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.
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zephorah@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 week ago
People like RFK don’t get it. Also, has anyone seen a fucking microchip in a syringe… ever?
zephorah@lemm.ee 1 week 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.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
You can’t see them without a microscope, duhhh.
That’s why they’re called MICRO-chips.
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In the bio hacking world, yea. There are reprogrammable RFID implants that you can get. They are rather large though and kind of suck when trying to use. Check out dangerousthings.com
julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
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.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I appreciate your gratitude and I really do hope it does some good for others… Especially because I really hate needles but I have it done anyway for this reason. Lol 😬
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
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 the would finally start questioning things.
I know I’m wrong, but one can hope can’t they?
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Honestly, some of these pricks could really probably benefit from getting out of their head for a bit lol.
distantsounds@lemmy.world 1 week 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
Kanda@reddthat.com 1 week ago
The thing with psychedelics is that you only see what you bring with you
Mango@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If there’s anything psychedelics do, it’s prompting you to question your existence.
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s the brain worms trying to protect themselves legally from the side effects of having brain worms.
Wojwo@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Stem cells? Does he know what party he’s hitched his wagon to?
booly@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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@midwest.social 1 week 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.
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Consistency? Not even once.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 week ago
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 grey 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!”
mister_flibble@lemm.ee 1 week ago
This is like, one mention of “nuclear wessels” away from being a deleted scene from Star Trek IV.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Roger Payne is right.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
The biggest mistake was the we didn’t nuke the whales.
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
[…] psychedelics […]
I’m glad that it seems like the war on drugs is showing cracks. I completely support a move to legalize psychedelics.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 1 week ago
That’s why it’s included and it’s the first item. To make the rest seem reasonable.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 week ago
The carrot got dangled in front of the US population for decades and now it’s going to be handed out by the guy holding a knife in his other hand.
dolle@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Yes, but it shouldn’t be legalized for the wrong reasons. We used to justify legalization using arguments about personal freedom for recreational use and pushing for more rigorous research into the therapeutic use cases. Now its popularity in the population is just used to push a pseudo-scientific and anti-science agenda.
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Yes, but it shouldn’t be legalized for the wrong reasons.
This is kind of an interesting thought, imo. If one agrees with the resultant policy, does the rationale used to get there matter? Perhaps it does in principle, but I wonder if it matters in practice. The end result is the same.
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean there’s already quite some research with psychedelics showing positive results. Expecting RFK to act on facts and science is wishful thinking. We can just be thankful that his twisted mind aligns with science at least in this position.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Plus, a bunch of conservatives will see the raw milk part and die from listeria. It’s a win-win!
problematicPanther@lemmy.world 1 week ago
but on the plus side, maybe the us can start getting some decent cheeses…
Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A broken clock is right twice a day. A random number generator will also occasionally give you the right answer.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
RFK Jr. about to legalize date rape drugs. Mark. My. Words.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
True story, I went to my doctor about losing some weight as I was close to getting diabetes. For some reason, my doctor loudly proclaimed “Here is a prescription for some meds” while handing me the prescription.
It wasn’t a prescription for meds. My doctor wrote “Due to Big Pharma and the FDA listening in, I have to prescribed various meds. You really should eat healthy diet that has a healthy amount of calories made up of vegetables and fruit. I needed get exercise and should spend time outside to help everything.”
Big Pharma is everywhere! /s
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Don’t give me hope RFK. Like you’re really gonna legalize psychedelics for therapy.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 1 week ago
It would suck for the rubes who can be fooled into taking poison, but it would be kinda based if RFK just legalized everything. Reality might turn to shit, but at least we can get high however we want!
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I wonder how hard it will be to tell the good stuff from the poison. Depending on just how unregulated they go, labels might not even match contents.
Swallowtail@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Being able to grow mushrooms legally would be fucking sick and would make the next four years a bit less shitty.
naun@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, he won’t. Or he might, ostensibly, but they will never be propery researched and they will never be properly regulated, so you won’t really know what you’re getting or how it should be administered, so good luck with that.
The only thing you can reliably count on with the incoming administration is that whatever they are doing, they are doing to make themselves and their friends wealthier, at the expense of the rest of the public. Unfortunately, that doesn’t only mean finacial expense.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Can’t wait for the war on sunshine to end!
burrito@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The solar panels are sucking all the energy from the sun and not allowing anyone else to use it.
Backlog3231@reddthat.com 1 week ago
This is unironically the excuse that my dad gives solar vendors when they badger him about putting solar on his roof. Is it a right wing meme? Please tell me it isn’t.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Ackchyually, I think you’ll find it’s Donald Trump sucking up all the sunlight and injecting it directly into people’s veins
codemankey@programming.dev 1 week ago
Big Sun will get its day in the … eh sun.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
He’s going to ban sunscreen isn’t he
PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The god damn FDA and its war on… …checks notes… Sunshine and Exercise!
veroxii@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Yeah it’s the FDA keeping people from exercising.
What he’s missing is that people who want raw milk are already finding ways to get it. And people who understand the safety issues won’t buy it.
There might be some real self selection and culling of the right wing heard about to happen. Maybe this is for the greater good after all?
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As someone who does performance enhancing substances and has a keen interest in Peptides and Sarms, I believe that some good could come from this.
Lets not pretend that the FDA hasnt created a walled garden with an insanely high barrier of entry for new drugs and compounds. Its prohibitively expensive to develop anything new and interesting. Especially in the space I mentioned where literally thousands of people are doing those drugs every day. But with precious fuckall in the way of actual literature on doses or quality sources.
socsa@piefed.social 1 week ago
Apparently now conservatism is now just constantly relitigating every minor perceived slight.
For the most part, liberals have moved past the fact that these assholes held the country hostage and killed a million people throwing their tantrum.
Meanwhile, conservatives are like "we haven't forgotten that you made fun of us for the horse dewormer thing."
auzy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah. They were pretty adamant lefties were easily triggered a few years ago
Now they believe lefties are destroying the environment, and are having a temper tantrum over a lie as stupid as people eating pets told by a guy who lies about everything
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s okay I’m going to be eating popcorn in Chicago well Florida gets drowned by climate change. And I seriously can’t wait for that day.
Tinidril@midwest.social 1 week ago
Disinformation coming out of the FDA is a real issue though, it’s just that RFK isn’t exactly the person we should want trying to fix it. His list covers the entire spread from significant real issues to batshit crazy conspiracy theory, leaning heavily towards the latter.
It’s notable that the areas in most need of reform were all broken by conservative politicians.
Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Fucking FDA and big Pharma having a stranglehold on vitamins, exercise and su-…and …sunshine…
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
[…] 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.
ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Dumbfucks wanted this.
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
[…] raw milk […]
I’d support this 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.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 1 week 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
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Speaking of raw milk, bird flu has just been disovered in it. Buckle up, the next pandemic is coming. Maybe it will go down in history as the MAGA flu.
banana_lama@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Oh no it’s the Sun everybody run inside -the FDA probably
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
im okay with ending the war on psychedelics though.
not for everyone but also not worth hunting and jailing people for.
fuck off with all the pseudoscientific garbage.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 week 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.
Soup@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
Dude needs to take his Sméagol-sounding ass back to Middle Earth and leave science to those who hat the least have a rudimentary knowledge of it.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh good they listed them all in one place so if a doctor references it I know to just get up and walk the fuck out.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And a healthy swig of bleach for good measure. Cheers!
_bcron_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
stem cells
Evangelicals: I think you’re getting ahead of yourself
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
fucking morons are going to kill us all with raw stupidity
TheDoctor@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Can’t wait for deregulation to result in a tech bro reinvesting his Facebook money into an Uber But For Psychedelics startup that incentivizes mixing 9% more sawdust into my shrooms to maximize yield
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Thoughts and prayers, America.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
“ivermectin”
aka, the horse paste Trump pushed on us during the covid outbreak.
CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Damn that FDA and their suppression of…*checks list…sunshine?
Was the solar eclipse an inside job?!?
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It’s Vitamin D. There was this whole thing during the COVID pandemic about how the FDA/CDC were SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET about how impactful Vitamin D levels were on COVID outcomes or something and how that’s how you know that… something something sinister ulterior motives.
So like the idea was that everybody going outside and getting some sun was actually the best thing for public health, but THEY were telling you to languish inside under lockdowns, because clearly they didn’t want you to be healthy.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 week ago
There was a finding a few years ago that while preventing skin cancer, sunscreen was also causing people in some places to get less vitamin d which was increasing instances of colon cancer. The solution isn’t banning sunscreen, it’s making sure people get some small amount of sun or supplements vitamin d.
Being from Oz I never really considered issues with vitamin d until I moved to the UK for a few years and discovered that limited vitamin d is a real problem in winter. Im not sure on the deficiency you need for colon cancer but a few weeks of little to no Sun really messes with your head and body.
Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
To be fair, non-mineral sunscreens do fuck with your hormones. Still better then skin cancer though.
grue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 week ago
When was the last time your big FDA doctor told you to sun your butthole? Why would they hide that from you?
meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because your dermatologist isn’t used to checking for skin cancer where the sun don’t shine.
Ixoid@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Regrettably, ‘perineum sunning’ is actually a thing. sciencealert.com/perineum-sunning-isn-t-the-answe…
FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 1 week ago
They hate sunscreen because skin cancer good apparently
ObamnaSoda@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Image
FDA agent mr snrub
strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
HAARP
huf@hexbear.net 1 week ago
i think he’s referring to the butthole sunners