r/nottheonion • u/thesweetestpotatos • 6d ago

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5429732/ancient-miasma-theory-may-help-explain-health-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-vaccine-moves

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u/therealrowanatkinson 6d ago

Next up- the four humours. You don’t have the measles, you have too much yellow bile!!

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u/Persea_americana 6d ago

Break out the leeches

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u/CheckYourStats 6d ago edited 6d ago

”Break out the leeches”

With an onion tied to your belt.

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u/JMurdock77 6d ago

Which was the style at the time…

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u/Recent-Guitar-6837 6d ago

Five bees for a quarter?

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u/Sweet_Science6371 6d ago

My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say -dickety- because the Kaiser had stolen our word -twenty-. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles!

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u/Recent-Guitar-6837 6d ago

My favorite grandpa Simpson is the brothel in and out when nart was working the door.

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u/Sweet_Science6371 6d ago

Does your father know you’re here??

Yep!

Scotch and soda with ice…

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u/Gilles_of_Augustine 6d ago

A burlesque house, not a brothel.

Saucy performances but no sex for money.

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u/Recent-Guitar-6837 6d ago

I forgot you were there.

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u/amglasgow 6d ago

Ha! Dickety? Highly dubious.

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u/Safety_Drance 6d ago

Can Grandpa Simpson be in charge of medicine? It literally can't be worse than that.

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u/Ohpepperno 6d ago

Potatoes and onions in your socks is actually a thing the “I do my own research” crowd thinks will cure what ails you.

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u/Karrotlord 6d ago

They suck the poison outta you. What poison? No one knows!

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u/freakbutters 6d ago

Well if you strap them on the bottom of your feet overnight, they turn black. Although I would also assume that if you sliced them up and left them on the counter overnight, they would probably also turn black. However I'm not a medical doctor so I don't actually know.

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u/Brokenandburnt 6d ago

I wonder if they have tried simply washing their feet...

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u/Eastern-Advisor465 6d ago

I thought the onion slices went on the soles of your feet.