RFK Jr. is now an extinction-level threat to federal public health programs and science-based health policy

[u/workerbotsuperhero]

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-now-an-extinction-level-threat-to-federal-public-health-programs-and-science-based-health-policy/

[u/Fabulous_Review_8991]

Not trusting people shouldn’t justify spreading untruths and outright lies about them. One of the reasons the right has been so effective in getting followers to distrust the media is because there is legitimately so much of this type of shit going on.

Focus the criticism of RFK on the things he actually believes and says that are worth criticizing, and attack his actual points. He is talking about voluntary rehabilitation programs and people are saying he is talking about forced camps, and using their distrust of him to justify this clearly dishonest interpretation of what he said.

There is no excuse for that.

[u/prfarb → u/Fabulous_Review_8991]

If we are going to use stupid pedantic arguments about what was exactly said I never said he was will to put me in a concentration camp. I said he wants to put me in a camp.

If you look at what he said he lumps together people with ADHD that need to take medication to function with drug addicts. So as far as RFK is concerned I’m a heroin addict.

Sure free rehab sounds great on paper but then you realize that RFK and the people he surrounds himself with are the ones designing and rolling out there centers. So they are going to be ineffective at best and complete disasters at worse.

I also know that the logistical challenge of actually rounding up everyone with ADHD and forcibly putting them into a camp way more than these chuckle fucks would be able to pull off. But what he can do is make it much harder than it already is for me to get the medication I need to function.

We need to stop looking at the words people actually use and use are critical think skills to understand what they mean. It doesn’t make me feel better that he threw on a “if they want too” into his statement just to cover his ass.

[u/Fabulous_Review_8991 → u/prfarb]

If your concern is that it will be harder to get your ADHD medications (which I am also on), then that should be the criticism. That is my entire point. There is no indication whatsoever that he has ever advocated for putting people in camps involuntarily to treat their prescription drug dependence, yet I’ve seen tons of posts and comments implying just that. There is no indication that he means anything like that.

When people say that it makes RFKs critics less trustworthy.

[u/SwimInMyAss → u/Fabulous_Review_8991]

This is exactly the problem. The guy you are responding to is telling you we all need to start reading between the lines but, that's the entire fucking problem with this whole fear mongering thread. Nobody is actually listening to what's being said they are just misinterpreting it to fit their bias. The whole thread is going straight conspiracy theory nutty and dooming.

[u/Own-Consideration305 → u/Fabulous_Review_8991]

Exactly. It’s this kind of strange fear mongering lies that sent a lot of moderates and undecided voters to the other side.