The National Park Services bars all swimming and wading due to the health hazard.
    • ToastedRavioli@midwest.socialEnglish
      56·
      9 months ago

      In images shared on social media, Kennedy can be seen getting fully underwater, including his head, and then splashing around with several of his grandchildren. Kennedy, who does not have any background in medicine or science, was a long-time anti-vaccine advocate before President Trump appointed him to be health secretary. In a 2021 book, Kennedy indicated that he does not believe in germ theory, the fundamental concept that microscopic pathogens, such as those abundant in sewage, are the cause of disease.

      Prions have the opportunity to do the funniest thing

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        Heroin will turned his brains to mush after parasites turned it into swiss cheese

      • Schmoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Did the brain worm leave anything for the prions to replicate in or for the poor brain-eating amoeba?

  • itslilithEnglish
    141·
    9 months ago

    Stop calling everyone a “skeptic” and call them what they are: deniers. Anti-science, fact resistant deniers. Calling people germ-theory skeptics, or climate skeptics, or vaccine skeptics, and so on and so on, makes it sound like there’s an honest scientific debate going on

    • goodeye8@fedia.io
      39·
      9 months ago

      Exactly. Skepticism is about casting doubt on beliefs and dogmas, not outright rejecting facts. When it comes to germs and vaccines there’s scientific consensus on those matters. They’re as close to facts as you can get. But rejecting those you’re not a skeptic, you’re a denier. There’s no scientific debate on those topics, only a political debate on whether to reject science or not.

      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        I honest to God can’t believe how such fucking morons managed to get power. RFK jr. Would have been seen as a bigger crackpot than Alex Jones if he wasn’t RFK’s son.

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        He’ll be calling himself a ‘gravity-theory sceptic’ next and flinging himself off a building. It’s the only next logical step.

    • Schmoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I would plead for someone to show this man a microscope but I fear the conclusions he might draw.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    88·
    9 months ago

    If he gets some insane new parasite from this what are the odds it kills the one driving his brain now and takes over with a more normal personality?

  • Headofthebored @lemmy.worldEnglish
    68·
    9 months ago

    Usually the people in charge of regimes like this are often sadistic hypocrites and absolutely know that what they spout is bullshit. RFK jr. here on the other hand, is apparently actually a fucking idiot.

  • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.caEnglish
    63·
    9 months ago

    Wouldn’t it be an absolute riot of a “leopards ate my face” situation if he ends up croaking because of this?

    To clarify: I don’t wish any harm on his grandchildren, but this man’s level of willful ignorance and sheer recklessness makes it hard for me to sympathize with any negative outcome he may suffer personally.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    the creek’s bacterial counts—particularly E. coli counts—were dangerously high all the time.

    Sorry for those children.

    • Goldholz English
      15·
      9 months ago

      Worm or sickness? Who will be faster! MAKE YOUR BETS NOW!

      • Avicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        Funny enough not even Steve Jobs level money can save you if you prefer alternative treatments over modern medicine. Of course despite your stupidity you end up stealing a liver that actually someone else deserves more because you are stinking rich but even that does not prevent the inevitable.

  • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
    35·
    9 months ago

    Stuff like this isn’t a problem, until it is.

    What was in that sewage? Anybody with typhoid? Diphtheria? Probably not because vaccination and treatment is still over herd immunity levels. Then, of course, there were the kids who used to get vaccinated for Polio naturally by exposure to untreated sewage, and us rich countries having terrible cases of polio survival in older people because we didn’t bathe in toilet outflows.

    Thing is, it’s a numbers game. The first hundred people might not get sick, immediately, but if you form two lines, one bathing in the sewage pool and the other bathing in a treated sanitary pool, run 100 people a day through each one and track them for two weeks, you’ll see the differences. That’s why we have scientific publications, so we can read about these kinds of past experiments and don’t have to repeat them.

      • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Just like DeSantis & Co. getting their COVID jabs on camera, sitting around for 5 minutes and then saying “see: I’m fine, it’s not harmful.”

        Bashing low flow shower heads, engine stop-start at red-lights, and everything they hear anyone bitching about - this is the party of “give the people what they want!”

        What I want to know is: besides John McAfee, who wants to bathe in poo?

  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    9 months ago

    During similar conditions in the past it has had around 100x the EPA standard of bacterial colonies.

    And he’s hypocritical enough that I bet he started an antibiotic cocktail before he went there.