He is a paranoid anti-vax crank, but we’ll need to sanitise him to make some sense of the current situation quillette.com/2024/12/03/s... - ThreadSky

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arthurcdent.bsky.social • 167 days ago

He is a paranoid anti-vax crank, but we’ll need to sanitise him to make some sense of the current situation

https://quillette.com/2024/12/03/sanitising-a-paranoid-crank-rfk-trump-hhs/

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husyelt.bsky.social•167 days ago

Persecution complex and grievance mongering forgives all sins

ryan-bruno.bsky.social•167 days ago

Theres a notable subset of commentators who seem preoccupied with making extreme figures seem sane. Either these people are infinitely charitable, or they recognize that theres a big appetite out there for conflating contrarianism w/ critical thinking. Making this your audience is 1.easy 2.lucrative

stucun.bsky.social•167 days ago

Strong detergent will be required.

Still feels surreal he and some of the others are actually going to be nominated. 😬

versamusic.bsky.social•167 days ago

"Kennedy is right that Americans have declining trust in public health institutions"

Why is that? Could it be because contemptible cranks like Kennedy have built lucrative, decades-long careers spreading distrust and misinformation about public health institutions for their own benefit and profit?

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