RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions
The move comes after RFK Jr. called top medical journals “corrupt.”…
I'm not as concerned with this as I am with the fascism, because this will at least kill us indiscriminately
My friend, this is part of the fascism.
Just when I'm about to retire, Medicare will only cover chiropractors and horse paste.
Aaaand thoughts and prayers!
gotta have some tots and pears!
And colloidal silver!
Kennedy is a germ-theory denier who believes people can maintain their health not by relying on evidence-based medicine, such as vaccines, but by clean living and eating
I fucking hate this timeline
Even if he believed that, why isn’t he calling for more regulation oversight for the FDA and stringent quality controls on the food production supply chain as a whole?
Because like everyone in Trump's government, he is there to gut, cripple, and undermine the public's trust in our institutions.
I wait for the new FDA “preferred partners” program
This is all going to be covered by a snarky longform YouTube (or equivalent) documentary in 200 years.
"Why do we live in an underground bunker - 21st history channel"
keep me in the screenshot unless you want your subscriber base to know this guy from the past thinks you suck.
also, we're so sorry. not all of us, but some of us.
Must be why he looks like he has a bad liver or too much colloidal silver, like some dumb smurf-hillbilly Hoosier
I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t Nature and its subject-specific varieties considered some of the most reputable and prestigious scientific publications?
To RFKJ the only reliable scientific sources are Facebook memes and the labels on quack cures.
If we go by impact factor (a measure of how often the articles a journal publishes are cited elsewhere), various Nature publications are six of the top ten journals in the world and Nature itself is 15th
Yes. It's pretty much the definition of a high quality peer-reviewed journal.
"precious tax payers money shouldn't go to unused subscriptions to junk science"
Ahh yes, but it should be used to make the incomprehensibly wealthy, even more wealthy. I really wish there was a god.
Did they just hear the term junk science and went "no u"?
This administration is so fucking frustrating, but it seems they want to remove any meaning of that word, the same way they always do.
Did they just hear the term junk science and went "no u"?
That's EXACTLY what they did, yeah. Just like when they appropriated "fake news" which was originally a term describing their own disinformation.
Which also nicely mirrors the Nazis calling everybody that contradicts them Lügenpresse.
That's not new though, Stalin and Hitler both played the fake news game.
Nah, John Stossel was using it back in the '90s to deny climate change. The term "junk science" has always been used as an excuse to ignore reality.
The US is like a reality tv show, except it's less believable.
There must be (or ought to be) a term for this type of conspiracy that requires practically all experienced professionals in a given field to be complicit.
You could convince me that one or even a group of researchers were acting with nefarious intent, but everyone? It's just an absurdity.
It's pretty much the definition of the "grand conspiracy theory". It requires the combined effort of thousands of people across hundreds of countries. It's insanity.
Very much like a Protocols of the Elders of Zion theme, but with educated scientists rather than jews
It's just a repeat of that AIDS conspiracy group that rejected evidence on HIV and made their own "science" mag which folded when everyone died of AIDS
So the modern approach to healthcare is back to leeches and blood letting huh. Did not have that on my 2025 bingo card but in retrospect I really should have.
Well at least we know which publication refused to capitulate to morons.
I wonder which ones they kept.
Damn, what a bad week month decade century for US healthcare!
Was there a good week month decade century for US healthcare?
Everybody knows that real science is peerless.
They're probably already in the data set of whichever LLM they use to write their policy documents anyway, so sure, fine. 🙄
its called pseudoscience=alternative science, naturopathy, homeopathy. he regularly consumes methylene blue.
There is legitimate research on the effects of ingesting methylene blue. Don’t confuse that with pseudoscience. There’s probably plenty of pseudoscience around it, but it’s not (at its core) naturopathy/homeopathy/voodoo.
yes there is, but rfk jr consumes it in his drinks, he thinks that is valid enough.
Unnatural
Lmao.