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> Id encourage people to read RFKs book […] Is this the book where he denies the HIV-AIDS link? > In his book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma,

> Id encourage people to read RFKs book […] Is this the book where he denies the HIV-AIDS link? > In his book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the War on Democracy and Public Health, Kennedy writes that he takes "no position on the relationship between HIV and AIDS,"[292]: 347 but spends over 100 pages quoting HIV denialists such as Peter Duesberg who question the isolation of HIV and the etiology of AIDS.[311] Kennedy refers to the "orthodoxy that HIV alone causes AIDS"[292]: 348 and the "theology that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS,"[292]: 351 and repeats the false HIV/AIDS denialist 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.": 348 He also repeats the false claim that the early AIDS drug AZT is "absolutely fatal"[292]: 332 due to its "horrendous toxicity."[292]: 298 Molecular biologist Dan Wilson points out that Kennedy falsely claims that Luc Montagnier, the discoverer of HIV, was a "convert" to Duesberg's fringe hypothesis. Wilson concludes that Kennedy is a "full blown" HIV/AIDS denialist.[311][292] Epidemiologist Tara C. Smith suggests that Kennedy's book "even flirts with outright germ theory denial," quoting a portion where Kennedy contrasts germ theory with terrain theory.[312] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#HIV/AIDS_denialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#HIV/AIDS...

lazyeye 2y ago
What I see from this is a person that has seen so much malfeasance and corruption right across the health sector that he maintains an open mind on issues and reflexively questions the status quo. But of course, any mention of something outside the bounds of conventional thought is immediately "RFK is an xxxx-denier!!!" People are so desperate to attack the credibility of RFK, to defend the status quo but have nothing to say about the govt institutions that in recent decades, have overseen an utterly, catastrophic failure in their duties. 60% of adults in the US now have chronic disease (60% percent!!!!!) https://www.statista.com/topics/8951/chronic-disease-prevention-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/topics/8951/chronic-disease-prevent...
- throw0101b 2y ago
  > People are so desperate to attack the credibility of RFK, to defend the status quo but have nothing to say about the govt institutions that in recent decades, have overseen an utterly, catastrophic failure in their duties. Perhaps he should then focus on the pertinent issues of improving institutions and forget about things that are the medical equivalent of Flat Earth theory. Appointing a Flat Earther to NASA, or a Young Earther to the US Geological Survey, would be roughly equivalent to what is happening with RFK. > 60% of adults in the US now have chronic disease (60% percent!!!!!) https://www.statista.com/topics/8951/chronic-disease-prevention-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/topics/8951/chronic-disease-prevent... Yeah, first sentence in your link: > The CDC estimates that six in ten adults in the United States currently live with a chronic disease such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes. For the latter two: perhaps they should eat less garbage (food is relatively cheap in the US (which can be a good thing), but it makes it easier to overdue it) and exercise more (which is harder to do when you have to drive everywhere). For the first: maybe the US should get a health (insurance) system that isn't so crazy, so less-preventable diseases (like cancer) aren't so traumatic, cost-wise. Of course the GOP has tried to get rid of the largest improvement (the ACA/Obamacare) in decades.
  - lazyeye 2y ago
    I dunno....I am happy to give him a go. If 60% of NASA rockets were blowing up on launch for decades, arguing for continuing the status quo is not rational. People are tired of "respectable mediocrity" where leaders make all the right speeches, express all the right concerns but nothing changes, nothing improves, ever. We need an outsider to come in and shake things up. Even if RFK crashes and burns he will still at least have reset the agenda on health in a way not seen for a very long time. And its impossible for anyone (even a trained chimpanzee) to do worse than the current leadership in this area.

lazyeye 2y ago

What I see from this is a person that has seen so much malfeasance and corruption right across the health sector that he maintains an open mind on issues and reflexively questions the status quo. But of course, any mention of something outside the bounds of conventional thought is immediately "RFK is an xxxx-denier!!!" People are so desperate to attack the credibility of RFK, to defend the status quo but have nothing to say about the govt institutions that in recent decades, have overseen an utterly, catastrophic failure in their duties. 60% of adults in the US now have chronic disease (60% percent!!!!!) https://www.statista.com/topics/8951/chronic-disease-prevention-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/topics/8951/chronic-disease-prevent...

throw0101b 2y ago
> People are so desperate to attack the credibility of RFK, to defend the status quo but have nothing to say about the govt institutions that in recent decades, have overseen an utterly, catastrophic failure in their duties. Perhaps he should then focus on the pertinent issues of improving institutions and forget about things that are the medical equivalent of Flat Earth theory. Appointing a Flat Earther to NASA, or a Young Earther to the US Geological Survey, would be roughly equivalent to what is happening with RFK. > 60% of adults in the US now have chronic disease (60% percent!!!!!) https://www.statista.com/topics/8951/chronic-disease-prevention-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/topics/8951/chronic-disease-prevent... Yeah, first sentence in your link: > The CDC estimates that six in ten adults in the United States currently live with a chronic disease such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes. For the latter two: perhaps they should eat less garbage (food is relatively cheap in the US (which can be a good thing), but it makes it easier to overdue it) and exercise more (which is harder to do when you have to drive everywhere). For the first: maybe the US should get a health (insurance) system that isn't so crazy, so less-preventable diseases (like cancer) aren't so traumatic, cost-wise. Of course the GOP has tried to get rid of the largest improvement (the ACA/Obamacare) in decades.
- lazyeye 2y ago
  I dunno....I am happy to give him a go. If 60% of NASA rockets were blowing up on launch for decades, arguing for continuing the status quo is not rational. People are tired of "respectable mediocrity" where leaders make all the right speeches, express all the right concerns but nothing changes, nothing improves, ever. We need an outsider to come in and shake things up. Even if RFK crashes and burns he will still at least have reset the agenda on health in a way not seen for a very long time. And its impossible for anyone (even a trained chimpanzee) to do worse than the current leadership in this area.