Everyone going, "RFK Jr is against Big Pharma!" should maybe acknowledge that he's staunchly pro Big Supplement. - ThreadSky

michaelhobbes.bsky.social • 101 days ago

Everyone going, "RFK Jr is against Big Pharma!" should maybe acknowledge that he's staunchly pro Big Supplement.

Just in case anybody has doubts about what "Make America Healthy Again" really means, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. filed a trademark request to use the slogan to market supplements, essential oils & cryptocurrency. Scammity scam-scam scamming scammer. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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revolvolution.bsky.social•101 days ago

Sure, essential oils and supplements are core to the wellness grifter approach to healthcare, but how does cryptocurrency make you healthy? Is this because RFKjr plans to force insurers to cover supplements and accept dogecoin for copayments?

rowyourbot.bsky.social•101 days ago

That’s it. That’s the whole key to the guy. He found a brand, and he made it profitable, because there’s a whole infrastructure of grift he can cash in on that’s basically doing the same thing.

wienerking.bsky.social•101 days ago

The public as a whole though is very pro sketchy supplements so that messaging isn't going to work.

People like to feel that they're controlling their health all on their own, supplements provide them that feeling. And they get defensive over their spending $70/mo for placebos.

womblingeast.bsky.social•101 days ago

Especially in the US where access to healthcare is unaffordable for many. Desperation will make you believe the lies about benefits of untested supplements and health protocols…

wienerking.bsky.social•101 days ago

Crap like Prevagen and Neuriva can be $70/bottle. Supplements aren't cheaper.

I've seen people paying $100/mo for freaking calcium supplements. People are literally the "help me with my budget, I buy $3k of candles" meme with this crap.

wienerking.bsky.social•101 days ago

Look at pro athletes who insist on taking BS supplements despite being warned repeatedly of the risk they may be adulterated with PEDs, and they will get popped for it.

People are idiots with supplements.

priyachand.bsky.social•101 days ago

billions of dollars in a nearly completely unregulated industry but they can't be lying because they use words like "organic" and "healthy"

muteki-ish.bsky.social•100 days ago

soon: HHS keeps its acronym but now refers to "herbalife and homeopathic services"

everythingisph.bsky.social•101 days ago

If only more people have critical thinking skills

davidandrews.bsky.social•101 days ago

He’s pro big pharma! Without them his shakedown racket isn’t worth much and he’d lose several million $$$$ in annual income.

stochasticooze.bsky.social•101 days ago

Hitler banned smoking. Terrible people can occasionally have good ideas. Doesn't stop them from being terrible people.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•101 days ago

He doesn’t have any good ideas. He says a few obvious things (his favorites ones that are connected to some kind of denigration, and fantasy of superiority, like about junk food or weight, drug addicts he wants to make concentration camps for), pesticides (duh) and uses it for cover. Not his ideas.

stochasticooze.bsky.social•101 days ago

My point was that just because you agree with someone on one or two issues doesn't mean you should give them a pass. That's something that happens with a lot of public figures, not just this jerkoff.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•101 days ago

A good point but I think the identification with him is a the fantasy of superiority, of being special—not merely that they agree with an idea. They project things onto him. It’s cult of personality stuff.

bowser1805.bsky.social•100 days ago

Pro Big Boner Pills

kansasblueblood.bsky.social•101 days ago

Injecting meme coins directly into my veins to ward off resurgent tuberculosis

ouisghianzodahs.bsky.social•101 days ago

pro *unregulated* Big Supplement. Who needs the pesky FDA monitoring ingredients and claims, and who says they can't type "not FDA approved" in a font barely visible?

fffanatic06.bsky.social•101 days ago

Big Supplement which can just flood the market with any stupid bullshit without having to publish any tests or studies first.

alwayssunny17.bsky.social•101 days ago

I worked for a supplement company and I read a LOT of NCBI/NIH studies and my main takeaway was that most of the touted "benefits" of even the most common supplements are fringe results if not happy coincidences.

shanonnebo.bsky.social•101 days ago

Big Supplement: All the money without any of that pesky regulation!

andrewcarl.bsky.social•101 days ago

Can't believe we're doing "Andrew Wakefield Again But Dumber"

melico.bsky.social•101 days ago

Pretty sure whatever he's been injecting for his gender affirming care was made by big pharma, though possibly not as intended

brendaglasser.bsky.social•101 days ago

The venn diagram of crypto weirdos and supplement weirdos is a circle

lncann.bsky.social•101 days ago

The same people who trip over themselves to praise Tulsi Gabbard for being anti-war.

kzkospoison.bsky.social•101 days ago

RFK Jr - “I just want to focus on /preventative/ healthcare!” … … . . .

The disconnect.

Also, what BS ‘eat to cure your cancer’ diet miracle is he going to sell in place of the onesies? 🤔

RFK Jr - “SERIOUSLY GUYS, I QUIT THE ONESIE GAME!!” 😂😂😂

seattleted.bsky.social•101 days ago

Y’know what would make America healthy? Universal Single Payer Healthcare, that’s what.

Everything else is window dressing.

Love the pod!

jaredwade.bsky.social•101 days ago

At least we know supplements are super well regulated and never unsafe nor entirely useless for improving human health....

marksgwe.bsky.social•101 days ago

Otherwise known as unregulated pharma

arthurdeodat.bsky.social•101 days ago

“Increasingly, Big Pharma and Big Herba are indistinguishable...“The very same mega-companies with gigantic chemical labs that make drugs are cooking up vitamin and herbal supplements labeled with sunny terms like ‘natural’ and ‘wholesome.’”

arthurdeodat.bsky.social•101 days ago

“Pfizer, Unilever, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and other big pharmaceutical firms make or sell supplements.”

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/the-link-between-big-pharma-and-the-supplement-industry

tangibullah.bsky.social•101 days ago

Look at the history of various "alternative medicine" products. At the end of every controversy there's a big payoff for someone, usually at the expense of our collective public health.

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