I dunno.

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