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  • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy is one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organizationEnglish
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    19 days ago

    the problem is more that these departments have repeatedly lied about and continued to allow the use of dangerous substances which eroded the trust with the public. This gave individuals like RFK the ounce of truth they needed to undermine them.

    ‘<minority group X> can totally be researched on without their consent’
    ‘PFAs are perfectly safe!’ (when used appropriately, and discarded after N years both of which never happen),
    ‘Mercury fillings are safe!’ (because we can’t actually measure the damage they do accurately enough to decouple it from natural damage, but they’re not actually safe),
    ‘Weed has no medical uses.’ (because we wouldnt allow it to be studied, turns out its very medically useful).
    ‘mdma/shrooms have no medical uses!’ (turns out they’re great at treating depression and a host of neurological conditions)
    ‘artificial food colorings are safe!’ (turns out they’re not and we’ve known it for years)
    ‘trans fats are safe!’ (they werent).
    ‘you dont need to wear masks to protect from covid’ (turns out we needed to wear masks)

    the list goes on and on. and in each case where we finally got these organizations to do whats best for the american populace at the expense of corporations it has taken a monumental effort despite the data basically being very clear or unambiguously safer alternatives being available.

    But each time a person suffers and learns about these things it puts another set of nails in the coffin for whether a randomly selected member of the population trusts them or not leading to people like RFK being able to take advantage of the mistrust.

    what you’re seeing now is the end result of these kinds of situations happening repeatedly. The hilarious part is RFK is probably going to accidentally do good over the long term by getting rid of the artificial food coloring finally. and if we successfully avoid this fascist regime from taking root (unlikely at this point given americans passivity) vaccine and such will come roaring back.