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Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water
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On the other hand, he and his family might be giving/getting lots of shits over the next few weeks.
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Won't somebody think of the children?
Their parents should have kept them far away from this dimwit.
Their parents should have kept them far away from this dimwit.
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I sometimes wonder if the most valuable concept I learned in school was probability. Obi Wan once said something to the effect that only the bad guys deal in absolutes. Biology doesn't deal in absolutes. Will you get diphtheria from bathing in tainted water? I'm guessing the odds are less than 50%, but higher than you would like. How badly do you need a bath? Will this vaccine kill me? Maybe, but you would be historically unlucky if that happened. Will the same vaccine prevent me from getting measles? Probably, and your chances of dying from measles are orders of magnitude greater than dying from a vaccine. Folks these days just don't seem to grasp this stuff. It's the same thinking that weighs countless lung cancer cases equally with 'my uncle smoked all his life and lived to be 90'.
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I hate to ask this, but is it the moral choice to stop this guy for good? He is profiting from murdering the ignorant.
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You know, if he kills off any of his grandchildren with this stunt, it's about as good an example of a Darwin Award as one could ask for.
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Dear RFKjr, swimming is ok but I won’t be convinced until you drink a nice big glass of that water!
Whacha say??
Whacha say??
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Wow, looks like a great place to hold a MAGA rally. And the Christian Nationalists can take turns baptizing each other while they're at it.
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It depends on what you mean by theory. If you’re using the scientific version, then “Germ Theory” means “germs are the best explanation we’ve found for diseases such as listeria, COVID, and syphilis”.
Unfortunately, he appears to think that it is the common (and incorrect) definition of “just a guess with no evidence” that applies here.
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And even if true, a perfect demonstration of survivorship bias.
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"And the 2025 Dead Man Of the Year Herman Cain Award is posthumously awarded to... "
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Does he have to? The brain worms stood no chance, what's an amoeba!
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He’s all worried about processed food but NOT a believer in germ theory? How is that stretch even possible. The Venn diagram on this doesn’t make sense to me.
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@Person_Man - great reference. I think the Simpsons also have a great one for this situation. I'm torn: on the one hand, I really want them to get REALLY sick. As someone else said above, "inverted volcano" sick. On the other hand, I REALLY don't want the little people to get sick.
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I hope that this does to a feeble, anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-germ theory charlatan exactly what a toxic, putrid body of water should do to a feeble, anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-germ theory charlatan.
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RFK literally believes in terrain theory. To wit: be good, eat natural foods, love God, and never get sick; if you get sick, you were doing something to deserve it. It is a framework that places health and healthcare wholly in the category of personal responsibility and, quite conveniently, allows the ruling elite to ignore any and all systemic problems.
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Bacteria and viruses causing disease is not a theory, scientifically or otherwise. It's an established fact. The theory part is how it happens.
Just as with evolution. Evolution is not a theory, it's a fact. How it happens--natural selection--is the explanatory theory.
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Anecdotally, Giuseppe Brotzu discovered cephalosporium acremonium, a bacteria fighting mold, by watching some teens playing in sewage contaminated ocean water and wondering why the hell they weren't getting typhoid.
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Meh, he's a Kennedy. He's used to swimming in water and leaving people behind...
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Nothing will happen to him. Republican's have proven that karma does not exist. If it did half......OK 3/4ths that party would explode into fire.
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You left out how RFKJ has ordered an investigation into this "assassination attempt by woke Democrats".
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