As if things couldn't get worse, we have two quack pots in charge of the nation's health. Trump announced he’s nominating Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Imagine that? Dr. Oz and tin foil hat conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. together is scary. The guy has been rebuked by medical professionals for his quackery advice about food, fad diets, and dietary supplements. He has admitted there’s no science behind many of his claims, but still describes the products as “miraculous” to hopeful consumers who look to him as an authority. I'm sure he got big kudos for his appearances on Fox News during the pandemic when he talked up the potential effectiveness of the anti-Malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a way to treat the coronavirus .
I'm not the only one who notices how different our conservative leaning posters react to women expressing opinions here. Like there is weird energy with you guys and how you respond to her posts. Not once have I seen a right leaning poster here respond to here addressing what she is exactly typing that you guys occasionally do for the other 99% of dude posters. Like you guys will occasionally engage in good faith with our replies but always do this dismissive thing with her. Can you guys explain this and no I'm not imagining it? Are you guys just not used to women with opinions?
Trumps is a very tv oriented person. He decides who are experts based on the cable news media he consumes. Hegseth, Oz etc... These are all examples of a old man who understands the world through cable tv. A lot of Trump's inner circle are very skilled in understanding how to butter up Trump also except Elon who is bad with social ques unless its convincing other venture capitalists he's a genius. Venture Capitalists apparently have this idea that someone expressing neurodivergent behavior is automatically a genius. SBF took advantage of this phenomenon also.
I think he's upset that Deb made an overlapping thread with his "T-Dog choices/appointees" thread. You have to understand that, naturally, the success of the threads we make are where we get our self-worth in this world, and this thread is fundamentally a threat to him.
Dr Oz is one of the smartest people on this planet. He's a cardiothoracic surgeon who has pioneered novel approaches to heart surgery and heart transplants. He was the first to use robotics in repairing heart valves -- which was a game changing breakthrough. To smear him as a quack is just absurd... and speaks to the OP's ignorance.
Just before RFK Jr;s Senate Confirmation hearing, Caroline Kennedy (JFK's daugther and RFK Jr's cousin) Breaks Her Silence on Cousin RFK Jr., blasting Him as 'Predator', asserting him as addicted to attention and power and ultimately “unqualified” to shape the nation's health policy. Caroline went on to criticize her cousin’s vocal conspiratorial crusade against vaccinations, saying that Bobby “preys on the desperation of parents of sick children” by advocating against scientifically sound vaccines while vaccinating his own kids. She also added that his anti-vaccination efforts demonstrate that he “is willing to profit and enrich himself”, as evidenced by his financial stake in the litigation against Merck, a manufacturer of a vaccine that protects against HPV, even as he ascends to the presidential Cabinet as health secretary.
This is scary stuff. I included a few exerpts from the article. Putting a flat out liar and conspiracy theorist in charge of our nation's health is stupid, dangerous, and reckless. Patty Murray: RFK Jr. meeting was most troubling she’s had in 32 years Murray, who has been in the Senate for 32 years, said her talk with Kennedy was the single most troubling meeting she’s ever had with a Cabinet nominee. “I walked out from my meeting with him because he threw out so many nonsense, nonsensical questions and statements that it was head-spinning,” Murray said. In public confirmation hearings last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the nation’s health agencies, confirmed that he said Lyme disease is highly likely an engineered bioweapon, refused to say that vaccines don’t cause autism and stumbled to identify the basic aspects of Medicare and Medicaid. The claim about Lyme disease is a decades-old conspiracy theory, dozens of studies have shown no link between vaccines and autism and Medicare and Medicaid are multitrillion-dollar programs that Kennedy would oversee. Among the claims Kennedy made, according to Murray: He said 99% of COVID deaths were in people who were vitamin D deficient; he said we “haven’t done safety studies on vaccines”; and he said “there is an entire generation of damaged children.” “I’m looking at him and as I challenge him, he doesn’t flinch, he just leaned into all of these outrageous claims,” Murray said. “I was really stunned. Murray said in her meeting she presented Kennedy with a number of his past statements and rather than defend or retract the statements he simply denied making them. She said she asked about his statement that he would fire 600 people from the National Institutes of Health on Day One of the Trump administration. “He said, ‘Oh, I didn’t say that,'” Murray said. “And I’m sitting there looking at a quote that he said it. So it was the most bizarre, unbelievable way for anybody to present themselves as somebody that was legitimate and qualified.” Kennedy, at an event in Arizona after the election in November, said: “We need to act fast, and we want to have those people in place on Jan. 20 so that on Jan. 21, 600 people are going to walk into offices at NIH, and 600 people are going to leave.” https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...ting-was-most-troubling-shes-had-in-32-years/
RFK Jr is going to lead a health push that threatens the profits of the drug companies. There is no faster way to incur the wrath of Democrat politicians than to threaten their golden goose. Also, who do you want to take health advice from? RFK, who is 70 y/o and insanely fit? Or Patty Murray, pictured below in blue, who looks like Grimace.
Not the man telling me that my pain is different and not as painful as the pain of people with less melanin than me That guy needs to stay the F away from all my health care decisions and policiies BTW - Didn't he like mainline Heroine for like 20 yrs? Elon does Ketamine WTF is going on with Crack heads at the top? Rocket River
How on earth did you turn this into a racial thing? Wow. It's sad actually that your decision-making is dominated by this issue -- such a success killer.
