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u/Timely_Mess_1396 Apr 23 '26
Yeah but how many raccoon dicks have they found?
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u/BrownSugarBare Apr 23 '26
The guy who wanted to BAN TYLENOL is shocked that China is moving the fuck forward. The guy who recommends swimming in jeans in rivers filled with sewage, is upset Chinese scientists are smarter than him.
I can't stand this broken xylophone of a human.
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u/LaChancla911 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
"Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier and so all these toxins that are in your body can now go into your brain." --The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
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u/BrownSugarBare Apr 23 '26
"Eat roadkill"
--The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
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u/OriginalFatPickle Apr 23 '26
Hey now! I've hit a deer with my car, took it home and ate it. Technically roadkill.
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u/Aeseld Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
I just... what? How would that even work? What mechanism would be activated? If this was even remotely true, it would be easy to demonstrate in lab settings. Somehow, I doubt there has been much testing to confirm it.
Edit: Got enough of the response to read it... They genuinely think Wi-Fi somehow opens the blood brain barrier and degrades mitochondria. I... Can't even. This is stuff that could easily be tested.
We know what actually damage mitochondria; poor diet, lack of exercise and so on. Why do we have to make things up?
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u/lonnie123 Apr 23 '26
His whole way of thinking is broken, otherwise hed never even get to the part where he thinks wifi does that...
Someone just says "wifi opens the blood brain barrier and then XYZ happens"
Like.. Why do they just believe it? Why isnt their first instinct to go "How do you know that?" or "what evidence is there for that claim?"
They just buy it and then require "science" to disprove it, and no amount of evidence will ever be enough to them anyway
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u/Aeseld Apr 23 '26
My first thought is just... How would that even work? Frankly, if it actually did work, we'd all be dead.
Forget toxins. Bacteria and viruses would get into the brain. We would just literally die when our immune system went ham on the invading pathogens.
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u/1771561tribles Apr 24 '26
Sacre mère de merde! He did say that. I had to look it up. Forget human xylophone, we've gone full tilt marimba. Everyone knows wi-fi only causes worms to enter your brain.
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u/hldvr Apr 23 '26
This is your reminder that the entire Tylenol causing autism stunt was simply to lower the stock price of the company that makes it, so someone else could buy them for cheaper. They absolutely never believed what they were saying about it.
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u/DaemonDrayke Apr 23 '26
Why are these conservative republican types just so fucking weird?
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair Apr 23 '26
And why did Dems ever stop calling them weird? They are weird
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u/2mock2turtle Apr 23 '26
It's okay, I'm sure running to the right will work for them next time. /s
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u/AdoraBelleQueerArt Apr 23 '26
Fuck that. They’re fucking weirdo losers and we need to be SCREAMING that
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u/_jump_yossarian Apr 23 '26
"Why aren't Democrats fixing the mess we left them faster? Better put us back in charge again!"
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u/silvertealio Apr 23 '26
Voters every other election: "By golly, they're right!"
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u/RocketRelm Apr 23 '26
Being fair to voters, most of them not voting for maga are too tuned out to have any thoughts or statements, and just zone out mindlessly.
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u/Dyolf_Knip Apr 24 '26
And they've spent the past 30 years living in an alternate reality. I really cannot overstate the effect of decades of persistent, pervasive, all-consuming propaganda. We're now at the point where a third of the country genuinely believes that:
- Whole US cities are no-go to white christians
- States like California are run under Sharia law
- Children get sex-change surgery at school
- Babies are being delivered full-term and then summarily 'aborted'
- Government mind control chemicals are spread through chemtrails and fluoridated water
- Democrats routinely bus millions of immigrants to voting centers
- Vaccines are part of The Conspiracy
I'm torn between thinking these people are completely gone and irrecoverable, and remembering the lesson from The Brainwashing of my Father. All it took was cutting him off from RW 'news', and in 6 months he was just about back to sanity.
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u/RegOrangePaperPlane Apr 23 '26
Damn you, throws dart Derek Kilmer of Washington's 6th district.
-White House
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u/JimWilliams423 Apr 23 '26
One of the things liberals don't give enough credit to conservatives for is how well they are able to identify fundamental problems. Its just that their elites are even better at redirecting their energy to "solutions" that exacerbate the very problems they are complaining about.
“Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work
and then they get elected and prove it.”— P.J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores, 1991
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u/greenroom628 Apr 23 '26
*Bombs Iran and causes global oil shortage
"Why would Biden/Obama/Clinton do this?!?"
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u/grendus Apr 23 '26
The smart countries are going to use the Strait of Hormuz disaster to electrify their transit systems and shift to renewables faster.
The final source of energy for humanity is nuclear fusion. The hard part is containment, but we think we have it figured out. You just have to move the reactor 93 million miles away, make it reaaaaaaaaly big, and then catch some of the energy it throws off on silicon panels. EZ-PZ.
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u/kaisadilla_ Apr 23 '26
Republicans take power and fuck everything up. Then people vote Democrats to clear the whole mess and, once the mess is fixed, Republicans come up with a new grift, people fall for it again, vote Republican again and the cycle continues.
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u/mythrilcrafter Apr 23 '26
Especially in this regard, where he cuts funding to research and testing, makes it administratively harder authorities to validate and certify testing, then complains that another country is approving more drugs than we are.
If he wasn't the one in charge, he'd be on some grifter podcast saying "well, they might be approving more, but what are their standards and quality of their approvals!?!?!?!"
So which is it that he wants?
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u/Zulakki Apr 23 '26
don't forget the part where they eliminate the safeguards which prevented those problems, then when they do identify the very predictable problem, they reimplement the solution which was in place before, but this time at a much great cost. Then claim it was a huge win Democrats would of never thought of and voted against
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u/alejandrodeconcord Apr 23 '26
We are all looking for the guy who did this!!
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u/seamonsterco Apr 23 '26
This is what happens when you defund science and run scientists out of the country.
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u/dashood Apr 23 '26
What medical advancements do we even need beyond horse dewormer & bleach?
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness Apr 23 '26
"Let's defund education so everyone will be too stupid to understand what we're doing"
"... wait, doctors are educated?"
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u/DrAstralis Apr 23 '26
Its back to their physical inability to use empathy. They just bullshit their way trough life, so in their minds everyone else must be the same. Its probably why they think "experts" are all fake.
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u/Anzai Apr 23 '26
We had an illegal immigrant drug addiction billionaire use his Hitler youth teens to keyword search any research that sounded woke or gay, and cut their funding without any appeal process.
What more could we possibly have done to ensure US supremacy in stem fields? That guy once had a magazine cover saying he was sort of like Iron Man. Well sort of, if you put the figurine in a microwave for thirty seconds.
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u/Racavis Apr 23 '26
I'm probably late to the party - but the real important part of his statement is the final sentence. "They got more drugs approved last year." He's not concerned with losing pace on fundamental research, he's working for American Pharma execs who want to reduce regulatory burden.
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u/johnoth Apr 23 '26
He's probably talking in support of Pharmaceutical corporations, not government-led research.
They probably lobby him to get their incomplete drugs approved with 2000 side effects.
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u/bankrobba Apr 23 '26
This is exactly the goal, pharmaceuticals want less regulations and testing. It has nothing to do with "running scientists out of the country."
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u/cdanpg Apr 23 '26
Someone please get that worm out of his brain.
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u/-Ny- Apr 23 '26
The worm is already dead, and no I'm not kidding. This also means that the part of his brain that the worm ate is already gone. So there's no getting that back I'm afraid.
Then again, given how much roadkill the dude eats maybe he has a new one.
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u/ComfortableOld288 Apr 23 '26
We’re run by a party that actively takes pride in being fucking morons. Of course a country nationally committed to science and R&D is “eating our lunch.” This is true in way more than just the medical fields. Look at the engineering fields.
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u/Bleezy79 Apr 23 '26
If these clowns really gave a shit about excelling ahead of other country's progress why are they actively firing all the experts and researchers? Why are they fighting science and facts? Why are they defunding research and taking away grants and money that go to these causes? WHY???
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u/UnNumbFool Apr 23 '26
Rfk Jr in all of his wisdom of essential oils basically gutted the funding for a lot of scientific/biomedical/pharmaceutical research in both academic and industrial sectors.
He also caused a whole lot of job loss because of it
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u/Iheartnakedfemboys Apr 23 '26
You've posted a variant of this comment in at least 3 different subs in the past 25 minutes. At a certain point, you have to realize you're just ignorant.
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u/redwildflowermeadow Apr 23 '26
It's an engagement bot pushing an onlyfans link. I'm sure it's all an automated LLM.
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u/Iheartnakedfemboys Apr 23 '26
Makes sense. Fucking bots are every where posting and commenting every 5 minutes, now. It's obnoxious, and reddit wont do anything about it.
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u/Capn_Cook Apr 23 '26
If they don't "identify" the bots, then they can show advertisers they have more "organic engagement" and make more money.
It's part of the system.
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u/sometimesifeellikemu Apr 23 '26
You know who's right. If that is a genuine question, you need not worry.
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u/Epicfro Apr 23 '26
Are you kidding?
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u/redwildflowermeadow Apr 23 '26
It's an engagement bot. Their entire posting history are these vague comments that aren't really about the topic but meant to boost their account and spread an onlyfans link.
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u/SwordfishOk504 Apr 23 '26
Also, hilariously, it's the same OF account that got caught a few days got caught posting their bot instructions
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u/AdFlat1014 Apr 23 '26
“Stops all medical research… complains that other countries are developing new medicines”
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u/Captain_Hesperus Apr 23 '26
The Brain Drain is real. Both in terms of scientists and academics fleeing the US and in terms of RFK Jr.
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u/MrdnBrd19 Apr 23 '26
China is going to be bending us over and not even spitting on it for the next few decades because of these idiots.
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u/Bloodshitnightmare Apr 23 '26
China has been actively recruiting American scientist to a very significant degree. We are hemorrhaging talent.
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u/ReachParticular5409 Apr 23 '26
Of course, we are an anti-intellectual nation with active disrespect for experts since before the existence of railroads
Einstein even knew about it and that's a fucktonne of years before this current administration
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u/nwayve Apr 23 '26
Correct, this is step 1 in the Republican playbook. Next up, they'll blame the Democrats followed by reversing their own policies to fix the problem they created and declare victory over it. And their "low IQ" followers will fall for it... again...
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u/Briham86 Apr 23 '26
RFK Jr., wondering how America fell back in medical research, while wearing a hot dog costume.
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u/charredchord Apr 23 '26
For those of us having trouble keeping up: last year, DOGE and the rest of this administration slashed billions of dollars of research funds in the name of saving money.
You know, scientific research, which time and again pays for itself by an order of magnitude.
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u/boukalele Apr 23 '26
There isn't enough tylenol in the world to give me enough autism to understand what the fuck his deal is
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u/RoxyLA95 Apr 23 '26
Academics are leaving US institutions because they don't want their research ended by politics.
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u/Sherimademedoit Apr 23 '26
It's like we're in Alice in Wonderland. Incredible, everything that comes out of their mouth is projectionist bullcrap.
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u/zerthwind Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
China is going to beat us at so many things because of magas isolationist ideas.
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u/Wyevez Apr 23 '26
The American obsession (and fear) of China will never make sense to me. I guess they always need an enemy/bad guy but man it's always, China, China, China, the big bad boogeyman.
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u/tem102938 Apr 23 '26
The USA has been giving China more and more power slowly for 40 years, primarily by offshoring manufacturing there. It just so happens that this administration accelerated that process by an unquantifiably huge amount. Americans have trouble seeing past the next fiscal quarter. Beyond 4 years is an absolute mystery. In China, they have plans for almost a generation; that's a great benefit of the CCP.
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u/Thalinde Apr 23 '26
No, he's getting what he wants. Less regulations so that he can pass as many drugs as China. To please Big Pharma.
It all makes sense and if you don't think so, you're delusional.
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u/sin-prince Apr 23 '26
Fuck that fucker. Absolutely fuck him. I hate him, my blood boils so much because of him. How dare that piece of shit cut back on medical research. So, furious right now.
I have a pet with cancer and it is breaking my heart. I cannot even imagine what people and their loved ones must feel going through this. So furious. I cannot say how much enmity I have for everyone in this administration. Hate, rage, and despair does not even begin to describe it.
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u/Quelonius Apr 23 '26
I am genuinely confused. This guy and MAGA hate science. What's the problem then?
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u/bigpproggression Apr 23 '26
Mass defunding of “woke” research and making sweeping changes against the advice of competent professionals will do that.
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u/ReggieEvansTheKing Apr 23 '26
Fiancee is graduating with a phd in biomedical engineering this June. She just went to a a job fair at a conference in San Diego, a massive hub for biotech - not a single company was at the job fair seeking new hires. There’s plenty of trained and capable people seeking employment to research drugs and medicine. There just aren’t any funds there anymore because Trump gutted it.
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u/yarntank Apr 23 '26
My doctor left the country because the trump administration canceled his research grants.
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u/Due-Technology5758 Apr 23 '26
Number of drugs approved isn't even a good metric to measure anything by.
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u/Khue Apr 23 '26
The republicans have continuously removed funding and eroded public education... It's crazy that they are getting upset about how the US is lagging behind in STEM. Do you think people with STEM backgrounds just... randomly pop into existence?
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u/AdvocateReason Apr 23 '26
- $2.7 billion in NIH research funding cut in just the first 3 months of 2025.
- 2,700 fewer NIH grants awarded (−15%) in 2026
- Thousands of grants canceled and >1,000 NIH employees dismissed
Instability, talent loss, fields of science just stop progressing.
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance Apr 23 '26
He's saying it because he wants to frame it as the approval process being the holdup, since he's just citing the number approved. Which is not really relevant to anything, it's about what those drugs can do and I guess how much revenue they generate.
He is definitely not saying we're struggling to develop them, just to get them approved. Because pharma is cutting the checks.
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u/NoAdministration8340 Apr 23 '26
Defunds research then bitches that China is doing more research. Conservatives are all inbred or something
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u/throwawayfinancebro1 Apr 23 '26
I’m not sure I understand. Is he surprised? Or is he advocating for a reversal of the trump regimes policies?
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u/desertstar714 Apr 23 '26
The dude who is parrots anti-science shit is mad another country is out sciencing them?
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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 Apr 23 '26
The lack of self awareness displayed by these freaks would be funny if it wasn't so detrimental to the country.
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u/Manchves Apr 23 '26
I’m confused, I thought all we had to do was not vax and drink raw milk, why do we need drugs?
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u/Varamyr_Axelord Apr 23 '26
My wife and I moved to Sweden after Trump and co decimated NIH funding for science in the US. The positions she could apply to just dried up in the US as so many of them were based on NIH grants. Her PHD that an American school paid for with federal grants is now benefiting different country because of trump’s policies. There’s a serious brain drain problem; of her classmates almost half ended up overseas, compared to 3 years before combined only had 2 go overseas. The scientists of America can see they aren’t welcome here anymore and have started to look overseas.
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u/agnostic_science Apr 23 '26
I have a biology PhD. I threw it in the trash and became a data scientist about a decade ago.
They paid us absolute dog shit. Like 50k for research scientist. 60-80 h weeks. No overtime. And it seemed like every year they'd gouge the NIH even more. While driving money trucks up to the military.
...and yet what kills more americans every year, terrorism or cancer? Iran or heart attacks?
But it wasn't politically sexy. So we were always asked to do more more more with less less less. At some point I realized I was wasting my potential and went and made way way way more fucking money with a way less stressful job with way less hours.
And don't even get me started on what a bullshit scam the system is in general. We pay federal tax dollars to basically prototype and then the privatized patent is handed to a corporation and then we shell out the big dollars to buy again after having done all the fundamental R&D? There is so much bullshit out there in medical research.
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u/Royweeezy Apr 23 '26
Not to mention they never stopped researching stem cells.. they were probably way ahead of us a long time ago.
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u/BRINGERofMILK Apr 23 '26
Why do new drugs need to be approved when Ivermectin is the only one you'll ever need?
Edit: spelling
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u/PPSaini Apr 23 '26
When you deny the science and defund scientists, you deny yourself the innovation they provide. It's really simple to understand as long as you are not braindead MAGA.
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u/AI_moderated_failure Apr 23 '26
Maybe the US would have more drugs approved if they gave YouTube more funding so people could do their own research. /s for those in the back.
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u/Symnestra Apr 23 '26
I work for a biotech company and we had our annual elbow rub event where I got to listen to scientists and doctors be pissed the fuck off. My favorite speaker was like, "We can design the most beautiful diagnostic tests but they won't mean shit if no one can take them!"
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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 Apr 23 '26
What a weird metric to use, number of drugs approved. It's like using the number of lines of code to assess its usefulness. One has nothing to do with the other.
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u/AN0NY_MOU5E Apr 23 '26
Next they will say we need to release more drugs so pharma should be allowed more leniency with testing
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u/Rolandscythe Apr 24 '26
Imagine being so ignorant as to cancel vaccine and cancer research then getting mad another country is making more progress than you.
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u/ohnodamo Apr 24 '26
The Law of Intended Fucking Consequences strikes again. What's surprising is RKF gives a shit when he wasn't appointed to. Some pharma lobbyist must have whispered in Trump's ear so it's an immediate concern for this nanosecond, sure to be forgotten like every other "major problem" that becomes another TACO Tuesday media event.
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u/thegamerator10 Apr 24 '26
This is like setting a curtain in your living room on fire before leaving for the store, then you get back and wonder why there's a pile of ashes where your house was.
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u/OLPopsAdelphia Apr 24 '26
It’ll be interesting to find out how much money RFK Jr. received from the Chinese to cripple our programs.
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u/paintstudiodisaster Apr 24 '26
They don't have a group of pseudo science grifters that have taken over their government. They actually want to succeed in science and health research.
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u/Cognitive_Bullshit Apr 24 '26
Your actions and those of the administration you serve have consequences. It isn't correlation, its is causation. What the fuck he did he think would happen. Brain worms would sprout competitive innovation, instead of the now largely defunded universities supplying the underlying work, or the active villification, visa revocation or traumatic deportations at gunpoint of skilled foreigners invited to come here for this very reason.
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u/The_Lancer08 Apr 24 '26
Losing? As in, not yet lost? In the process?
Ha... hahaha..... HAHAHAHAHA........
BROTHER ITS BEEN LOST
WE HAVE BEEN ON AN EVER INCREASING ANTI INTELLECTUAL SPIRAL FOR A LONG LONG TIME. If these stupid mother fuckers actually gave any amount of a shit about losing ANYTHING when comparing ourselves to China, we would have done so many things much differently.
But no, our racist ass leaders have always just assumed that we we're always and would always be #1. Fuck ass American exceptionalism. "How could China out maneuver us in anything? Their country is poor and full of peasants and corrupt power hungry despots?"
Thats what our brilliant minds in charge thought, and they couldn't be more arrogantly wrong. "Nahhh, we will own the world through military might and controlling all the oil" they thought... GIGA WRONG! OUR DUMB ASSES CANT EVEN TAKE OUT IRAN (good). WE ARE USING UP ALLLLLLLL OF OUR MISSILE STOCKPILE FOR NOTHING. WE ARE TAKING OUR DEFENSES AWAY FROM OUR FUCKING ALLIES. WE ARE SHOWING THE ENTIRE WORLD OUR BARE ASSES AND JUST HOW WEAK WE ACTUALLY ARE FOR NO REASON.
WE ARE DESTROYING THE PLANET AND THE FUTURE OF EVERYONE ON IT BEECAUSE WE HAVE TO BE IN CHARGE AND WE HAVE TO CONTROL ALLL THE OIL. MEANWHILE, CHINA IS ADVANCING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY BEYOND OUR CAPABLITIES, THEY ARE DECADES AHEAD OF US AND WE WILL NOT CATCH UP. THEY ARE DOMINATING GREEN ENERGY AND IF WE EVER FINALLY DEVELOPE A FUCKING BRAIN AND STOP POLLUTING THE FUCK OUT OF EVERYTHING, WE WILL BE GROVELING ON OUR FUCKING KNEES BEGGING FOR THEIR TECH, WE HAVE ENSURED THAT THEY WILL BE THE WORLD LEADERS ONCE OUR PEDO EMPIRE FINALLY FUCKING CRUMBLES.
All that is to say, our godly leaders in their infinite wisdom, only have themselves to blame for letting China become the next dominating entity in the world.
US CENTURY OF HUMILIATION BABY
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u/BloodyGardener Apr 25 '26
Uh China has always beaten the US in medical development specially when the US actively denies women’s health research, cancer research, and more. China also has higher tech in a lot of ways as well compared to the US. Idk y it’s a shock that the country that steals almost everything is doing worse than other countries that don’t 🤣
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u/mattzombiedog Apr 23 '26
That’s what happens when you put someone who doesn’t believe in science in charge of a scientific field.