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Who do you think makes ivermectin!? How many gazillions of dollars is the supplement industry worth? RFK is out here saying that he is the only person saying people should exercise when every doctor on the goddamn planet is already saying that.
The Department of Health has indeed done a profound amount of damage to the worm community, as well as the wider infectious disease community, over the past thirty years.
As for covid vax efficacy: there is lots of non government research showing its efficacy.
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The current system has a lot of problems, but it can get much worse. We could end up with everything that's wrong with the current system plus more acceptance of crackpot bullshit.
One of the key problems with populism is that while discontent with the establishment is often justified, populists overestimate how easy things are to fix and lack the expertise to judge alternatives. If you look around the world at revolutions, most of the time they result in things getting worse not better. It's much easier to break things than fix them.
Quantum mechanics didn't really gain ascendancy until the old guard of physicists died off. There are examples in every field. Like hand washing for surgeons. Like digital cameras vs film. Like personal computers vs mainframes. Automobiles vs horses. Democracy vs monarchy. Aircraft carriers vs battleships.
I don't know much about RFK. But disruption now and then in conventional ways of doing things is often for the better.
Was there a lot of grumbling, whining, and bitching? Yeah probably. Who cares?
> But disruption now and then in conventional ways of doing things is often for the better.
"We need some disruption!" shout the people who (believe that they) will not suffer the consequences of disruption.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
I present to you Ignaz Semmelweis, the physician who introduced hand washing.
> Despite his research, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis allegedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his colleagues. In the asylum, he was beaten by the guards. He died 14 days later from a gangrenous wound on his right hand that may have been caused by the beating.
I wanted to post a comment about how he was ostracized by the community, but turns out, he literally died for handwashing to become mainstream.
I remember when the government confidently told us that eggs were bad, butter was bad, cereal was good.
Now eggs are good, butter is good, cereal is bad.
Alcohol was bad, then it was good, now it's bad again.
It doesn’t help that as I outline elsewhere, such outsiders are the preferred actors by people who feel they won’t have to deal with the fallout. People on private insurance aren’t afraid of the government cratering Medicare, because they don’t need it. Let’s be super clear about something else; if you’re okay with unqualified idiots fucking about with systems neither they or you understand simply because you won’t lose anything, you are not pro-disruption. You’re just selfish.