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I presume they're flying there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfW...

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RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet WASHINGTON—In an address touting the practice as a completely drug-free method to relieve the common affliction, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demonstrated Thursday how ...

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

Cutting edge science selects for persistence in the face of criticism. It's a fine line between that and spiralling into the sunk cost fallacy.

ACT Up SF was taken over by denialists backed financially by wealthy venture capitalist Robert Leppo. He bankrolled Duesberg's lab, as well as denialist films, conferences and other projects including legal misadventures. Most of the members left to form the rival chapter Act Up Golden Gate.

Jan 27th-5pm PT • CHD UpClose: From AIDS to COVID - Children's Health Defense California Chapter Tuesday, January 27, 2026 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm - Join us for the first UpClose event of 2026 as we take a critical look at the parallels between the AIDS crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Our panel of ...

Many of them are the same people. When HIV/AIDS denialism died out in the mid 2010s due to the deaths of most of the HIV positives among them, some of the survivors migrated to groups like RFK Jr's anti vax group Children's Health Defence. ca.childrenshealthdefense.org/events/jan-2...

The HIV denialism chapters were contributed by Celia Farber, John Lauritsen, probably Neenyah Ostrom and others from the denialist pantheon, and leaned heavily on Torsten Engelbrecht's "Virus Mania" (which is why RFK Jr had trouble remembering what was actually in the book he supposedly authored).

Median survival after infection is more than 10 years, so most people infected after 1990 lived to see the rollout of effective treatment in the second half of that decade. Magic got access a little earlier than most, but not by much. www.newsweek.com/magic-johnso...

Professional responsibilities of biomedical scientists in public discourse - PubMed This article describes how a small but vocal group of biomedical scientists propagates the views that either HIV is not the cause of AIDS, or that it does not exist at all. When these views were rejected by mainstream science, this group took its views and arguments into the public domain, actively …

Having failed to convince anyone knowledgable about the disease, he and his supporters then targeted vulnerable individuals in the HIV community without the scientific background to assess his claims. This was seriously unethical, and catastrophic in its results. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14872076/

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 detected in all seropositive symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals - PubMed Between February 1987 and October 1988, peripheral mononuclear blood cells (PBMC) from 409 adult individuals antibody positive by Western (immuno-)blot for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) (56 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS] patients, 88 patients with AIDS-related complex, and 2 …

HIV could be demonstrated in all or most patients with AIDS and in nearly all people with HIV antibodies by the end of the 1980s. How were these relevant "questions" or "paradoxes" in 2003, let alone 2026? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2298875/

The problem was not that the medical world didn't understand his "questions" - it was that they simply demonstrated his profound ignorance of the disease. eg:

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Magic Johnson started combination antiretroviral therapy with David Ho in 1994. AZT was still part of his combo treatment as late as 2011. www.newsweek.com/magic-johnso...

It's unfortunate that one badly-written abstract could spawn such a stupid and persistent HIV/AIDS denialist meme - thanks to a certain SF lawyer who doesn't understand scientific literature (and coincidentally was Duesberg's favourite attorney).

If you read the 1993 paper (and no HIV/AIDS denialist ever has to my knowledge) it's obvious why there were no transmissions in the prospective study, while there were 70 transmissions in the crossectional: there was very little unprotected sex happening in the couples followed prospectively.

The abstract of the 1997 paper is a dog's breakfast, flipping between the two studies. In the text of the 1997 paper the prospective study is mentioned only in passing, and you are referred to the earlier paper for details.

A few years after starting the cross sectional study she also started a separate prospective study - to examine the effectiveness of safer sex interventions. It was in this different study that no transmissions occurred.

There is an unfortunate error in the first sentence of the abstract. Padian did conduct a 10 year study of heterosexual HIV transmission "to examine rates of and risk factors", but it was *cross-sectional* (retrospective), not prospective.

He didn't write the AIDS chapters in "The Real Anthony Fauci" himself. These were contributed by denialists, principally Celia Farber and John Lauritsen, probably Neenyah Ostrom and possibly others. Which is why they are scientifically and historically rubbish and sometimes internally contradictory.

RFK probably doesn't deny HIV causes AIDS himself, although he equivocates on the issue. Rather, his promotion of AIDS denialist beliefs is more about pandering to a segment of his nutcase supporter base. It's about political ambition, not scientific understanding (of which he has none).

*completes biiiiiiiig stretch* What's up dog?

Tasmania 0%. Shhhh - don't tell them. Hobart is going to take off as an export hub.

What he *believes* is irrelevant. What matters to him is whether the false narratives he promotes are *useful* to him personally and politically. His book includes several chapters of unopposed long-discredited HIV/AIDS denialist lies and talking points: it's all about rage-baiting the ignorant.

Good health care is expensive so all countries like yours and mine (Australia) socialise the costs so everyone can have affordable access. The US is unique in ceding control to middlemen who profit from excessive charges while denying care to those who need it.

The US's poor value for money in healthcare is because it is the ONLY industrialised country in the world to have rejected government-funded universal healthcare. You might think this is normal, but everybody outside the US knows you are crazy.

Yes, all four. 1, 2, and 4 are self evident. Understanding 3 requires a deeper dive into RFK Jnr's history and aspirations. For example, why is he resurrecting long-discredited HIV/AIDS denialist tropes from decades ago?

Always thought that Penelope Keith would've made a great Dr Who.

Hating Fauci is not the primary purpose. The main purpose is to rage-bait a constituency of the ignorant and terminally online who have no understanding of the issues under contention. Students of mid 20th century European history recognise what they're doing, and where this ultimately leads.

The revival of this discredited conspiracy theory by people like RFK Jr and his main source Celia Farber in 2025 for their own political gain is staggering, as is their manipulation of ill informed mobs with no knowledge of the facts other than RFK Jr's book of lies.

AZT monotherapy was a mediocre treatment for AIDS that added a few months to survival at best. But combined with 3TC and a third antiviral its effect was near miraculous. The idea that AIDS deaths in the 80s and early 90s were caused by AZT rather than HIV was an invention of the HIV/AIDS Denialists