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Deadly consequences
— Dcmfox (@dcmfox.bsky.social) 2025-08-09T18:53:31.657Z
sinkingfeeling
(57,545 posts)yardwork
(69,132 posts)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.
sinkingfeeling
(57,545 posts)yardwork
(69,132 posts)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.
live love laugh
(16,274 posts)mucifer
(25,614 posts)his dad didnt do this horror.
But its important info to post to DU so thanks
Xavier Breath
(6,570 posts)Still gives him too much prestige and legitimacy. "Bob 2" seems more fitting. "Idiot son" is always good.
yardwork
(69,132 posts)Dulcinea
(9,898 posts)Or Bobby Brainworm. Either one works.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,286 posts)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.
Xavier Breath
(6,570 posts)erronis
(23,268 posts)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)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)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)And I talk about this all day on social media, Kennedy is going to kill millions of us starting this winter theres no question about that because no ones doing a goddamn thing about it and barely anybodys talking about it.
rampartd
(4,355 posts)but i fear we will lose thousands to influenzas from this 1 man and his enablers.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,282 posts)He will kill millions
dedl67
(195 posts)... 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.
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.
Whiskeytide
(4,648 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(10,770 posts)Lifeafter70
(827 posts)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)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)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)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.
FoggyLake
(311 posts)...and making decisions for him.

3825-87867
(1,862 posts)He's just an unconscionable prick!
onenote
(46,079 posts)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.
surfered
(12,509 posts)
surfered
(12,509 posts)
womanofthehills
(10,794 posts)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 celldependent elimination of infected cells (see related Research Article by Irrgang et al.).
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adg7327
MissouriDem47
(403 posts)Is trying to kill us.
niyad
(130,847 posts)Botany
(76,818 posts)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 didnt 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)"You're Dead. You were WEAK. LOSER!"
I cant remember which Gospel this is from.......