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"Science isn't political!"

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    doesn’t harm organic tissue

    Which is totally why Bayer has settled their lawsuit for several billions of dollars over claims that it causes lymphoma.

    Edit: also, plants are organic tissue.

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      Also, the stomach’s microbiome isn’t plants…

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    Your stomach microbiome is plants

    Which is why I spend a solid 3 hours a day facing the sun with my mouth held wide open. Gotta let my tummy plants photosynthesize somehow.

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      You say that as a joke but I’m pretty sure this clown is also one of the quacks who regularly talked about the “health benefits” of butthole tanning.

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        I once saw him (in person) give a drunken, sloppy, rambling speech to a bunch of high schoolers back in 1999. Calling him a clown is an insult to clowns.

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    Bacteria is not in the kingdom plantae.

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      Your stomach micro biome is plants.

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        That’s interesting. I wonder where the sunlight gets in to my stomach for all those plants to photosynthesize.

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          Rfk seems to think the sun shines out his asshole.

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            He thinks so, but, no that’s just a mysterious emissive liquid that he drinks every morning.

            “We all need sunshine”

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          supposing you brought the light inside of the body

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          That’s why you’re sick. You need to constantly be in the sun without sunscreen, look at RFK jr’s healthy glow as a good example of prime health.

          If you’re not feeding your tummy plants with the sunlight it needs you’re not living healthy.

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            your sick

            your not feeding

            your not living

            “You’re” means “you are”. “Your” means “belonging to you”.

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              “my sick?”

            • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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              Thanks, I forget to proofread my comments

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            Vampires are about to start a protest.

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            hes overbaked from the tanning salon.

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          You eat it, duh!

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          Drink Capri Sun and sunny d

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          That’s why you have to occasionally stick your arse in the air on a sunny day. Do it near a school or local park. You’ll be fine, if anyone asks tell them JFK said to.

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            *RFK

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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          Use the same covid UV lamp as was inserted in 2020.

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        Non organic plants at that

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      Funny that in Spanish it’s called “flora intestinal”, not “fauna intestinal”. Always though that it’s a but of a misnomer.

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        Intestinal flora is a common phrase in English, too. Or “gut flora”. It’s one of those old 19th century scientific phrases which has stuck around.

        Like this, err, gentleman (who apparently wants to drag us back to that past) we used to believe gut bacteria to be plant-based. Science caught up, but the term has had sticking power. It seems to be a favorite of marketers of probiotic supplements.

        “Microbiota” or just the straightforward “gut bacteria” would be more accurate and modern. But of course, everyone except for this guy already knows that.

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          Did he read/hear about gut flora somewhere, and get his eggs scrambled?

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          there is valid science in gut microbiome, the Pseudoscience take on is, the "leaky gut, or inflammatory diet bs.

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        We also just call it “gut flora” in english too

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      Funny that you believe RFK Jr believes in bacteria. Dude doesn’t believe in germ theory

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        Well it’s only a theory has anyone actually met a germ?

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          Germs are just dirty microscopes. Have you ever seen one with the naked eye?

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          There’s a whole country

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      this is the best response ✅

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    Sometimes I have this weird theory that RFK Jr is really like a Dr. Zoidberg type alien in a skin suit. He just kind of guesses at how human anatomy works because he isn’t human himself and isn’t professional enough to get a real education on the subject.

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      “I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar”

      – RFK jr

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      At least Zoidberg means well, RFK Jr. has more in common with the brain slugs or the gas station egg salad sandwiches

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        If it’s his brain worms speaking, that would explain a lot.

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      It’s hard to say what’s more farfetched, that he is a Zoidbergian alien, or that The Kennedys were just raised that far from any level of anything resembling actual human reality?

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        heredetary power is a form of abuse.

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      Here’s the new theory I’m pushing:

      Have you ever seen RFK in the same room as the Necronomicon? Just something to think about.

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      Eerily accurate

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      well actually the aliens in the MIB controlling the meat suit.

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    He contradicts himself even in his own wacky theories

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      Considering wacky theories have a tendency to contradict each other (and itself) it would be far more impressive if his wacky theories weren’t contradictory.

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    I can’t tell if this is supposed to be for or against glyphosate?

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      Depends who is making money.

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      He seems to be… pro-celiac?

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        Real red blooded manly Americans only eat the rawest red meat directly from the carcas and have no need to worry about celiac disease like some girly communist liberal soy boy would.

        /s

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          Hmm gluten free mettbrötchen

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      Same! If it’s an errant argument against glyphosate, I guess I’ll take it? Or is it a stance that celiac is no big deal and we should put more glyphosate in our food?

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    I remember that when Roundup first came out, glyphosate was being held up as a brilliant example of herbicide design since it inhibits a vital metabolic pathway in plants that animals don’t have. They even claimed that the surfactants in Roundup were more harmful than the glyphosate itself. I guess that claim didn’t hold up too well.

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      some weeds already have become resistant to it, not all but sooner or later more and more will be selected for it.

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    One with frontotemporal dementia that has rapidly shrinking brain, the other one with half a brain eaten by the worm… in what fucking timeline do we live… feels like Rick and Morty episode… fuck. me.

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      destroyed by HEROIN worms.

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        Heroin-fueled brain worms, allegedly contracted from (knowingly and voluntarily) eating rotten meat on a semi regular basis*

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          he did train an falcon to bring him RATS to eat.

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      The timeline where Americans collectively lose their minds and make shit loads of money uploading youtube videos about it.

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    " it is unequivocal that exposure to glyphosate produces important alterations in the structure and function of the nervous system of humans, rodents, fish, and invertebrates."

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35562999/

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      Glyphosate has also been linked to gluten intolerance: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3945755/

      Maybe at some point, all the “gluten free” products will switch to “glyphosate free”. Until then, I’ve been buying imported flour from Italy, where its use is significantly more regulated than here in the US, although not entirely banned.

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      So following this logic, am I a plant?

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        Who told you to say that‽

        Who do you work for!?!

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    Everything is political, and there has never been a time that proves that better than now.

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      The fact that all of a sudden writing with a Sharpie is a political statement is baffling.

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    Of course science is political. Knowledge is power and all power systems are political.

    But ignoring philosophy, Science is a charity. By in large they must beg for their money. You don’t suppose that the people providing the money have any influence?

    And I’m not talking about junk science, biased studies, or even fraud. A perfectly run study may still be political simply because it was chosen for funding over something else.

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      It’s a little more complex than that. Some things:

      • https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/09/02/book-review-dark-academia-how-universities-die-by-peter-fleming/
      • https://massivesci.com/articles/chaos-in-the-brickyard-comic-matteo-farinella/

      It’s a structural problem, but still the same problem plaguing the rest of society at the moment.

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        It looks like you all snuffed some TetraFunkoTetris

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      By in large

      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by_and_large

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    Awfully big words, for someone who doesn’t believe in germ theory.

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      holup, what? This guy is working on Victorian era medical knowledge? Is his idol Robert Liston??

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        Theodoric of York.

        You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought a disease like your daughter’s was caused by demonic possession or witchcraft. But nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in her stomach.

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          It’s always gratifying to see another “old person” in the comments. 😃

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            I’m not old. I work out in my jeans.

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              But do you wear an onion on your belt? 😃

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        Who would’ve predicted modern toxic bro culture leading to the resurfacing of miasma theory? But at this point I wouldn’t be surprised to hear him start talking about imbalances of black bile and phlegm.

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    As if denying millions of Americans access to proper healthcare wasn’t enough, they appointed an anti-science, anti-vaxx idiot as if to make sure even more harm would be inflicted on them.

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    Sounds legit. Where do I sign up for my glyphosate injections?

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