He knows that’s not how our children are sposed to look.
RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today…and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection pic.twitter.com/svfdIqAntK
Well, from the look & sound of him, as well as from the nature of his ideas & actions, RFKJ, is over-burdened with challenges, and rather larger ones than mitochondrial ones.
iknklast: Ya might want to be careful with that particular rhetorical tack. “Why are you looking,” is a common tactic for those who sexualize children to do some conversational aikido and paint the person pointing out child safety issues as a predator. It’s also not far from how TRAs say, “Why do you think about children’s genitals so much?”
Well, I should have thought “child safety” is a rather important issue with RFKJ in charge of health for the nation. I confess to also finding it creepy that RFKJ (a man who bears considerable responsibility for a number of children’s deaths in Samoa, and will, I fear, be bearing an even greater responsibility where children’s deaths are concerned in the USA) is going around looking at children in airports and then babbling publicly about the “mitochondrial challenges” that he claims to be able to detect from their “faces, movements, and lack of social connexion”. All very empirical, I am sure — quite in line with the Royal Society’s motto: Nullius in verba. “Creepy”: producing the sensation of a creeping of the flesh; inspiring a feeling of revulsion; an adjective used to describe an unpleasant person (OED). All of which definitions describe my feelings about RFKJ, as well as virtually every, if not every, member of Trump’s cabinet, and, of course, “Daddy” Trump himself.
What’s really creepy is that he’s stupid enough to treat his “looking at kids” as he walks through airports as a valuable source of evidence that they are “overburdened with inflammation.”
Whatever the situation with the kids he inspects at airports, RFKJ is not certainly overburdened with inflammation — rather the opposite, I think. Someone recently compared his face to a 100-year-old baseball glove.
Yes, what is it to be “overburdened with inflammation”? Perhaps Trump’s (tiny) hands, as well as his ankles, might be good examples of that particular disorder.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen commented above RFKR’s comment on X:
Scientist here. Mitochondria do not present challenges to faces, movements, or social connections. Maybe those kids don’t like you because you’re staring at them like a creep who wants to give them measles.
And Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, etc remarks:
Mitochondria are microscopic. You cannot diagnose “mitochondria challenges” by glaring at a child in an airport. What you can do is prey on parents’ fears with pseudoscience, while ignoring the real crisis our kids face, like gun violence, food insecurity, and lack of healthcare.
Another medical doctor describes RFJK’s post as:
This is wacky, flat-earth, voodoo stuff, people.
Even empirically minded, scientifically trained people whio live by the motto “nullius in verba” are willing to call RFKJ a “creep”. He is one, and so are Trump and all his grovelling cabinet.
It’s as good as a doctor’s diagnosis innit? Let’s go with RFKJ’s biased assessment based on appearance and behavior, because he knows what ‘normal’ looks like in his (reportedly (formerly?) parasite infested) head? Sure. The arrogance and conceit of the fool is blatant. Meanwhile the wholesale dismantling and delegitimizing of the HHS and CDC continues, which puts many people’s lives at risk. Trump sits back in smug support as expected. The absolute disaster of this administration, not just in healthcare, has a disturbing dystopian fiction feel to it — as if it’s not really happening — but it is. (Like a Covid or protracted 9/11 surrealish feel). I tried to stay optimistic, but that’s long gone. The biggest trouble is that if RFKJ is removed, the successor could be another of Trump’s demented, unqualified cronies. We see this with Monarez leaving the CDC and being replaced in the interim by O’Neill, who’s education is in the humanities, who has absolutely no medical education, is not even a scientist, and who, by all accounts has no talent except as a greedy biotech investor. Still, I can’t imagine anyone worse than RFKJ in the position he’s been appointed to, but Trump et al probably know several. It’s a bottomless swamp.
Hell, the existence of smartphones is enough to explain kids’ “lack of social connection”. Odds are high that this new technology is, in fact, having a host of negative impacts on kids, but sure, let’s blame vaccines, instead.
Maybe he should quit looking at kids in airports; that’s sort of creepy.
And I imagine he knows very little about mitochondria, since he seems to know little about other things.
Well, from the look & sound of him, as well as from the nature of his ideas & actions, RFKJ, is over-burdened with challenges, and rather larger ones than mitochondrial ones.
iknklast: Ya might want to be careful with that particular rhetorical tack. “Why are you looking,” is a common tactic for those who sexualize children to do some conversational aikido and paint the person pointing out child safety issues as a predator. It’s also not far from how TRAs say, “Why do you think about children’s genitals so much?”
Well, I should have thought “child safety” is a rather important issue with RFKJ in charge of health for the nation. I confess to also finding it creepy that RFKJ (a man who bears considerable responsibility for a number of children’s deaths in Samoa, and will, I fear, be bearing an even greater responsibility where children’s deaths are concerned in the USA) is going around looking at children in airports and then babbling publicly about the “mitochondrial challenges” that he claims to be able to detect from their “faces, movements, and lack of social connexion”. All very empirical, I am sure — quite in line with the Royal Society’s motto: Nullius in verba. “Creepy”: producing the sensation of a creeping of the flesh; inspiring a feeling of revulsion; an adjective used to describe an unpleasant person (OED). All of which definitions describe my feelings about RFKJ, as well as virtually every, if not every, member of Trump’s cabinet, and, of course, “Daddy” Trump himself.
What’s really creepy is that he’s stupid enough to treat his “looking at kids” as he walks through airports as a valuable source of evidence that they are “overburdened with inflammation.”
Whatever the situation with the kids he inspects at airports, RFKJ is not certainly overburdened with inflammation — rather the opposite, I think. Someone recently compared his face to a 100-year-old baseball glove.
Yes, what is it to be “overburdened with inflammation”? Perhaps Trump’s (tiny) hands, as well as his ankles, might be good examples of that particular disorder.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen commented above RFKR’s comment on X:
Scientist here. Mitochondria do not present challenges to faces, movements, or social connections. Maybe those kids don’t like you because you’re staring at them like a creep who wants to give them measles.
And Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, etc remarks:
Mitochondria are microscopic. You cannot diagnose “mitochondria challenges” by glaring at a child in an airport. What you can do is prey on parents’ fears with pseudoscience, while ignoring the real crisis our kids face, like gun violence, food insecurity, and lack of healthcare.
Another medical doctor describes RFJK’s post as:
This is wacky, flat-earth, voodoo stuff, people.
Even empirically minded, scientifically trained people whio live by the motto “nullius in verba” are willing to call RFKJ a “creep”. He is one, and so are Trump and all his grovelling cabinet.
It’s as good as a doctor’s diagnosis innit? Let’s go with RFKJ’s biased assessment based on appearance and behavior, because he knows what ‘normal’ looks like in his (reportedly (formerly?) parasite infested) head? Sure. The arrogance and conceit of the fool is blatant. Meanwhile the wholesale dismantling and delegitimizing of the HHS and CDC continues, which puts many people’s lives at risk. Trump sits back in smug support as expected. The absolute disaster of this administration, not just in healthcare, has a disturbing dystopian fiction feel to it — as if it’s not really happening — but it is. (Like a Covid or protracted 9/11 surrealish feel). I tried to stay optimistic, but that’s long gone. The biggest trouble is that if RFKJ is removed, the successor could be another of Trump’s demented, unqualified cronies. We see this with Monarez leaving the CDC and being replaced in the interim by O’Neill, who’s education is in the humanities, who has absolutely no medical education, is not even a scientist, and who, by all accounts has no talent except as a greedy biotech investor. Still, I can’t imagine anyone worse than RFKJ in the position he’s been appointed to, but Trump et al probably know several. It’s a bottomless swamp.
It’s nothing a dip in a sewage creek with your jeans on couldn’t cure.
As I recall, RFKJ took his children with him into the sewage creek.
He sees children with mitochondrial damage. Everyone else sees suntanned kids on their way home from holiday, tired after their flight.
He does have a vivid imagination, I’ll give him that.
A thoroughly creepy & perverted imagination, I would say. That’s all I would give him.
Hell, the existence of smartphones is enough to explain kids’ “lack of social connection”. Odds are high that this new technology is, in fact, having a host of negative impacts on kids, but sure, let’s blame vaccines, instead.