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RFK JUNIOR (Original Post) dcmfox Aug 2025 OP
Maybe researchers in other (free) countries will be the ones to defeat cancer. sinkingfeeling Aug 2025 #1
The other democracies don't have the resources. yardwork Aug 2025 #5
I look for the UK and Germany to take over the research and US scientists. sinkingfeeling Aug 2025 #15
They will take some but they can't replace the scope and scale of the work. yardwork Aug 2025 #17
Definitely. We're leading in one category only: idiocy. live love laugh Aug 2025 #31
You should change the OP to RFK JUNIOR mucifer Aug 2025 #2
I don't really even like referring to him as "RFK Jr." Xavier Breath Aug 2025 #4
I call him Bob. I hate him. yardwork Aug 2025 #6
He's Brainworm Bobby to me. Dulcinea Aug 2025 #9
+1000 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2025 #18
He's well worth hating, that's for damn sure. Xavier Breath Aug 2025 #12
You're in good company. The rest of his family hate him also. erronis Aug 2025 #30
I call him BobK, or sometimes BobK Jr. for those not quick on the uptake. He doesn't deserve his father's name. Hekate Aug 2025 #16
RFKKK works for me. BurnDoubt Aug 2025 #34
Yes per the other poster please add JR to the name in the title OP Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #3
this will be the only winter before the midterms rampartd Aug 2025 #10
And when the next pandemic comes and it will Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #14
One of the greatest mysteries to me is that, while the US has many of the greatest scientists on earth, ... dedl67 Aug 2025 #7
Greed Mysterian Aug 2025 #21
That is a succinct and yet very comprehensive explanation of the core problem. n/t Whiskeytide Aug 2025 #27
Hear Hear! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Aug 2025 #29
This affects me personally Lifeafter70 Aug 2025 #8
I'm so sorry that your family is going through this Danmel Aug 2025 #13
Hugs to you it is hard on a parent when Lifeafter70 Aug 2025 #19
Elections have consequences gulliver Aug 2025 #11
It's kind of like the worm is still in his brain FoggyLake Aug 2025 #20
Yes surfered Aug 2025 #24
Nah!The worm simply died of starvation 3825-87867 Aug 2025 #26
The blood of the police officer shot and killed in Georgia is on his hands onenote Aug 2025 #22
Doctor's prescription surfered Aug 2025 #23
This! surfered Aug 2025 #25
Has anyone read much about this? womanofthehills Aug 2025 #28
The Trump Administration MissouriDem47 Aug 2025 #32
May all involved receive everything they deserve. niyad Aug 2025 #33
This also stops the development of a new vaccine against the COVID virus and all the new mutations of the virus. Botany Aug 2025 #35
This is the lazy man's eugenics. BurnDoubt Aug 2025 #36

yardwork

(69,132 posts)
5. The other democracies don't have the resources.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:20 PM
Aug 2025

If anyone steps in it will be China. Instead of publishing the research and sharing the data on open source platforms - as U.S. research institutions did with federally funded research - China will keep it secret and sell products to us. The products will be far more expensive than they are now and we won't know what's in them.

Trump has destroyed one of the greatest achievements of mankind. We had a partnership between the federal government and US research institutions that made countless discoveries that improved the lives of people all over the world. This partnership was an economic engine that produced research for US companies to make into treatments and cures.

All washed away in a matter of months. Literally the biggest self-own in human history.

yardwork

(69,132 posts)
17. They will take some but they can't replace the scope and scale of the work.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:43 PM
Aug 2025

With federal funding, U.S. research universities invested in state of the art facilities and equipment, most of them invented in the same institutions.

That's why researchers came to the US from all over the world.

The big winner will be China. I'm sure that's why this happening.

mucifer

(25,614 posts)
2. You should change the OP to RFK JUNIOR
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:07 PM
Aug 2025

his dad didn’t do this horror.

But it’s important info to post to DU so thanks

Xavier Breath

(6,570 posts)
4. I don't really even like referring to him as "RFK Jr."
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:13 PM
Aug 2025

Still gives him too much prestige and legitimacy. "Bob 2" seems more fitting. "Idiot son" is always good.

18. +1000
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:57 PM
Aug 2025

He is Felon47's Grim Reaper.

Make him show the "science'' that supports his decisions. This is what happens when you appoint a person with no scientific or medical qualifications to watch over the health of millions of people.

Every single one of Felon47's appoints have been worse that expected.

erronis

(23,268 posts)
30. You're in good company. The rest of his family hate him also.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 04:16 PM
Aug 2025

Same as Stevie Miller. d'jt, etc.

I guess psychopaths don't get a lot of love. I really, really feel sorry for any Kennedy now.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
16. I call him BobK, or sometimes BobK Jr. for those not quick on the uptake. He doesn't deserve his father's name.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:39 PM
Aug 2025

Hey, hey, BobK. How many kids will you kill today?

His own cousin Caroline remembers him from childhood, and calls him a “predator. “

Now we all know him as an evil, charismatic, predator.

BurnDoubt

(1,592 posts)
34. RFKKK works for me.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 04:46 PM
Aug 2025

R(Rat) F(Fink) KKK.
My eternal apologies to "Big Daddy" Ed Roth.
Somebody with talent please render for us!
I was a Kennedy Kid since I was nine, and I can't stand this iteration of the gene-pool.
It makes me want to PUKE!!!!!

Eliot Rosewater

(34,282 posts)
3. Yes per the other poster please add JR to the name in the title OP
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:12 PM
Aug 2025

And I talk about this all day on social media, Kennedy is going to kill millions of us starting this winter there’s no question about that because no one‘s doing a goddamn thing about it and barely anybody’s talking about it.

rampartd

(4,355 posts)
10. this will be the only winter before the midterms
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:26 PM
Aug 2025

but i fear we will lose thousands to influenzas from this 1 man and his enablers.

dedl67

(195 posts)
7. One of the greatest mysteries to me is that, while the US has many of the greatest scientists on earth, ...
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:21 PM
Aug 2025

... we are being 'led' (rather misled) by the greatest idiots on earth, who are deliberately trying to destroy science.

How does a nation that produces the likes of Thomas Cech, a scientist who made many of the discoveries regarding RNA, vote to have our health in the hands of someone like RFK, Jr, the very antithesis? I am sure there are explanations, but at the moment I am at a loss.

Mysterian

(6,268 posts)
21. Greed
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 03:17 PM
Aug 2025

The failure of unregulated capitalism is the concentration of wealth into a small number of families. That has happened in the USA and the wealthy have invested heavily in propaganda, convincing gullible people to hate liberal ideas and support fascism. Fascists are backwards-thinkers, and the evil RFK Jr. fits right in.

Lifeafter70

(827 posts)
8. This affects me personally
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:23 PM
Aug 2025

My son has ACC cancer. It is slow growing painful and life altering. He has lost his vision and some hearing. His speech is slured due to two surgeries to remove tumor.
At his last visit he was told that there was no further treatment and is on palitive care.
A specific mRNA is in phase one of clinical trails and showing promise in treating his type of cancer.
This move by brainworm has taken away my son's hope for survival.
Fuck RFK jr.

Danmel

(5,740 posts)
13. I'm so sorry that your family is going through this
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:32 PM
Aug 2025

My kids were enrolled in a protocol at NIH, in a longitudinal study for plexiform neurofibromas which was canceled by they motherf*cker.

Lifeafter70

(827 posts)
19. Hugs to you it is hard on a parent when
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:58 PM
Aug 2025

that small glimmer of hope is dashed.
That asshole has no idea how much this research is needed. He does not understand it so he stops it.

Again Fuck RFk jr.

gulliver

(13,828 posts)
11. Elections have consequences
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:27 PM
Aug 2025

Harris and Walz had the right message, but we had way, way too many self-elected radical voices and fair-weather, selfish "allies." RFK Junior is the result. We also lost a lot of male working class of all ethnicities and, unfortunately, even union members like the Teamsters. We need to get back to real Democratic values and to get our signal-to-noise ratio back under control with respect to the fringe. They can come to the party of course, but if they don't have majority backing or any democratic claim to validity based on one-person-one-vote, they don't get to pick the pizza.

onenote

(46,079 posts)
22. The blood of the police officer shot and killed in Georgia is on his hands
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 03:19 PM
Aug 2025

If, as has been reported, the shooter was targeting CDC because he believes he was made ill by the COVID vaccine -- a claim consistent with what RFK Jr has been saying.

womanofthehills

(10,794 posts)
28. Has anyone read much about this?
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 03:32 PM
Aug 2025

Forbes - “Emergence Of IgG4 In Long-Term Vaccines: Winning Or Losing The Race?”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2023/01/13/emergence-of-igg4-in-long-term-vaccines-winning-or-losing-the-race/

“Is it bad, is it good, or is IgG4 just misunderstood?”

“Repeated doses of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 result in increased proportions of anti-spike antibodies of the IgG4 subclass, which are known to neutralize well and to form mixed immune complexes with IgG1 but, in a pure form, might be less effective than IgG1 or IgG3 antibodies in facilitating opsonization by phagocytes, complement fixation, and NK cell–dependent elimination of infected cells (see related Research Article by Irrgang et al.).”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adg7327

Botany

(76,818 posts)
35. This also stops the development of a new vaccine against the COVID virus and all the new mutations of the virus.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 04:47 PM
Aug 2025

They are close to identifying a morphological characteristic that is a constant in the C-19 virus no matter what
new strain of the virus comes down the path.

When I got an E. coli infection in my gut that went septic and it almost killed me I got a wicked case of COVID
in a nursing home that most likely would have killed me but I had gotten the vaccinations and I didn’t die.

Turns out that RFK Jr.’s anti vaccine quest is fueled by the millions he has taken in from a law firm that
specializes in suing vaccine manufacturers.

BurnDoubt

(1,592 posts)
36. This is the lazy man's eugenics.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 04:51 PM
Aug 2025

"You're Dead. You were WEAK. LOSER!"
I cant remember which Gospel this is from.......

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