RFK Jr has no scientific training.
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@GGMcBG @SeanCasten No more Kennedys, no more Bushes, no more Clintons and no more Trumps. We already have a shitshow, our tendency to create dynasties will only make that worse.
The human need for celebrity, and the American tradition of always elevating our worst, dug us our own deep, dumb grave.
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@SeanCasten The bigger problem is that a majority of U.S. senators sat in a room with that guy, asked him questions for several days, and concluded that the most ridiculous, unqualified person possible should be in charge of the nation’s health department.
@OGJester @SeanCasten yep. The idea that a president should automatically get his choice and the senate should t stand in the way is asinine. Advice and consent is there for a reason. A unanimous "absolutely not" was the only correct outcome
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@BlueDot @SeanCasten homie just got finished telling you that politicians don’t necessarily get at the exact truth, and he’s a scientist he’s not gonna say the word evil if he can help it
@sidhewolf @BlueDot @SeanCasten
the problem with the word "evil" is that it's a kid's fairytale word and is popular with various crackpots
so we shun use of the word because of a vague discomfort, a feeling of guilt by association
but shunning use of the word "evil" means we surrender a powerful tool of communication
so i say:
use the word "evil"
with our definition
reclaim speech rather than surrender speech
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@sidhewolf @BlueDot @SeanCasten
the problem with the word "evil" is that it's a kid's fairytale word and is popular with various crackpots
so we shun use of the word because of a vague discomfort, a feeling of guilt by association
but shunning use of the word "evil" means we surrender a powerful tool of communication
so i say:
use the word "evil"
with our definition
reclaim speech rather than surrender speech
@benroyce @sidhewolf @BlueDot @SeanCasten
Far too many politicians are EVIL in the literal as well as figurative sense.
Self-interest vs service to the community? Pfft! Meh! Pshaw!
Self-interested megalomaniacs always want the role ahead of anyone who actually might be capable of doing it.
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The danger however comes when we confuse his title for his expertise. "Secretary of Health Kennedy says ___" gives the air of legitimacy. Far better to say "Heroin addict Kennedy", "Man who eats road kill and has a brain worm", "Harvard drug dealer" or even "Nuzzi's ex boyfriend".
@SeanCasten "Raccoon penis severer Kennedy".
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RFK Jr has no scientific training. He's a history major with a law degree who worked as an environmental advocate but has never spent any meaningful time doing science, or understanding how science is done. This isn't "an alternative scientific view". It's just kooky opinions. https://x.com/atrupar/status/2083907234405269638?s=20
RFK Jr has "Qrazie Ideas" yet is still supported by racist billionaires like Tim Mellon & Andrew Conru
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/business/economy/mellon-kennedy-childrens-health-defense.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/billionaire-tim-mellon-trump-donation
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-timothy-mellon-is-the-poster
RFK Jr serves the eugenicist agenda of the 1%
https://thecause.substack.com/p/how-eugenics-makes-sense-of-birtherism
MAGA billionaires consider most of the world's population as "surplus to requirements". It's why they fund covid disinformation.
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/09/climate-science-denial-network-behind-great-barrington-declaration/https://jacobin.com/2021/12/right-wing-think-tanks-herd-immunity-death
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/maga-soft-eugenics
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RFK Jr has no scientific training. He's a history major with a law degree who worked as an environmental advocate but has never spent any meaningful time doing science, or understanding how science is done. This isn't "an alternative scientific view". It's just kooky opinions. https://x.com/atrupar/status/2083907234405269638?s=20
@SeanCasten i'll just say it: "FUCK RFK JR." a disgrace to his family and to every single individual with a slice of common sense.
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But he is also evil. He refuses to take responsibility for the harm his actions have done to other people, and that's a pretty good definition of evil.
RFK Jr is a moral and intellectual coward. He actively and loudly pushes dangerous deadly conspiracies then actively and loudly denies he has any culpability for the predicted harm and death. Measles in Samoa.
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Not to be mean. But because all of those things do a better job of attuning the public to whatever he is about to say next. And it's the best way to ensure that the kooky shit he says doesn't get any more people killed. /fin
@SeanCasten I understand what you mean. I am from Gaza, and I have seen how the decisions and actions of people in power can affect ordinary lives in painful ways. Here, we live with immense suffering, uncertainty, and daily struggles just to survive. I hope the world pays more attention to the consequences of words and actions, because behind every crisis there are real people, families, and lives.
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And that's fine! If I'm on trial, I don't want a lawyer who is explaining that my alibi makes it 48% likely that I'm not guilty and depends substantially on the jury cherry picking data from the evidence presented even if that is factually true.
@SeanCasten To go philosophical: science vs. law is, as I came to a belated realisation some years ago, dialectic vs. rhetoric.
Science seeks to arrive at truths and better understanding.
Lawyers and politicians often are acting to persuade and convince.
Realising the difference made many of my previous frustrations with online discussion clear: I was bringing a dialectical knife to a rhetorical gunfight.
Of course, at the time a lawyer I knew online piped up to contradict all of this, until I pointed out just what it was they were doing
There are times you want someone powerfully persuasive running things. And there are times you want someone dead-set on finding truth.
RFK Jr. unfortunately seeks to persuade based on myths, falsehoods, and lies. As you note, wrong person for the job.
Oh, and title-expertise confusion is what that frequently-abused notion of "appeal to authority" is. Again, RFK Jr. is poster-child for that.
But philosophers vs. sophists? That's one long-lived battle.
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All this may sound very philosophical, but when you put true believers in charge of science, people die. If you think bad weather is caused by witches, people die. If you think AIDS is God bringing vengeance on the LGBT community, people die.
@SeanCasten Dark Enlightenment stuff right there, an age of superstition and myths for those not special enough to be allowed knowledge.
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RFK Jr has no scientific training. He's a history major with a law degree who worked as an environmental advocate but has never spent any meaningful time doing science, or understanding how science is done. This isn't "an alternative scientific view". It's just kooky opinions. https://x.com/atrupar/status/2083907234405269638?s=20
@SeanCasten You shut your goddamned libtarded mouth! RFK is a REAL scientist! He has done meaning scientific work on raccoon dongs and dead whales.
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