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RFK Jr's claim that healthy people don't die of infectious diseases traces its roots to the work of Rene Dubos, a pioneer in antibiotics who was very influential in the early holistic health/environmental movement. But Dubos took his argument in a very different direction, as this thread explains.

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This is a great thread. I'd add that this idea of good health as a sign of virtue is another area where the overlap between the New Age/veggie/Whole Foods/Goop demographic and the RFK/volkish/anti-fluoride demographic creates a dangerous pass-through.

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This is a quick read that I highly recommend. I know @lioneltrolling.bsky.social points to this period as an origin story for today's far-right resurgence. But Patterson makes clear that it also culminated a process of resurfacing "sanitized" versions of old & debunked racist civilizational ideas.

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And so for the final assault on the professional managerial class, we're doing an A/B testing.

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Evening soundtrack.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This thread makes it clear that the Trump administration feels like the kid whose parents endowed a university research center when he's getting scolded by the dorm RF. They won't care unless the Supreme Court orders them to do something, and they know this SC won't order them to do anything.

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The guardrails 😭

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This is a very good point that I haven't seen made yet. It's not just Trump that is undermining trust in the US. It is also the inability of US institutions to stop him. And even if you make that "inability to stop him so far," it's already too far to maintain trust.

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