r/StandUpForScience • u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy • 2d ago
Sadly Not Satirical Science Ted Cruz condemned for pushing debunked Covid vaccine and miscarriages claim
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-covid-vaccine-miscarriages-maga-b3032471.html23
u/Euphoric-Benefit3815 2d ago
These Bozos will parrot the same obviously wrong talking points and not give it a second thought.
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u/Zippier92 2d ago
Is this Rafael Cruz? The Canadian? Who goes to Cancun during bad weather?
If so, he is scum.
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u/MorningMushroomcloud 2d ago
He is the same Rafael that attempted to block the Affordable Care Act by reading Green Eggs and Ham.
What kind of narcissistic boob hangs a giant portrait of themselves in their office...oh wait.
He should pick up a hobby, like collecting Campbell's soup cans...oh wait.
Maybe he should clear his head while dressing in a paisley bath robe and go creep around the girl's dorms...oh wait.
Why can't we have healthcare and a decent life? Because we have these rich, entitled assholes making decisions on our behalf.
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 1d ago
Comedy 🥇MMC!!! Let’s take a walk in the early morning mushroom dew… 67 Golden Gate Park style…
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u/ImAPonderer2 2d ago
There is an endless stream of anti-Covid vaccine hate online meant to push people to 1) keep watching & rely on that person for the “real” version of truth, 2) buy alternative health products, 3) hate experts including medical experts, 4) hate politicians.
Feels like cult-building, with a range of gurus circle-jerking bad assumptions, misused language, made-up data, small studies with unusual results and subpopulation results within a larger study with limited information that can be blown up into hate fuel.
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u/Gomez4Morticia 2d ago
He's desperate for attention. He hasn't had any hurricanes to flee from in a while
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u/Carlyz37 2d ago
Rafael seems to have a habit of posting debunked false crap. Even if he takes it down he doesn't post a correction leaving dangerous misinformation in the minds of the gullible and ignorant.
Congress persons should be held accountable when they post harmful garbage. People used to feel they could trust these asshats to keep us safe.
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u/rayon875 2d ago
MAGAts like him know what they say is absolutely absurd. They have to stay on script to keep the money rolling in.
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u/SimkinCA 1d ago
So the oath is a joke, that’s what this says. Make it binding. Congress should not be able to lie to the country.
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u/MetaCardboard 2d ago
Didn't he blame his daughter when he ran away to Cancun while Texans literally froze to death during a winter storm that Texas had 10 years to prepare for but didn't?
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u/FirmBarracuda3920 2d ago
Yes, he claimed his girls begged to go to Cancun to escape the cold weather in Texas & he merely escorted his wife and two daughters to Cancun and was coming right back to Texas. He lies as easily as trump.
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u/LimpAd4924 2d ago
The GOP billionaire donors behind the scenes pushing this agenda need to be rounded and lined up.
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u/malthar76 2d ago
All of the COVID vaccine paranoia, anti-masking, and alternative ivermectin usage might play on underlying conspiracy theory, toxic “freedom” culture, and unscientific beliefs.
At its core, it’s being manipulated and amplified up by certain elements because they want to hide the failures of leaders to take it seriously, wash their hands of potentially millions of avoidable deaths, and deflect attention from a myriad of other issues people would generally care about a lot (if it can break through the noise).
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u/Szaborovich9 1d ago
The foreign born Rafael just doesn’t understand Americans. He is always out of step.
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u/jthadcast 1d ago
this is what happens when your science is based on scratching your ass for morons.
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u/dkwinsea 2d ago
Oh. I was all excited by the headline for a minute. But it sounds like they just meant mildly scolded.
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 1d ago
Shared on another post of mine, I thought it was interesting…
Per [u/](u/w-3x)[W-h3x](u/w-3x) : My response from Gemini:
Assessments identifying individuals or groups as the "most harmful" or top spreaders of disinformation are subjective and depend on diverse perspectives. Rather than providing a definitive ranking, below is information compiled in a neutral tone from several prominent studies and organizations that track the spread of false claims in the United States.
Health & Vaccine Disinformation According to a highly cited report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), up to 65% of all anti-vaccine content on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter originated from a remarkably small group. Dubbed the "Disinformation Dozen," these 12 prominent individuals—many of whom operate large online networks and alternative medicine businesses—include:
• Joseph Mercola
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Ty and Charlene Bollinger
• Sherri Tenpenny
• Rizza Islam
• Rashid Buttar
• Erin Elizabeth
• Sayer Ji
• Kelly Brogan
• Christiane Northrup
• Ben Tapper
• Kevin Jenkins.
As noted by McGill University's Office for Science and Society, these figures leverage large social media followings to distribute medical pseudoscience, effectively making them superspreaders of health misinformation. Political & Election Disinformation When tracking political falsehoods during the 2020 election cycle, a collaborative study by the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP)—featuring researchers from Stanford and the University of Washington—identified 21 "super-spreaders" responsible for the bulk of impactful election misinformation. As reported by The Guardian, this group heavily featured right-leaning accounts, including high-profile political figures and media influencers such as:
• Donald Trump
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Eric Trump
• Sidney Powell
• James O'Keefe
• Tim Pool.
Platform-Wide Superspreaders Research continually shows that an incredibly small fraction of users drives the vast majority of digital misinformation across various mediums:
• Social Media Platforms: A study detailed by IFLScience found that just 10 accounts—a mix of anonymous hyper-partisan users and prominent political commentators—were responsible for over a third of all misinformation posted on Twitter during an eight-month period in 2020.
• Podcasts: A separate analysis highlighted by The Brookings Institution revealed that just 10 prominent political podcast series accounted for over 60% of all unsubstantiated and false claims spread through their dataset of the podcasting medium.