"...our understanding of (RFK Jr.'s) disbelief in germ theory (is) based on Kennedy's own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled 'Miasma vs. Germ Theory,' in the chapter 'The White Man's Burden.'" 🛟🧪😷 medsky - ThreadSky

rmcarpiano.medsky.social • 1 day ago

"...our understanding of (RFK Jr.'s) disbelief in germ theory (is) based on Kennedy's own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled 'Miasma vs. Germ Theory,' in the chapter 'The White Man's Burden.'" 🛟🧪😷 medsky

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innhverfur.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dear lord, what have we let in. 😨 What next, Lysenkoism?

landisr.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think we might be there already.

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•1 day ago

Sort of... https://www.realclearscience.com/2025/04/01/make_america_healthy_again_the_new_lysenkoism_1101157.html

andresantos87.bsky.social•1 day ago

First "germ theory" my ass, when you guys put "theory" you are enabling this asshole; he doesn't believe in germs.

woollahra.bsky.social•1 day ago

RFKism is the new Lysenkoism

han-shot-first.bsky.social•1 day ago

A lot to unpack here..

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•1 day ago

You ain't kidding.

wadewarrens.bsky.social•1 day ago

"He holds these beliefs like a religious conviction," Offit said.

The entire US government is in the hands of religious fanatics, and the Judeo-Christian project will not come out unscathed.

stevemur67.bsky.social•1 day ago

A chapter entitled ‘the white man’s burden’ in a book promoting (amongst other hysteria) the theory of miasma, should have been a four alarm red flag to Congress that the author was unfit to run an out-house.

uncannyval3.bsky.social•1 day ago

Couldn’t run a whelk stall, as we say in 🇬🇧.

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•1 day ago

💯 To be fair though, who has the stamina to get that far into any book he's written? Hiding in plain sight and yet also buried at the bottom of a dark well.

Must admit I feel validated learning abt this chapter: I've long thought some positions of his seemed to embody a White Man's Burden view.

stevemur67.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was very clear,the moment trump administration were informed covid 19 disproportionately adversely affected people of colour,that the president +his cult would ‘bare any burden’,to see it spread across the USA.

RFK jnr is tasked to promote a modern ‘Smallpox laced blanket’ pubic health policy.

stevemur67.bsky.social•1 day ago

The stench of eugenics has infused the entire MAGA movement since their argument that ‘people died with,rather than of, COVID’.
They completely accepted the proposition that some people didn’t deserve a right to protection.Their movement rejects ‘elbows up’ generosity.

For them, always ’masks off’

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•1 day ago

You see it in the antivax movement pre-COVID too, especially in discussions about autism.

annaliisavilppu.bsky.social•1 day ago

You have to some times wonder if Trump doesn’t have a wager on which one of his cabinet members will kill the most people before the year is out.

picklesofthecanoe.bsky.social•1 day ago

So is it the heroin? The worm? Inbreeding? All of the above?

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•1 day ago

🤷

sugarfoot57.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's mentally ill, it's why he was chosen. Felon47 wants genocide of the current population and babies so they can indoctrinate them. And Republican Congress is going along with it.

pastapete.bsky.social•1 day ago

What a lunatic!!
#ClownKennedyJr

tellthetruth69.bsky.social•1 day ago

mistyskai.bsky.social•12 hours ago

And we're meant to believe an ignorant fool who's not even a qualified doctor. Ya right

thevaccinationstation.org•1 day ago

I read Kennedy's book, and wrote a rebuttal.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Defence-Fauci-David-J-Burke-ebook/dp/B0CW1CCQLV

betterpolo.bsky.social•1 day ago

A terrifying article, thanks for sharing. I would like to read the whole chapter but no way am I paying even a penny for it.

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•1 day ago

Here's more on the terrain theory he endorses in his book: https://www.popsci.com/health/germ-theory-terrain-theory/

betterpolo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks Richard will take a look. I was aware of miasma (thanks in large part to Steven Johnson's excellent The Ghost Map) but terrain theory is new to me. Maybe overlaps with the way certain wellness folk went during covid.

jazzzzzy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Evil

alecvictor.bsky.social•22 hours ago

So we are back to four humors, or are we adopting chackras?

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•19 hours ago

🤷

eberhardt1.bsky.social•1 day ago

We reject him

builtstrong.bsky.social•1 day ago

These guys (RFK & DT) must have a pretty tight NDA between them. They are both unhinged. This stuff is nuts.

vicindigocharlie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hilarious and utterly tragic. What an idiot.

dennyfag2015.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s because he’s an idiot.

theonlyrealtmcmaui.bsky.social•1 day ago

That worm isn't dead afterall.

ryanwalters.bsky.social•1 day ago

*Nazi eugenicist RFK jr.

moketchup.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is he still using?

collaterly.bsky.social•1 day ago

I gleefully refuse these people any stated subjectivity. RFK JR is a barely sapient murderer, he does not believe anything. He says whatever helps him keep killing

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•1 day ago

(cont'd) Malcolm Gladwell has a terrific podcast episode on this. Remarkably, he read most/all of Kennedy's book.

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•1 day ago

(cont'd) Nice summary here of terrain theory, Duchamp's rivalry with Pasteur, and the modern day adaptation/contortion of it by germ-theory denier subculture. sociology

https://www.popsci.com/health/germ-theory-terrain-theory/

eternalcatwar.bsky.social•1 day ago

I thank him for his service

rmcarpiano.medsky.social•1 day ago

That should count as a step towards sainthood.

batronin573.bsky.social•1 day ago

History will not be kind to him.

mdpspucky.bsky.social•1 day ago

RFKJr is a fkg fraud and is not worthy of having anything to do with public health. He will be responsible for the harm to the health of Americans. There's no immunity in store for RFKJr.

marisa1889.bsky.social•18 hours ago

FFS.

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