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>> I was under the impression he was a nut thx to the headlines that pepper the American media landscape until I watched most of his Town Hall the other night.
by dralley 3y ago
>> I was under the impression he was a nut thx to the headlines that pepper the American media landscape until I watched most of his Town Hall the other night.
He thinks HIV is not the cause of AIDS.
- TeeMassive 3y agoWhy do you think that would make him less of a good choice than the other main presidential candidates?
- topynate 3y agoThabo Mbeki had the same view and that didn't exactly work out great for South Africa.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoA person not understanding the limits of their intellect and not deferring to subject matter experts makes for a bad leader.
- throwawaysleep 3y agoI want my leaders to live in reality.
- TeeMassive 3y agoSure, but again I said compared to the other main candidates. Biden is obviously not there mentally and Trump is living in his own ego.
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- dekhn 3y agoI think at this point if you say "I question the scientific community so much that I can't really believe HIV causes AIDS" that sort of falls close to flat earth conspiracy theorists. The difference being the flat earth folks would be able to falsify their "theory" by just flying straight for n,000 miles, you'd be injecting yourself with pure HIV virus to establish that you didn't get AIDS.
- kolanos 3y ago> In his book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the War on Democracy and Public Health, Kennedy says he takes "no position on the relationship between HIV and AIDS"," [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.
- enragedcacti 3y agoSorry it seems like you miscopied the quote and left off this clause starting with "but": > , but he spends over a hundred pages quoting HIV denialists such as Peter Duesberg who question the isolation of HIV and the etiology of AIDS.[269] Kennedy himself refers to the "orthodoxy that HIV alone causes AIDS",[252]: 348 and the "theology that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS",[252]: 351 as well as repeating the HIV/AIDS denialist false claim that no one has isolated the HIV particle and "No one has been able to point to a study that demonstrates their hypothesis using accepted scientific proofs".
- dekhn 3y agoThat HIV causes AIDS is almost certainly true came from overwhelming evidence from multiple angles, not from some sort of "scientific proof". Realistically there is no such thing as scientific proof- just "enough evidence that making the alternative case requires extraordinary evidence and predictive ability". What I don't like is that Kennedy is trying to place a pseudoscientific veneer over a conspiracy theory idea, sort of "oh hey it looks like the science is still up in the air". If somebody were to convincingly demonstrate that HIV didn't cause AIDS, it would rewrite large sections of many textbooks.
- kolanos 3y agoI was responding to your claim that "he thinks", not the claim that all these other scientists that he covers in a book think. Anthony Fauci used to spread misinformation about AIDS, too. [0] [0]: https://www.yahoo.com/video/video-resurfaces-fauci-warning-household-180945365.html https://www.yahoo.com/video/video-resurfaces-fauci-warning-h...
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