• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    So I knew about RFK’s anti vaccine / raw milk stance, I didn’t know this part though

    Kennedy has also expressed skepticism about widely accepted infectious disease science, questioning whether germs cause disease and whether HIV causes AIDS.

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      If he has any doubts about HIV causing AIDS, he should test it on himself then. I mean if he says it doesn’t do it, why not?

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      Yeah he’s also cast aspersions on the Polio vaccine. When that vaccine was first announced on the news, people on NY were out in the streets celebrating. Work basically stopped for the day. Practically everyone knew someone who had died of Polio.

      It was one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the modern era. But RFK thinks he knows better.

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      Scratch a denialist of one type, and you soon find they contain multitudes of denialist bullshit. That’s been my experience, anyway.

      Ask him about the Holocaust, evolution, and the moon landing, I say…seems he is already known as a vaccine denialist, an HIV denialist and a germ theory denialist.