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The soft eugenics of MAHA: RFK Jr. on autism and Dr. Oz on your patriotic duty to be healthy

MAHA eugenics

Last month I referred to the “soft eugenics” of RFK Jr. and MAHA. More recently, he and Dr. Oz provided new examples, one about autism, the other about public health.

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Quoth Dave Mastio on the Flint water crisis: Don’t worry, be happy. Things were worse in the past

Drink up, people of Flint. David Mastio thinks you're being hysterical. After all, you would have been happy to have percentages of children with elevated blood lead levels this low in the past. So why are you upset now? David Mastio wants to know!

It’s been nearly three weeks since I wrote about how an imperative to save money at all costs combined with gross incompetence to poison Flint’s children with lead. In (very) brief, the city of Flint decided to switch from buying water from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) to a new water source. Unfortunately, […]

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How the Michigan state government poisoned the children of Flint

Flint, MI. How many children have been poisoned because of the city manager's decision to switch over to Flint River water to save a few bucks? What these officials are drinking are big glasses of intellectual disability and developmental delays.

This post will be different than my usual post. Let’s just say that it has to do with quackery of a different kind than I usually write about here. It’s about a public health disaster that was entirely preventable and had nothing to do with vaccines. It has to do with government malpractice on an […]