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[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay, I used to work for a supplement distributor, and I'm going to explain to you how the supplement industry works. You'll then be able to see how they intend to pull this kind of BS.

Determine whether you will sell to weight loss, skin care, or masculine fragility. Now go find yourself a Third World country, the usual is Brazil because it has a considerable population and a fairly large medical establishment. Find a study that was done that addresses in some fashion what you're trying to sell. The study will probably be of a small population and have a slight effect on a small percentage of that population.

Now you can go ahead and market your product and claim that a medical study says that some people will see an effect. Let your marketing people go ahead and spin that however they want, you've got your evidence.

Now do you see how the brainworm's CDC is going to go ahead and push whatever point of view he wants?

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To what end? Just to kill your own supporters?

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're going to ban vaccines outright.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hazor@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's simply because they're stupid. They think they're saving people from autism and that vaccines either don't prevent illness or are no longer necessary. That's literally all it is in this case.

It comes from the hubris that they could possibly know better about medicine than the consensus of actual medical doctors and medical scientists. A lot of people buy into conspiracies because the feeling that they have some secret/superior knowledge makes them feel special, and here we are because RFK Jr just really wants to feel like a special boy and is too clueless to realize he doesn't have a clue.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I thought they were concerned about flouride lowering IQ yet they want to "cure" autism, curious 🤔