• CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Damn that FDA and their suppression of…*checks list…sunshine?

    Was the solar eclipse an inside job?!?

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      When was the last time your big FDA doctor told you to sun your butthole? Why would they hide that from you?

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      It’s quite likely a belief that sunscreen lotion is a bad thing that harms people. Found that one out from an old high school crush from FL. She looks like leather now.

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      I think it’s like the FDA having just reasonable guidelines on how much UV you can safely be exposed to. RFKJR prolly thinks sun lotion prevents all the healthiness from the sun and crystallises your amygdala or something along those lines.

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    Don’t worry, everyone! While we will ignore science and make sure you don’t have vaccines, you’ll have shrooms, rock crystals, and essential oils when bird flu finally hits.

    Or I eat a dead bat and become patient zero for Ebola. It’s all good! - RFK Jr

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      The Democrats should create a shadow presidential cabinet where the health secretary gives science backed advice for people who are looking for it. It would be better to have a centralised political source rather than having everyone independently search Healthline

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    In all that crazy, there’s, shockingly, two good points:

    1. Psychedelics. There’s at least anecdotal evidence they’re good for treating certain traumas / PTSD. So, yeah, we should be looking into their medicinal applications. But is it the FDA or the DEA that’s cockblocking those?

    2. Stem cells. Abso-fucking-lutely yes. But wasn’t it the “pro life” people holding that up?

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      Stem cells.

      He’s not talking about the stem cells that can cure a select few diseases.

      He’s talking about an alternative medicine thing which is basically sticking cells from your right arm into your left arm and calling it “stem cell therapy” then claiming it can cure hundreds of diseases.

      There is zero evidence (or RCTs) showing his version of “stem cells” works.

      The FDA bases approval on two highly successful phase 3 RCTs of a specific drug for a specific condition. You can read more about that process here

      Neither psychedelics not RFK’s version of stem cell therapy has that yet.

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        Thanks for clarifying. I took the mention of stem cells in the wall of crazy tweet to be the more credible form of stem cell therapy. Considering I was fully aware of who was making the statement, the fault is mine.

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        I suspect my insurance company will soon cover shoving goat testicles into my scrotum. I’ll be so virile!

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      For point one, there was a big study about it but it turned out the study co-ordinators were intimidating people into saying that it helped them when it didn’t. This is why psychedelics are still banned because the “scientists” that were trying to prove that they were safe fucked up in the dumbest possible way.

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      I mean psychedelics really shouldn’t be suppressed as much as they want, but with him gutting all actual medical science, they’re not gonna be helping much.

      They have tons of potential and power, but binging mushrooms for three days and dancing in circles isn’t probably the only way we can utilise them. (I’m not saying it’s a bad one, just not necessarily suited for everyone.)

      And actually if psychedelics gets lumped into his shit it might just be a step back for research on psychedelics when eventually this craziness of his blows up in his face. Hopefully before he implements any of it. Or even gets into office.

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        My concern is that his definition of clean food is incompatible with a sane definition of clean food.

        We’re talking about a man who got mercury poisoning from eating unsafe fish, and ate meat that caused a worm to eat part of his brain. His standards for food safety are clearly not the same as mine.

        If he were to assert that pasteurizing milk causes nearsightedness and lazy eye, I wouldn’t not be surprised.

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        Right, but we already have that so I left it off the list. Not that there aren’t things that slip through, but that’s mostly a matter of enforcement and ensuring compliance (both things I do not expect him to take seriously).

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          We don’t really. The EU refuses to import things like US chicken because of our food processes.

          EU food standards are leagues past ours, but the core reason is regulating some of our worst factory farm processes. More regulation will absolutely not happen for 4 years, so no real progress will be made.

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            That “worst factory farm process” is cleaning chicken with cleaning agents generally regarded as safe.

            https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R40199.pdf

            The EU food safety agencies have issued opinions that it’s fine, and the EU would resume importing US poultry if it weren’t for that. The same agents are allowed to be used on other imported and domestically produced foods.
            The conditions in our typical poultry facility are perfectly in line with theirs, we just allow an additional rinse that they don’t.

            Our food supply is nowhere near as gross as people seem convinced.
            The biggest threat to the cleanliness of our food supply is actually people like RFK who view the food safety apparatus as the enemy.

            I really don’t see the incoming administration blocking washing poultry with vinegar or a dilute bleach solution and compensating with increased staffing for food inspection agents. More likely they approve requests by the meat industry to be able to do their own inspection and reduce independent verification in the name of “efficiency”.

  • lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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    Ah yes, vitamins, the secret cure-all that has been kept from us all those years without brainworms at the helm.

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    Look people. This is life now. We could rise up and put all these motherfuckers out of our misery, but nobody is willing to handle business

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      I think we should take full advantage of this opportunity. Ok, here we go.

      “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is a baby murderer! He thinks people should be able to inject themselves with stem cells which are just another name for little bits of unborn baby! President Trump is appointing a pro-choice Democrat baby murderer to head up the FDA!!”

      How am I doing so far?

  • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Can’t wait for deregulation to result in a tech bro reinvesting his Facebook money into an Uber But For Psychedelics startup that incentivizes mixing 9% more sawdust into my shrooms to maximize yield

    ancap-good