Originally published at: RFK Jr. Finally Gets Around to Bringing His War on Medical Science to Abortion
In a way, it’s surprising it took this long. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. finally acceded to the anti-abortion movement, alerting Republican attorneys general last week that the Food and Drug Administration has begun a review of the “safety profile” of mifepristone. “HHS — through the FDA — is conducting its…
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Medical quackery, Republican style.
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In the recent hearing, he talked about the need for more research re vaccines. A few minutes later, he was railing agsinst ivory tower academics delaying important new therapies from some guy in (I think) Florida. Not sure what, but doubtless some quack nostrum.
As a scamming lawyer, he will grab any justification necessary.
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RFK Jr. has a drug addled and damaged brain and is the head of HHS?? WTF??
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RFKjr should know that abortion causes autism in kids, makes ‘em get vaccinations and swallow tylenol by the bottleful
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Honestly, what the fuck are we - individually we - doing by just going along with this fucking madness. And that’s all it is, madness. What will finally light the fucking powder keg, because bury your head in the sand if you must, but that day is surely coming. You can be prepared, or be fucked.
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Taking us back to a level of medical science and practice about where it was during the Victorian period.
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Please list a few ideas of things we can “do”. I feel your rage. But it’s got to be channeled into something that will have some effect.
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Your Occasional Reminder …
“They tell you that there’s a war on women. There is no war on women. There may be a war on what’s inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country.” — Dr. “Sleepy” Ben Carson
P.S. I really hate this new comment formatting.
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Pro Tip: If you’re going to get health advice from a heroin addict to live longer, get it from Keith Richards and not RFK Jr.
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“Have your way with vaccines, Bobby, but you’ve got to get rid of mifepristone, too. My Jesus-people demand it.”
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I keep remembering the story in the Atlantic about RFK Jr. in college, where the author accidental stole Bobby’s straw for snorting coke. Bobby was mad because he was saving the “crystals” in the straw for later.
I am not a user of cocaine, so I don’t know that this is false, but every part of me is screaming that this entire concept is bullshit, and getting mad at a kid for taking home your straw is some serious cokehead thinking.
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How about honestly, what the fuck are you doing - individually you - other than talking tough on the internets? Show us the way, revolutionary vanguard shock troop commander.
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Yeah, this is the guilty deflection from someone who’s doing exactly nothing. When you’re compelled to stand up and fight and your reaction is “you go” you don’t deserve the freedoms that others secure for you. But yeah, sure. Thanks for showing us the laziness that will end in death camps.
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I for one, and just for myself, am joining Susan Collins by being deeply concerned.
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You are really a piece of work, aren’t you. And, fun at parties, too, I’ll bet.
But hey, thanks for securing my freedoms for me. I didn’t know it was you, all this time.
On second thought, I’m beginning to smell some sort of weird, MAGA troll in you. ‘Cause you never respond to the question about what you are doing.
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”Posting on the Internet” - DUH! 
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Brows are furrowed
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You be polite, I’ll be direct: Another description of that response might be “confession.”
4chan /b/ culture…discouraged any poster name other than “Anonymous”. The spirit wasn’t just “no rulers”; it was “no leaders.” Without a name — and without a track record — readers had to evaluate each post or proposal without cues about the person making them. And if you tried what a post proposed and had a particularly good or bad time, there was no way after to say, “Well, I will or won’t listen to him again.”
Some people said it made more sense to think of 4chan as only having one super-prolific, usually-crazed poster, and his name was Anonymous. It said so right there on every post.
Despite lack of identity, some /b/tards did arrange physical meetups and political demonstrations.
Still, participants had to evaluate each post on its own: “is this a cool prank? Or is this message from somebody being blackmailed by a plea agreement, to help the FBI fish for destructive idiots?”
I think 4chan is an interesting extreme in radically anonymous forums, and it was certainly good practice for imagining, “What’s the worst intent possible behind this message?” even when the intent turns out more benign.
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