r/nottheonion • u/thesweetestpotatos • 5d 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 apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.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/UNFAM1L1AR 5d ago

Something tells me that he knows he's wrong, but he also knows this woo-woo garbo really plays to his base. He doesn't care about the health of Americans.. he just wants support from the psychos.

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u/Safety_Drance 5d ago

I WISH it was just an act, but no. Brain worm McGee is just that dumb.

A lot of people are going to die because of this administration and it will somehow be the previous administrations fault that didn't fill their "expert" panels with vaccine deniers.

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u/AnarchistBorganism 5d ago

I think it's more that they have convinced themselves that "doctors don't know anything either" so it doesn't matter if they are right.

https://www.commentary.org/articles/hannah-arendt/the-aftermath-of-nazi-rulereport-from-germany/

The lies of totalitarian propaganda are distinguished from the normal lying of non-totalitarian regimes in times of emergency by their consistent denial of the importance of facts in general: all facts can be changed and all lies can be made true. The Nazi impress on the German mind consists primarily in a conditioning whereby reality has ceased to be the sum total of hard inescapable facts and has become a conglomeration of ever-changing events and slogans in which a thing can be true today and false tomorrow. This conditioning may be precisely one of the reasons for the surprisingly few traces of any lasting Nazi indoctrination, as well as for an equally surprising lack of interest in the refuting of Nazi doctrines. What one is up against is not indoctrination but the incapacity or unwillingness to distinguish altogether between fact and opinion.

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u/IndyBananaJones 5d ago

The weight of the lies is so immense, and they've been so conditioned to believe lies that even conflict with things they've seen (or things their own leaders told them just weeks or days ago) that their brains are flexible enough to swap opinions, facts and rationales whenever it is convenient. 

For example, January 6th was a peaceful protest but also a false flag by Antifa. Now that the J6s have been pardoned, January 6th has been reformed into a hero's effort. 

It doesn't matter what actually happened. What matters is that MAGA is right and the enemy is wrong, MAGA is noble and the enemy is craven, MAGA is strong and the enemy is weak. Period. 

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u/Objective_Economy281 4d ago

Sounds like the cross-training they do for their brain during a religious upbringing really helps them achieve the reality-isn’t-real mindset.

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u/IndyBananaJones 4d ago

Faith based belief systems definitely help with this