• Kalcifer
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    203 hours ago

    […] psychedelics […]

    I’m glad that it seems like the war on drugs is showing cracks. I completely support a move to legalize psychedelics.

  • Kalcifer
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    […] ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine […]

    I’ll be honest, I don’t really understand this one. I’d guess that this is likely some hold over grudge from COVID, but I don’t really understand why it’s still a concern to get, presumably, more open access to those drugs. Aren’t we long past that conversation? Feels like beating a dead horse.

    • Liz
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      217 minutes ago

      I’m literally taking hydroxychloroqine right now. There’s no difficulty in accessing it. Not unless you consider needing a prescription difficult.

    • @BranBucket@lemmy.world
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      17 minutes ago

      He rants about the FDA suppressing things big pharma can’t patent… Did they not develop and patent these?

    • TheRealKuni
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      112 hours ago

      Feels like beating a dead horse.

      At least that horse won’t have parasites with all the ivermectin RFK Jr. is going to feed it.

  • Kalcifer
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    […] raw milk […]

    I’d support raw milk being legal for consumers to purchase so long as the manufacturers of said raw milk could be held to account for harm caused to a consumer who purchased it under the belief that it was safe — likely, this would also mean that, if it isn’t safe, the product containing raw milk must otherwise display explicit warnings. I think a person should be allowed to take take their own risks.

    • @booly@sh.itjust.works
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      214 hours ago

      Oh, he knows. They took him on an airplane and made him eat food he had just called “poison” for a photo shoot.

      He couldn’t say no, because of the implication.

      • Liz
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        115 minutes ago

        Obviously if he did say no, they wouldn’t make him eat it. But the thing is, he’s not gonna say no, because of the implication.

  • The Bard in GreenA
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    I actually met this mother fucker in Mexico in 1999, giving a talk on habitat preservation at Lagoona San Ignacio to a bunch of C list celebrities who were there to support the Natural Resource Defense Council and it’s efforts to stop Mitsubishi from building a salt extraction plant in the middle of a gray whale breeding sanctuary (super good cause).

    I was there with a bunch of high school students who’s rich white parents paid for them to go on an expensive ass field trip to watch whales fuck (and do eco protest activist tourism). Coincidentally, the NRDC was there too and they got really excited to invite a bunch of American highschool students to their media shindig.

    RFK Jr. got SUPER drunk and gave a sloppy, rambling, barely coherent speech, thanking people for their generosity. The kids were like “WTF is up with this dude? We’ve never seen grownups act like this!”

    We did get to hear some really cool marine biologists talk about gray whales. Then one of THEM (Roger Payne, I think) got really drunk too and told us “Whales are people damn it! But you can’t publish that! You can’t fucking publish that!”

  • @Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    Wait so he is pro psychedelics?

    Huh, it would be really weird if the US legalized acid.

    If maga starts doing acid to own the libs maybe they would finally start questioning things.

    I know I’m wrong, but one can hope can’t they?

    • @distantsounds@lemmy.world
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      74 hours ago

      I would love for this to be true, and I believe there are many benefits to psychedelics…but then I remember the Manson family existed

    • @Psythik@lemmy.world
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      488 hours ago

      Yeah this is actually really hopeful in a fucked up way. I really hope they legalize psychedelics. They are an extremely effective way to get people to stop voting republican. Worked for me. It woke something up in me that made me realize how selfish and self-serving that entire party is. I’m the only one in my family who no longer votes republican, and also the only one who has tried psychedelics. I think that says a lot.

  • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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    Vaccines are the laziest, lowest effort medicine we have. There is no medical treatment that is more effective for so little actual work on the part of the patient. Which is exactly the kind of medicine we need to have the greatest impact on the population base.

    • @julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works
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      Even better than that. You take the medicine and it reduces everyone else’s risk of getting sick, even the ones that refuse to take the medicine. It’s the closest thing we have IRL to literal magic.

      As an immunocompromised person, thank you to everyone who gets vaccinated against communicable disease, you make my world a little less heinous to navigate.

    • Lemminary
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      239 hours ago

      People like RFK don’t get it. Also, has anyone seen a fucking microchip in a syringe… ever?

        • @nBodyProblem@lemmy.world
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          22 hours ago

          I love the idea of bio hacking. Too bad the things they do have such poor risk to utility ratio 😂

          When do I get my cyborg legs? That’s what I wanna know

      • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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        139 hours ago

        I think it’s a large variation of a syringe needle that chips our pets, but aside from that monstrously large setup that isn’t even used on humans, no.

        Closest thing I can think of is the capsule sized camera that can be swallowed to collect data as it travels through that long tube that connect mouth to anus. Even then, I’ve never seen that setup used on anyone.

        • Lemminary
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          58 hours ago

          Yeah, that’s what I mean. You can feel the microchip under the skin with the real ones. But we’re shown a clear liquid going in. Where are the 'chips?

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      159 hours ago

      When was the last time your big FDA doctor told you to sun your butthole? Why would they hide that from you?

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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      I think it’s like the FDA having just reasonable guidelines on how much UV you can safely be exposed to. RFKJR prolly thinks sun lotion prevents all the healthiness from the sun and crystallises your amygdala or something along those lines.

    • @Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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      3311 hours ago

      It’s quite likely a belief that sunscreen lotion is a bad thing that harms people. Found that one out from an old high school crush from FL. She looks like leather now.

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        It’s quite likely a belief that sunscreen lotion is a bad thing that harms people.

        I mean, it halfway is:

        • “Sunscreen” – stuff with a decently high SPF rating – is a good thing that prevents cancer.

        • “Suntan lotion” – usually glorified coconut oil with fuck-all SPF rating – is a bad thing that harms people.

        • “Sunscreen lotion” – a confused amalgamation of the previous terms – is not a thing and only misleads people by conflating good things with harmful ones.

        • @three@lemm.ee
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          22 hours ago

          This is not truth everywhere. Where I grew up suntan lotion is sunscreen.

  • Todd Bonzalez
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    239 hours ago

    127TB of data. That’s almost exactly 20 LTO-6 tapes. Good for 30 years when you’ll need to transfer them to something better.

    It’ll cost you less than $300 and it’ll all fit into a shoebox.

    Become an archivist. The future depends on it.

  • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    68 hours ago

    Honestly, Stem Cells becoming more available is cool. I don’t expect his christian overlords to allow it, but it’s a cool thought.

    I just hope none of his other snake oils end up in products for the general population. If it just killed off willing idiots then womp womp, they get what they voted for, but public health risks are rarely so discriminatory.

    • @ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
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      One the one hand, yes, I expect there to be internal pushback on this one. On the other hand, the HHS Secretary reports directly to the least Christian man in America.

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        But the supreme authority in this case is the senate. If the Trump Admin steps too out of line the senate can remove the secretaries, federal judges, and/or the president themself with 60 votes, which would be as easy as 45 DNC, 2 IND, and 13 GOP.

        In fact, Trump was forced into signing steel tariffs / sanctions against Russia when he initially refused to sign S.722 in 2017.

        Seems like a lot of the sources on that debacle have been lost to the pile of Russia and Trump ties, but I remember it very clearly.

        Christians acting evil starts to make sense if you consider god was never on any of our sides.

  • @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    3111 hours ago

    Don’t worry, everyone! While we will ignore science and make sure you don’t have vaccines, you’ll have shrooms, rock crystals, and essential oils when bird flu finally hits.

    Or I eat a dead bat and become patient zero for Ebola. It’s all good! - RFK Jr

    • Pandantic [they/them]
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      I’m surprised, with all the whale carcasses and roadkill bears, RFK Jr hasn’t already become patient zero for a pandemic.

    • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      49 hours ago

      The Democrats should create a shadow presidential cabinet where the health secretary gives science backed advice for people who are looking for it. It would be better to have a centralised political source rather than having everyone independently search Healthline