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Removing dyes and healthier food in general is one of RFK's stated goals so they'd call this a win. You need better news sources.

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It’s not always easy to keep up with the Republicans’ evolving positions.

For the past century, they told everyone that it was none of the government’s business what people choose to eat. Now it suddenly is.

It does have a whiff of trying to mold the citizenry towards a physical ideal. Fitter, happier, more masculine energy.

My favorite is the matrix-like maneuvering about taxes. Now excise taxes and tariffs are cool. But "death tax", income tax, social security tax -- that's communist.

This is the old "at least Hitler made the trains run on time" thing again.

I'm all for removing dyes from food, but if the tradeoff is bringing back polio, no thanks.

Wasn't that said of Benito Mussolini?

Maybe? I wouldn't think that changes the point much.

RFK is absolutely right on a few things, but that doesn't make him an automatic force for good.

It seems the group that is 'all about science' doesn't want to investigate big pharma. It's a strange world.

see: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/7190377...

I read about this right before covid in Wired magazine. Now, they lick the assholes of all the big pharma companies and anyone wanting more science are 'deniers', turning it into a relgion.

It seems like the Philippine government and WHO are at fault here, rather than Sanofi

That looks like a successfully investigated case? With an appropriate mitigation found and implemented? And a worst-case scenario of “still 12x fewer hospitalizations than without the vaccine”?

No it's not - the topic is healthier food. If someone said "I bet Hitler[0] will reverse this thing that makes trains run on time" and someone said "actually Hitler loves trains running on time", that would be a fair response.

This is the old "the person my news sources repeatedly tell me to dislike is like Hitler".

[0] Mussolini, no?

> No it's not - the topic is healthier food.

The topic is also RFK and his views, which include quite prominent anti-vaccine activism.

I don't see that in the comment chain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712142

> Removing dyes and healthier food in general is one of RFK's stated goals

Yes, but if it's one of his goals, then bringing him in isn't going to reverse it.

He's both a "no dyes in food" activist and a "vaccines bad" activist. Both are goals of his.

I'd rather have vaccines and dyes than no vaccines and no dyes.

Okay, but that seems irrelevant to this thread. What you're getting is RFK, and he doesn't like dyes in food. So as I understand it the original claim is false, and that's all this thread is trying to address.

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