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@agraybee

Actual, honest-to-god medieval peasant beliefs.

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Jane Coaston

@janecoaston

Aug 28

Replying to @janecoaston

2.) RFK Jr has embraced an ethos in if you do all the right things, you won't get sick, and if you do, that's on you. He calls it "miasma theory" and he rejects "germ theory," as in, germs cause diseases.

11:05 AM · Aug 30, 2025

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Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)

@agraybee

Aug 30

This was why plague doctors wore those masks, they believed it kept out the miasma, literally "bad air."

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The Concupiscent Platypus

@guiltedsociety

Aug 30

I think he needs his humors balanced

I stand by my estimation that this man would never have lived to see his 30th birthday without that last name and that family keeping his dumb ass alive

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Nell, wizard of the rainforest

Yeah, right.

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Is this why he takes testosterone supplements? At least he looks like he does

Death Cult Behavior

we are so back

Would you like to attempt to provide an origin for the supposedly novel virus? It’s been 5 years.

If this is what RFK believes, why couldn’t Jane cite what he said or wrote? Why did she cite an analysis? Who wrote this analysis? No one who’s ever read or listened to him on a long form podcast, for example, seriously thinks he has’ medieval peasant beliefs.’

Making your immune system strong is the best way to prevent sickness. Many of y'all just sit inside and never get any sun or move. Your immune systems are weak and susceptible to infection so you gotta live in fear.

the previous CDC told us wearing a mask would protect everyone then i scratched my balls and ass crack while touching my mask and wondered why i got sick "I was wearing a mask"

How do they square away being "anti pharma" or "drugs are cheating nature" while simultaneously having exogenous steroids leaking out of your pores?

Please stop slandering peasants. They didn't know any better and didn't have any realistic way of learning differently. This is some very modern foolishness we are facing.

This shit was in his book and people were like "no problem." Which the average voter can sometimes be forgiven for. But not the Senators. Fire each and every one that confirmed him. There are literally millions of American lives on the line.

“the pharmaceutical paradigm of targeting specific germs” what does he think a functioning immune system does

Who’d have known that all that History Channel I watched as a kid would actually prepare me for the current moment? Fucking miasma, bro. Fucking wild.

It’s a shame he wasn’t the one lobotomized tbh

RFK jr. running DHS like an old-timey doctor.

it's worse, because for as wrong as medieval peasants were, the most moral of them would at least act consistently within those beliefs. meanwhile, RFK Jr.'s idea of good nutrition is... raw milk? french fries fried with beef tallow?? just complete granola mom hooey

Marxist-Cassandraist.

@Michaeljhandy

Aug 30

Doesn't even get Miasma theory right. In any case I hope you like 19th century tragic heroines because consumption is about to be back in a big big way.

This motherfucker doesn't believe in GERMS?!

It's actually amazing that a guy who looks like a dried pepperoni, sounds like he gargles with sulfuric acid and is so toxic to be around that one of his wives committed suicide holds himself up as a paragon to healthy living.

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I bless the rains down in Akkala

@anijen21

Aug 30

Imagine running the CDC while believing in miasma theory but not even using that term correctly

watchin too much inuyasha with the miasma

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Albaplena

@Albaplena1

Aug 30

It’s eugenics. That’s the end result of this. If you have a chronic illness it’s your fault.

Luis E. Sanchez

@Emilio_BusChez

Aug 30

People (rightfuly) dunk on Collins and Cassidy for voting YES on his confirmation. And of course they know he should not have been, but Im willing to believe they thought he would not be this bad. I didnt think he would be this bad

THATS NOT EVEN WHAT MIASMA IS, ITS A FUCKING THEORY ON ITS OWN AND ITS NOT THAT! Is this what happens when you're that stupid? Is he going to start suggesting blood letting for the humours?

We are being dragged, screaming, bit by bit back into the darkness our ancestors labored and died to free us from

miribell

@miribell6

Aug 31

If it's true that miasmas cause disease then maybe we can prevent diseases by preventing bad smells. Like maybe we can carry containers with strong smelling herbs or perfumes and sniff them when we're in an area with disease. It's worth a try

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It's more akin to prosperity gospel.

Only a matter of time before Phlogiston theory starts making a come back

He's said that HIV is caused by using poppers/whippits. I asked an RFK Jr fan online whether babies born HIV+ did too many poppers at gay clubs prior to birth. He didn't have a good answer for that one. Gotta laugh, or you'll cry.

I personally subscribe to the scag theory in which you shoot as much heroin as possible and then people think you're somehow qualified to lecture anyone on health instead of them realizing you're a junkie who fried their brain

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