There is a very real possibility that RFK has brain damage from long-term drug abuse.

Every member of this administration is thoroughly incompetent. It'd be funny if it didn't have dire consequences for the United States.

“New president of US Space flight rejects the Newton’s law of gravity”

Eventually you hit a point where something or someone is so stupid you can’t comprehend that what they say is what they really think. Like you may intellectually ‘know’ with near certainty that they are that stupid but the emotional centre of your brain can not accept it.

I hit that point with the politics of the US a long time ago, in the back of your head you think these are capable-ish people just grifting off the stupid people but that’d require such a malicious intent it’s from an emotionap standpoint nearly impossible again.

This is a paradox that will never be answered with certainty but given the track record of the current US president (and his pre political business ventures) I’d say it is stupidity, I’m nearly certain of it.

The worm in RFK's head didn't die. It consumed all RFK's brain and replaced it. The worm is RFK! Its sole purpose is to get more worms into Americans' heads.

I'm very glad the article contains an explanation of germ theory, miasma theory, and terrain theory. When talking to people in real life who have forgotten their middle school biology classes, I actually hear these theories referenced often but of course without the name. The idea that "diseases stem from imbalances in the internal 'terrain' of the body, such as malnutrition or the presence of toxic substances" sound plausible and intuitive, and is true to some extent, which is why people fall for it. I mean sure malnutrition causes diseases such as the lack of vitamin C causing scurvy, and substances like mercury cause poisoning; these are real. It's just that I found it astounding that both RFK Jr and several people I've met in real life would choose to believe these while discrediting germ theory.

The scale of ignorance among those in charge of the federal government now is astonishing.

Even President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho deferred to smarter people.

Peak idiocracy is upon us, not much else to say.

The worst comments are the flagged ones. The most untrue are the dead ones. Trust the establishment to not falsely characterize their critics. Why woudl anyone call something that opens with, "With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap..." a hit piece?

Oh baby, give me that big pharma K street revolving door propaganda! Empiricism is dead, credentialism gutted it to make a skin suit that academia now wears, so it's the science now! Preventative care is only legitimate if you pay the health industry for it! I look forward to the day when we can just label anyone who doesn't trust "the science" as insane so we can lock them up. Maybe if I'm a good boy they'll give me a weekly vaccine to protect me from misinformation. I wouldn't want to risk me having unapproved positions if I'm accidentally exposed.

I was involved with the raw vegan community in liberal Santa Cruz California for a number of years, and this was a very common opinion there. In some presentations I felt like the local extremist for insisting that germ theory was a good thing that led to the advantages of modern medicine. I now travel more in conservative trending carnivore circles where I haven't heard germ theory denial. On the contrary they tend to take particular pleasure in referring to conventional studies, to counter accusations of their own extremism. From my own experience it seems that RFK has imported these views more from the left than the right. Do others have a different experience?

Assuming you hadn't been laid off by DOGE, imagine having to work for this stupid clown.

Maybe the Emperor can appoint a Moon Landing Denier to run fucking NASA.

"Kennedy contrasts his erroneous take on miasma theory with germ theory, which he derides as a tool of the pharmaceutical industry and pushy scientists to justify selling modern medicines."

In 2010 or so, I worked in a very liberal town. I saw sign after sign against big pharma. When the political tide changed, these signs are nowhere to be found.

In fact, the new line of thinking is to trust big pharma and your doctor without question. I also remember grave stone decorations that stated this during covid.

Kennedy won a lawsuit after multiple years against big pharma when a vaccine caused severe brain damage in a child, who is now permanently disabled. Hit pieces on Kennedy won't change this.

Was this article funded by big Pharma?

Link to the article in case the anti-science flagging brigade brings it down: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine...

We know there are crazy people out there. We know people have wild ideas and beliefs. Even smart and logical people can latch on to things that seems radical or don't follow common sense. It's part of being human.

The problem we face today is that the we no longer have adults or rational people in the US government. As a nation, the US did an okay-ish job at keeping people like Marjorie Taylor Greene out of government positions. We didn't let people like Musk take control over everything. The writing was on the wall for a while we were headed in this direction. They were quickly gaining ground to take control of everything. The Republican side during the Trump impeachments were a spectacle. There is obviously a very large population in favor of the spectacle.

The US has simply failed repeatedly to get out and vote and keep the wackos out power. Well, here we are. It truly is a shame and we're paying the price.