• 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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    Unlike vitamin C, vitamin A is fat-soluble and overdose can result in death. Vitamin A deficiency is rare in developed countries so what he’s suggesting is that people risk poisoning themselves with no proven benefit for measles.

    The CDC in the past has not done a good job at quantifying the risk of vaccines — we are going to do that now

    Politicians are not scientists. Scientists understand what they are not, but it would seem like politicians such as RFK Jr are struggling with this.

  • PenguinMage@lemmy.world
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    “Misleads” fuck this soft shoe, “rfk Jr falsely claims something will work that won’t”

    I know saying “lies” is hard for reporters due to lible claims, but fucking say it’s wrong at least.

    • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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      Worse actually. Vitamin A is easy to overdose on, it’s a fat-soluble vitamin, and people have died from vitamin A toxicity. So they now have both the risk of serious complications and/or death from measles, and the risk of serious complications and/or death from vitamin A toxicity.

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      And probably a very interesting way to spread the knowledge that yes, you can overdose on vitamins.

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      Worse than that since you can actually kill yourself by taking too much vitamin A. It’s more like trying to treat the measles by playing Russian roulette.

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    It feels like we’re about 5 minutes away from RFK Jr recommending injecting each other with …I dunno…artisanal organic chlorine bleach or something.

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        and of course there is a high likelihood that the parents are vaccinated while witholding the same protection from their kids.

        I am very tired - please make the crazy stop.

  • fernfrost@lemmy.world
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    The new admins don’t care about the poor & uneducated. The new American dream is ‘get rich or get fucked’

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    Quick someone call Dr. Wallach and Ben Fuchs and then someone needs to soft boil and shit load of eggs in Carnivora.