Robert F. Kennedy Jr., independent challenger for president and anti-vaccine activist, has a cockamamie solution for drug addicts and people who use medication for depression or ADHD: strip people of their tech gadgets and send them to government-funded "wellness farms" to grow organic food. Doesn't that sound suspiciously... like a labor camp?! Kennedy extolled this […]
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Not as big a deal, but he also wants to get rid of your WiFi and your cell phone:

    Departing momentarily from fake vaccine claims, the gang also had a long discussion about the purported dangers of wifi. Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization that Kennedy founded and is the chairman of, has long made a number of false claims about electromagnetic, wireless, and 5G technologies. Kennedy suggested that “wifi radiation” could be causing autism, food allergies, asthma, eczema, or other chronic illnesses, which Rogan, in a rare show of basic critical thinking, suggested was “unlikely.”

    “I think it degrades your mitochondria and it opens your blood-brain barrier,” Kennedy said, confidently.

    Rogan paused and then turned to his producer, Jamie, who often acts as the show’s researcher by Googling things. “Do you see anything online about that?” he asked. After a moment in Google, Rogan paused again.

    “Oh my God,” he said, finally, “we gotta get rid of wifi.”

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/spotify-rogan-rfk-vaccine-misinformation-policy/

    Too bad Joe Rogan is such an idiot. I would have asked RFK Jr. to define mitochondria. It would have made for amusing listening.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      I had to deal with so many of those people who insisted that their ‘wifi’ radiation is like an unshielded nuclear reactor. I would do my best to assauge their concerns… I was in customer service at the time.

      Now seeing someone like that in a very important position I find myself wondering if there is even a point to all this.

      • randon31415@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 days ago

        I have a feeling that people are starting subconsciously understand cell-phone and social media additiction and its effect on the brains of developing children, but can’t quite conceptualize it. So they turn to “wifi is dangerous because… radiation!”