A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Robert F.
  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’m very familiar with the world of academia. To be honest, many of them/us are surprisingly stupid, but for a reason. To get a doctorate in a field is no easy task. Your lack of knowledge in much else is because you spent all you had being knowledgeable in a specific thing.

    So even if you think a doctor is a stupid person in general, there is NO EXCUSE for them being stupid in the one thing they spent years becoming an expert in.

    So, is this “doctor” actually holding a doctorate in this field? Let me check…

    …god, he has the most generic name it’s impossible to know.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 days ago

      There’s no way to say this without sounding arrogant but what you described is pretty much only true for the US. Apart from an underfunded and understaffed education system there seems to be just a comparatively very low emphasis on the importance of general knowledge. I’ve had shocking encounters with Americans in that regard. It’s not everyone of course but on average it really is noticeable.

      • saltesc@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I’m non-US and work at a university. Some of the academics I can’t imagine surviving in the real world. The only way I can explain it is they get a PhD and then the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to everything, but they don’t evolve on it. And they’re weirdly incredibly gullable—like, in their 30s and vulnerable to scams and misinformation your grandma would immediately pick up on. You get concerned for what else they may be teaching students because kids fresh out of high school often trust adults and these adults put off an identity of being experts.

        You want to say to them, “If it’s not about phylogenetics, don’t listen to a single fucking thing this person says no matter how confident they sound.”

  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Fun fact. RFK forced his brother to take cocaine and demerol. His brother would later get addicted, and die of an overdose. Also, he sounds like that from years of heroin abuse.

    • spongebue@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      For what it’s worth on the voice thing, assuming that’s what “he sounds like that” refers to: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279176/rfk-voice-spasmodic-dysphonia

      That’s the result of a rare neurological condition known as spasmodic dysphonia, which has afflicted Kennedy for decades.

      If you’ve got any evidence that it was heroin that caused that neurological condition I’m all ears, but we have a pretty reliable source on this one.

      • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        He’s been a severe heroin addict for 14 years. It isn’t uncommon for drug addicts to have motor dysfunction (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3966544/). He’s put out himself that it is spasmodic dysphonia, which is a disease in which the cause is not well understood (ironically, it may be associated with measles). Importantly, this information was released when he was running for president. It is probably better to name a ‘disorder’ rather than to say I broke my brain from years for substance abuse.

        There’s a behind the bastard podcast that goes into detail about RFK’s life. It’s truly awful.

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Seriously who doesnt think he is a nurgle cultist at this point? This is like text book Nurgle follower.

      • werty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 days ago

        We don’t care if dumb americans die is what they’re saying. Y’all voted for that shit afterall… poor little mericans in the richest country in the wotld with all the guns, ooohh measles

            • TronBronson@lemmy.world
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              4 days ago

              I giggled too as an american. Why not enjoy the end times. People ushered this in through ignorance, arrogance, and inaction. let god sort em out.

                • TronBronson@lemmy.world
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                  4 days ago

                  Thank you! I’ve been a prepper most of my life so I’m ready for the results. These poor people can’t even acknowledge the horrors they face in the imminent future. It’s kinda cute and fitting. I’m very interested to see who survives in the post law, post walmart america. Maybe we can build a great nation again.

  • Australis13@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    Dr. Edwards should lose his medical licence and be banned from working with children forever. How sociopathic do you have to be to be working whilst knowing you are carrying one of the most infectious diseases in existence? This is utterly inexcusable, especially since he is supposedly a qualified doctor and should be well aware of the danger he is putting his patients in.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Does seem like it would go against the hypocratic oath. That said, I leave that up to the medical board to determine since I am not a doctor. But it should at least be investigated by them.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      AFAIK it’s the most known infectious.

      Covid, or at least one of the omicron variants is next i think, but one might argue its more since the infection cycle was faster leading to larger numbers, but in terms 1 person infecting X people, it’s Measles.