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Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure (arstechnica.com)

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“The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in one year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm,” the journal’s editorial board wrote in its latest issue.

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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The amount of people who RFK has already murdered is intense but looking back RFK will be seen as one of the key figures of the final, utter collapse of the social safety net in the US. He is going to be responsible for tens of thousands of deaths if not hundreds of thousands. This is not hyperbole.

Hey but whatever, glad centrists shut down any prospect of progressive change in healthcare, I am sure we will just be able to move back to a moderate position after all this blows over and everything will work out!

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 20 points 2 months ago

The CDC flip-flop masking during COVID probably killed thousands of people all by itself. RFK has actively undermined the credibility of federal health resources to a point where rational intelligent people are rightly ignoring them. It will absolutely kill millions over the years it takes to recover (assuming that we even start recovering).

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Covid was a novel virus they were mostly doing their best wrt public policy. It’s not at all comparable to what’s going on now, reversing decades of proven science progress.