The Goat Pen

I disagree. I used to think a lot like you, but Ive now seen too many wild swings in public opinions and even in terms of experts opinions on this like this change wildly. And maybe some of it is me giving media too much credit and it’s something more like mob hysteria or something.

I suspect RFK Jr is just RFK Jr when working in both areas and yeah he probably has certain specialties and knowledge but people do not generally have some kind of weird polarity in their field where they are both insane and extremely competent at the same time. One of the two views is likely just wrong.

I don't know about his competence at all, I'm talking about his general stances on healthcare writ large, which I think are borderline whacky but in any case just plain wrong (obviously vaccines are the main area where he's far outside the mainstream, but there are other areas as well) and the environment writ large, where I think he has genuine concern and is generally "right" in his thinking about most of the environmental issues (obviously climate change is the biggy here, but my bro says he's done good work in many less high profile areas when it comes to environmental issues). As far as his competence in getting anything done in either of these areas, I have no idea, but I generally tend to support somebody whose general views on any given topic aligns with mine. As I said, I'd be very supportive of his nomination as head of the EPA. Regardless, he's an odd bird for sure..

"Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network." -RFK, Jr., 2002

hedge wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 4:23 pmHave I delved deeply into it myself? Not really, but my brother has, and I trust his opinion, just like I trust the opinion of one of my best friend's dad, who is a physician and emeritus professor of immunology at UAB, when it came to covid (he does not agree with RFK's views on covid or vaccines in general, to say the least).

What exactly did your best friend's dad, the emeritus professor of immunology at UAB, say about Dr Fauci and how he handled the covid pandemic? I too, am not interested in the media noise. I am interested in what he specifically said.