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You shoudln’t even be entertaining this lunacy with any response. Anything coming out of the RFK jr health department is batshit.

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He was legitimately put into a position of power by the american political system. And this is an article by the BBC, probably the most respected news source on the planet. Crazy is now the norm, the leading voice. It must be confronted.

Your first point is correct, but it (like the second one) has no bearing on the issue of the medical soundness of the department's positions and policy.

But the bbc's reputation does support the facts in the article. I am confident that the stock did drop because of what he said, because i trust the BBC not to make up such things.

I feel the same way, but again, this has no bearing on the issue of the medical soundness of the department's positions and policy.

Going back to the top of this thread, I agree that correlation does not mean causation, but in this case, we do not yet even have a justifiable claim of correlation, and RFK Jr. has repeatedly demonstrated his propensity for substituting unfounded opinion and incorrect data for empirical facts, if it suits his agenda.

"legitimately" is a stretch, given all the information that has come fourth in the past year.

what you resist persists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme-as-reason_effect

Yep, Democratic Party refused to do a real primary so he switched sides

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