History repeating? I wrote for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social how US future health under RFK Jr may be a 3rd major episode of science denialism, post Soviet Lysenko times and Thanbo Mbeki’s South African HIV-denial (obliged to @mattyfield.bsky.social ) : 1/n thebulletin.org/2024/11/lyse... - ThreadSky

georgiospappas6.bsky.social • 99 days ago

History repeating? I wrote for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social how US future health under RFK Jr may be a 3rd major episode of science denialism, post Soviet Lysenko times and Thanbo Mbeki’s South African HIV-denial (obliged to @mattyfield.bsky.social ) : 1/n https://thebulletin.org/2024/11/lysenko-mbeki-and-rfk-jr-leaders-who-shun-science-will-face-predictably-bad-results

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georgiospappas6.bsky.social•99 days ago

Lysenko was an agronomist that reigned in Soviet science for 30 years, denying Mendelian principles, , allowing for genetists’ purges (labelled as cosmopolitan enemies of the people) 2/n https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/212/1/1/6087971

georgiospappas6.bsky.social•99 days ago

Thabo Mbeki, Mandela’s heir in South Africa, consulted prominent HIV-denialists, let loose “natural remedy sellers”, and obstructed any treatment available, leading to more than 300,000 unnencessary death- @gavinyamey.bsky.social wrote back then: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1071141/ 3/n

georgiospappas6.bsky.social•99 days ago

A recent article by @aetiology.bsky.social analyzed how RFKJr spoke in awe about HIV-denialists. RFKJr also speaks of holocaust and bourgeois scientists, like Mbeki’s affiliates ad Lysenko. History repeated as a tragedy, but the second time will not be a farce 4/n https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10461-024-04528-3

georgiospappas6.bsky.social•99 days ago

1964, in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Sterling Hayden’s general proclaimed: “Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to deal with?” Now, some urge us to learn to stop worrying and love an impending health bomb… 5/n

coigue.bsky.social•99 days ago

I went to Khyletcia (sp?) in South Africa near Cape Town in the 00s and saw a cemetery that was very old, but most of the graves were fresh from the AIDS crisis. The big lie was that HIV didn’t cause AIDS and condoms did not prevent it

cave-malum.bsky.social•99 days ago

Celia Farber is 1st endorsement from publisher of RFK Jr/CHD latest book
https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Pharmaceutical-Killing-Machine-Facing-Facts/dp/1648211291/

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