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[–] Siegehammer85@lemmy.world 166 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Bullets also open the blood-brain barrier and allow toxins into the brain, so are they going to be banned? 🧐

[–] don@lemmy.ca 128 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Brought to you courtesy of the conservative voters and the apathetic voters, well known exemplars of mental acuity.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 55 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Don't forget the heroes who voted for Jill Stein. Because if you didn't then you lOvE gEnOcIdE

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

Not loving genocide, but genocide wasn't a deal-breaker. Which is completely insane, if you stop to think about it for even a minute

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 97 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

One of the key characteristics of fascism is machismo: a kind of hyper masculinity, and one of the characteristics of machismo is seemingly that a man is right simply by stating something confidently enough. It's not about facts, evidence, or rigorous testing, it's just about being the right kind of man and having the right kind of masculine energy. That's why fascists are anti-intellectual, because intellectuals and academics understand that research, testing, and experimentation determine truth, not manly vibes.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Feels like empire is being run by boomer email forwards.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 53 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait until he finds out about the radiation from the Sun. Get him a mirror.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 50 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

You know, I can get behind the sentiment of MAHA. Fast foods literally killing people, and worse, making thier lives miserable and expensive. Healthy skepticism of big pharma is, err, healthy. Bring that on.

Research into cell phone health issues is fine. The physics suggest it shouldn't be an issue, but still, data is good.


...But can we please take the quack medicine out?

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Agreed that there's no such thing as "wasted" research. But there is no medicine to take out of the quack medicine. They're quacks because they refuse to accept results of research on emotional grounds and just keep squawking the same things their minds are made up about.

Focusing on problems that are fairly settled now because a 70+ year old heard they were mysterious and a problem at the age of six is so inefficient as to be regressive. Yes we should continue to research... everything but we should do so on the foundation of all the research available in , not on vaguely remembered tabloid scares from decades ago.

[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

there’s no such thing as β€œwasted” research

Oh my sweet summer child.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Faraday never told the prime minister asking what use his electrical party tricks had with, "I don't know but someday you will tax it." But it's fairly un-intuitive that some weirdos arguing about Newton's gravity equations not working in very specific circumstances would lead to precision worldwide location / mapping / guidance technology (Special relativity / GPS). Or that the abstract work in what atoms are and how they work would lead to incredibly dense handheld digital storage devices (quantum mechanics / SSDs). Seeing what organs could be removed from a living dog lead to the development of insulin.

Limiting research to what will pay off in ~5-10 years is like only taking day-trips and wondering why you never discover new continents.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago

Well, the only physics in EM that could be an issue is that the near-field isn't the same as the far-field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_and_far_field

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Roughly accurate transcription it seems:

Text of above[01:11:01] well, wi-fi radiation is, does all kinds of bad things, including causing cancer.

[01:11:10] wi-fi radiation causes cancer.

[01:11:11] yeah, from your cell phone. i mean, there's cell phone tumor, tumors, you know, that, i mean,

[01:11:15] i'm representing hundreds of people who have cell phone tumors behind the ear. it's always on the

[01:11:20] ear that you favor with your cell phone. and, you know, we have the science. so if anybody

[01:11:27] lets us in front of a jury, it will be over. you know, we-

[01:11:30] so what is the number? because a lot of people use cell phones.

[01:11:32] there's a lot of people with it. they're glioblastomas. that's the kind of cancers that

[01:11:37] they get. but cancer's not the worst thing. they also, you know, it opens up,

[01:11:42] wi-fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier. and so all these toxins that are in your body can

[01:11:49] now go into your brain.

[01:11:50] how does wi-fi radiation open up your blood-brain barrier?

[01:11:54] yeah, now you're going beyond my expertise. but what-

[01:12:00] there are, there are, i'm going to use a number here and you're going to think it's hyperbole,

[01:12:05] but it's not. there are tens of thousands of studies that show the horrendous danger of wi-fi

[01:12:12] radiation. and-

[01:12:15] so this is wi-fi that's in this room?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Would love to see these tens of thousands of studies that show the danger

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 21 points 4 weeks ago

Now you've gone beyond my university's subscriptions.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

are those tens of thousands of studies in the room with us right now?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Are they speaking to you now?

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 39 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow. This is so utterly absurd, even for politican.

But if he can't explain it, maybe he should bring in an expert who can. I can't wait to hear that explanation. I'll have the popcorn ready.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 39 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, this arrow, here, is WiFi.

And this line is the bloodβ€”brain, barrier.

When the arrow comes to the line, it goes through it. See?

And other things can go through the hole. Like woke.

I will not be taking questions. Thank you.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep. Exactly the best such an "expert" could provide. When did he lose his license to practice, again?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

No Questions!

[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 31 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

If you look at how RFK jr is sitting, he's leaning back and to the left.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

How can the country whose engineering skill and expertise managed to rocket their manufacturing economy into the stratosphere post WWI and into WWII, devolve into idiots like RFK Jr?

His uncle wanted to put people on the moon for fucks sake. What a terrible shame on his family to have this guy be one of the last representatives of the Kennedy name.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 points 4 weeks ago

Hi, I would like to introduce you to Rupert Murdoch, the ruler of Newscorp and now Fox.

He tried to make sure most of his children wouldn't have any voting rights because they were too moderate compared to himself and his favorite son..

Fox is now its own separate entity, but it's still the Murdoch family on the board of it.

TL;DR: The reason the anglosphere, primarily the US, is so fucked, is actually an ozzie. Though he's been an American citizen for some 4 decades now.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What a terrible shame on his family to have this guy be one of the last representatives of the Kennedy name.

Eh, agreed on some level, though it's actually also good proof of karma, which we all need. Shouldn't have lobotomized Rosemary, you sick fucks.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's very true. I honestly didn't mean to minimize the Kennedy scandals. I should have chosen my words better.

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[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

He's saying this so people think his ideas are crazy and won't believe it when the feds and intelligence organizations actually manipulate society with technology.

That's his role in the administration. Its all a long con preparing for the social control coming next.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I think that you're actually putting too much stock into these people. They are just nasty people being nasty as far as they can. Any planning is superficial.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 weeks ago

From some of them? Yes. From all of them? No. Steven Miller, Steve Bannon, maybe Dr Oz, almost certainly Linda McMahon, have plans

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago

Us government: "Let's hire that guy to be in charge of health care."

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this how kids become mitochondrially challenged?

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[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 weeks ago

That would be a really funny joke in a parallel universe.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There was debate into the late 90's in the scientific community if hiv caused aids due to the rigorous nature of Koch's Postulates. Even then it was just recognized not all the criteria were met. Later they proved it with a monkey variant. HIV causing aids. Not the crazy wifi thing.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, this seems to be the basis for all sorts of craziness. Something is sort of true at some point, latch onto some bastardized understanding and just never let that go

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 4 weeks ago

basically. I mean it was given some credence because the scientific community takes technical specifics like that very seriously but even then it was still recognized as unlikely that hiv did not cause aids as lab accidents had caused it. Its sorta funny I heard a guy give his talk on a paper like that in like 95 and looking it up in 96 the paper was written arguing we had proved it already by the criteria.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 4 weeks ago

The WiFi came from the future to turn HIV into AIDS.

[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

This is what people voted for.

Enough people to put it there.

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