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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

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Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Robert F.
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    Dude. WTF is going on in America.

    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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      Forty years of Republican brain rot and systemic cutting of education.

      If your country has conservatives that look up to the United States, stamp it out now.

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        And lead paint and leaded fuel everywhere

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      NOTHING GOOD

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      Well you see we recently discovered that russia won the cold war. And now we have to reset the country to 1920 in order for them to get ahead.

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      2Dumb4Survival

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      Everything I was assured by my entire friend group “Couldn’t happen outside of my paranoid delusions.”

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    Fun fact. RFK forced his brother to take cocaine and demerol. His brother would later get addicted, and die of an overdose. Also, he sounds like that from years of heroin abuse.

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      For what it’s worth on the voice thing, assuming that’s what “he sounds like that” refers to: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279176/rfk-voice-spasmodic-dysphonia

      That’s the result of a rare neurological condition known as spasmodic dysphonia, which has afflicted Kennedy for decades.

      If you’ve got any evidence that it was heroin that caused that neurological condition I’m all ears, but we have a pretty reliable source on this one.

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        He’s been a severe heroin addict for 14 years. It isn’t uncommon for drug addicts to have motor dysfunction (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3966544/). He’s put out himself that it is spasmodic dysphonia, which is a disease in which the cause is not well understood (ironically, it may be associated with measles). Importantly, this information was released when he was running for president. It is probably better to name a ‘disorder’ rather than to say I broke my brain from years for substance abuse.

        There’s a behind the bastard podcast that goes into detail about RFK’s life. It’s truly awful.

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            RFK Jr.: ‘I Was a Heroin Addict for 14 Years’

            He said it himself. Lots of sources.

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            I find this response comical, given the masterclass of sheer incompetence, corruption, and narcissism of the last 3 months.

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              Brain worms are difficult to get rid of.

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            You know the Right is held to a different standard

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        i read that he got hepatitis c from sharing needles and that screwed up his voice

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    I’m very familiar with the world of academia. To be honest, many of them/us are surprisingly stupid, but for a reason. To get a doctorate in a field is no easy task. Your lack of knowledge in much else is because you spent all you had being knowledgeable in a specific thing.

    So even if you think a doctor is a stupid person in general, there is NO EXCUSE for them being stupid in the one thing they spent years becoming an expert in.

    So, is this “doctor” actually holding a doctorate in this field? Let me check…

    …god, he has the most generic name it’s impossible to know.

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    I don’t have a name to provide (as the “person harmed”) but if you know of anyone that he visited while infected here’s the complaint form: https://public3.tmb.state.tx.us/TMB_SSO_Complaint/default.aspx

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    Is Typhoid Mary getting a statue as well?

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      Measles mary

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    I would say “extraordinary criminal”.

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    rfk is doing gods work and making the world a better place for the rest of the world.

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      He has extremely valid points about ultra processed foods. That’s about it

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