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322 points

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

Was the solar eclipse an inside job?!?

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101 points

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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16 points

It’s Vitamin D. There was this whole thing during the COVID pandemic about how the FDA/CDC were SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET about how impactful Vitamin D levels were on COVID outcomes or something and how that’s how you know that… something something sinister ulterior motives.

So like the idea was that everybody going outside and getting some sun was actually the best thing for public health, but THEY were telling you to languish inside under lockdowns, because clearly they didn’t want you to be healthy.

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7 points

Yeah, I know it’s Vitamin D you get from the sun, but for instance exposing yourself to sun that requires sun lotion, you’re still getting all the vitamin D you can use.

Idk this might be a bullshit stat, but here in Finland you here all sorts of things about vitamin D and sunshine, so iirc, I think like 15 minutes in the sun already gives you your daily dose of vitamin D.

So it’s not exactly a good reason to lift the lockdown when people can just go out to walk their dog and have all the benefits that one can get from the sun. It’s not like sun worshipping yourself until you look like a two-day old hotdog is anything healthy. The sort of tanning RFK JR seems to have practiced. I had a friend (woman) who just loved suntanning. Like crazy much. And smokes. She wasn’t too bad looking when I worked with her, but god she’s gonna look like wrinkled leather in 10 years.

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4 points

It’s funny because I remember specific provisions for allowing people to go outside for exercise lmao

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67 points

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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There was a finding a few years ago that while preventing skin cancer, sunscreen was also causing people in some places to get less vitamin d which was increasing instances of colon cancer. The solution isn’t banning sunscreen, it’s making sure people get some small amount of sun or supplements vitamin d.

Being from Oz I never really considered issues with vitamin d until I moved to the UK for a few years and discovered that limited vitamin d is a real problem in winter. Im not sure on the deficiency you need for colon cancer but a few weeks of little to no Sun really messes with your head and body.

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8 points

Being from Oz

Did the Wicked movie get the look right? It seems like a fun place apart from all the fascism.

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“There are a lot of ingredients in cosmetics, hair care and sunscreen that can act as endocrine mimickers in a lab, meaning they kind of act like a hormone,” Waldman explains.
But He stresses that, when it comes to chemical sunscreen ingredients, the potential link largely comes from animal studies that likely don’t translate to humans. For instance, in many studies, researchers are feeding large amounts of these ingredients to mice, He explains, which is “not really comparable to a human situation.”

EDIT: So no, no they don’t in humans.

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7 points

It’s quite likely a belief that sunscreen lotion is a bad thing that harms people.

I mean, it halfway is:

  • “Sunscreen” – stuff with a decently high SPF rating – is a good thing that prevents cancer.

  • “Suntan lotion” – usually glorified coconut oil with fuck-all SPF rating – is a bad thing that harms people.

  • “Sunscreen lotion” – a confused amalgamation of the previous terms – is not a thing and only misleads people by conflating good things with harmful ones.

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5 points

This is not truth everywhere. Where I grew up suntan lotion is sunscreen.

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3 points

‘Lotion’ implies that it’s moisturiser-based, not that it has any tanning properties.

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“Sunscreen lotion” – a confused amalgamation of the previous terms – is not a thing and only misleads people

So confidently stated yet so very wrong. Citation - an example that’s available nationwide: https://no-ad.com/product/spf-85-sunscreen-lotion-3-oz/

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28 points

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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4 points

Because your dermatologist isn’t used to checking for skin cancer where the sun don’t shine.

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5 points

Big FDA not training them on the butthole

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HAARP

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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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136 points

Don’t expect consistency from this administration.

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15 points

Expect only what they can actually deliver. Chaos

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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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10 points

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

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45 points

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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25 points

Clean foods is also a good thing

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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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13 points

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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5 points

Given the giant list of companies that do absolutely nothing to limit the PFCs in our food, we really don’t.

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12 points

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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2: Yes, buttt there are some issues, but afaik do not throw the baby out with the bath water -> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/the-stem-cell-scandal

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6 points

He also talked about obstructive health patents. I’ll take “Things that he won’t follow through on” for 500.

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There are also very good reasons to think that the money in medicine distorts and corrupts the science. Fact is the proper trials are very expensive and the only institutions that can afford them are pharmaceutical corporations. So the only treatments that get trailed are the ones that make good business sense.

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3 points

So RFK Jr’s Dept. of HHS is going to increase government grants for pharmaceutical research, right?

…right?

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3 points

No idea. Can’t get a handle on the guy at all. He’s all over the place.

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3 points
  1. Yes.
  2. Also, yes.
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2 points

We can simply harvest stem cells from the lowest status minorities in the deportation camps

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1 point

Psychedelics have been studied using grants for years now, and al it of research has already been done and psychologists are using them in micro doses. RFK is a fucking clown, hopefully he visits the level 4 infectious diseases and licks the vials.

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My guy, Peptides and SARMS are also super interesting,think of it as the middleground between sports suplements and steroids, chemicals to fuck with your hormones in specific ways. Im taking 4 seperate ones at the moment and my biggest worry is “Am I getting whats on the label” and the biggest reason I dont know is that the FDA wont approve them for human consumption, even though thousands of people do.

I know I might be placing myself at risk of side effects, but I’m already doing it! I’m going to continue doing it, at least let me know my BPC157 is legit.

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198 points

Vaccines are the laziest, lowest effort medicine we have. There is no medical treatment that is more effective for so little actual work on the part of the patient. Which is exactly the kind of medicine we need to have the greatest impact on the population base.

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50 points

Even better than that. You take the medicine and it reduces everyone else’s risk of getting sick, even the ones that refuse to take the medicine. It’s the closest thing we have IRL to literal magic.

As an immunocompromised person, thank you to everyone who gets vaccinated against communicable disease, you make my world a little less heinous to navigate.

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5 points

I appreciate your gratitude and I really do hope it does some good for others… Especially because I really hate needles but I have it done anyway for this reason. Lol 😬

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48 points

People like RFK don’t get it. Also, has anyone seen a fucking microchip in a syringe… ever?

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33 points

I think it’s a large variation of a syringe needle that chips our pets, but aside from that monstrously large setup that isn’t even used on humans, no.

Closest thing I can think of is the capsule sized camera that can be swallowed to collect data as it travels through that long tube that connect mouth to anus. Even then, I’ve never seen that setup used on anyone.

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Yeah, that’s what I mean. You can feel the microchip under the skin with the real ones. But we’re shown a clear liquid going in. Where are the 'chips?

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In the bio hacking world, yea. There are reprogrammable RFID implants that you can get. They are rather large though and kind of suck when trying to use. Check out dangerousthings.com

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I love the idea of bio hacking. Too bad the things they do have such poor risk to utility ratio 😂

When do I get my cyborg legs? That’s what I wanna know

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How does Hep C cause spasmodic dysphonia? I can’t say I’ve ever seen that on the general medical Hep C bingo card.

Link?

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144 points

“You know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine.”

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33 points

Unexpected Tim Minchin!

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Wait so he is pro psychedelics?

Huh, it would be really weird if the US legalized acid.

If maga starts doing acid to own the libs maybe they would finally start questioning things.

I know I’m wrong, but one can hope can’t they?

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Yeah this is actually really hopeful in a fucked up way. I really hope they legalize psychedelics. They are an extremely effective way to get people to stop voting republican. Worked for me. It woke something up in me that made me realize how selfish and self-serving that entire party is. I’m the only one in my family who no longer votes republican, and also the only one who has tried psychedelics. I think that says a lot.

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29 points

Honestly, some of these pricks could really probably benefit from getting out of their head for a bit lol.

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I could see a world where all politicians are required to do a guided LSD trip prior to taking office being better than this one.

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I would love for this to be true, and I believe there are many benefits to psychedelics…but then I remember the Manson family existed

Edit: I fully support psychedelics…just saying.
And on a friendlier, non-Manson note. Please share your favorite psych related music @ !psychedelicmusic@lemmy.world

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20 points

The thing with psychedelics is that you only see what you bring with you

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It’s the brain worms trying to protect themselves legally from the side effects of having brain worms.

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