Lol I think it's probably cuz it had a level of satirical commentary baked in. I legit have never heard anyone, from any race or background, complain how it was done in tropic thunder. It wasn't to make fun of people of color like that often is.
And here I thought the heroine addiction was the most reasonable part about him. "My family was president, so they put me in charge of the planet health" -RFK, probably.
And this man is a true menace to public health. His ignorance with his self righteous guidelines are going to set the Americal medical profession back a hundred years.
More profit for the 'healthcare' execs. More believers in superstition to support the anti-science anti-democracy cult. The masses in even more misery and desperarion, easier to exploit, and easier to control.
The founding fathers were right in that there would always be the rich and powerful who want to roll back your rights, employment rights, political rights, everyday freedoms.
We became complacent, thought that all the hard won freedoms and rights were always granted to us, and would never be taken away. That no one died to give us these rights, that no one would have to die again to keep them.
Really sick of people saying "Americans deserve this".
No, the Americans who voted for this nightmare deserve it, a third of us are trapped in the consequences of the votes of the most stupid, malicious, and uniformed people in our nation. The idiots have taken over.
How do you know that swimming in a pond surrounded by willows in the light of the full moon won't cure my syphilis? There should be more time given to respectable alternative theories like this.
Even worse is that much promoted faith is cynical bullshit to convince the rubes. RFKjr truly only believes things that are instrumental do him gaining power.
I came here to say the same thing. Science absolutely needs to be in quotes, because itās nothing like actual real science being followed or conducted.
This guy is a true menace to American public health
You can read the article and you'll see it is not at all praising or supporting him. There's a reason they've used a picture of him with rosary beads while referring to science.
His cousin a Career diplomat said ā Caroline Kennedy sent a letter to members of the U.S. Senate in late January 2025, calling RFK Jr. a āpredatorā and arguing he is unqualified to run the Department of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump. She described him as addicted to attention and power .
I just heard Michael Scherrās interview on Pod save America. He sounded at times like he was physically struggling to keep down the middle of the road with his impressions of RFK jr.
The man is battling so many demons. Heās self professed to have been to actual hell and back.
Any other person on earth Iād almost feel empathy for the immense trauma he carries, and the personal struggles he will forever wrestle with.
But RFK jr isnāt any other person. Heās in a position which allows his own personal misguided vision of what is good and bad for people guide his decision making. Because of these choices, and the ones yet to be made, America is turning into a giant live science experiment to prove once and for all whether modern medicine and science truly is what is keeping people alive, healthy and safe.
All the rest of us can do is sit back and watch in horror as we watch infant mortality rates skyrocket; once eradicated virusā reanimate and thrive, and millions of people suffer.
I called Paul Offit, a pediatrician and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Childrenās Hospital of Philadelphia, and one of the most outspoken critics of Kennedyās vaccine views. [...] I asked Offit if he saw a way to reverse the publicās rising distrust in science. āI donāt think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost,ā he said.
Which is something I, sadly, think will at some point become the case within the next 3 years.
Lysenkoism[a] was a pseudoscientific political campaign led by the Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting natural selection in favour of a form of Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon the techniques of vernalization and grafting.
More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the Soviet campaign to suppress scientific opponents.[1][2][3][4] The president of the Soviet Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, who had been Lysenko's mentor, but later denounced him, was sent to prison and died there, while Soviet genetics research was effectively destroyed.[3][4] Research and teaching in the fields of neurophysiology, cell biology, and many other biological disciplines were harmed or banned.
The government of the Soviet Union (USSR) supported the campaign, and Joseph Stalin personally edited a speech by Lysenko in a way that reflected his support for what would come to be known as Lysenkoism, despite his skepticism toward Lysenko's assertion that all science is class-orientated in nature. Lysenko served as the director of the USSR's Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Other countries of the Eastern Bloc including the People's Republic of Poland, the Republic of Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic accepted Lysenkoism as the official "new biology", to varying degrees, as did the People's Republic of China for some years.
(more information in link that Junkytrunks provided. This is just the basics)
The orange man is taking direction from people looking forward to the downfall of US power through division and removal of societal support systems. Itās textbook Putin.
I wish more folks understood we are being attacked by a malevolent government that has infiltrated the US and fomented division through 50 years of propaganda. This isnāt crazy, itās coordinated and tactical. RFK Jr. was chosen by people who want to see us get sicker.
It's all the same garbage. Brain worm, Kristi norm, that lying barbie doll at doj, the wife of a rapist at the head of the department of education, the mutt flying his gf around in the fbi jet, GiJoke at the Pentagon and a convicted rapist in the oval area office... Corruption aside, each of them is so ridiculously unqualified to od the job they've been given there's a real concern that this country will survive them...
He does his own research. Unfortunately, he's a shitty researcher and has never been published. It may be time to outsource the research to the experts.
Why is this regime constantly holding press conferences and photo shoots? I couldnāt name a single HHS secretary in history but this dude is doing pull-ups on national news and staging glamour shots like weāre all supposed to care about him personally. Why is the FBI Director on podcasts every day? Does anyone actually go into the office there?
Hundreds of years in the future (if we last that long) historians and people will look back and consider this the age of stupidity, they'll wonder why so many remained complacent in the face of rabid misinformation.
It's frustrating because the framework exists, but the execution keeps getting derailed by everything except evidence. The attempt isn't the issue, the follow through is.
I wish reddit automatically flagged pics of that clown and blurred all images of him. I donāt need that jump scare in my life- put a trigger warning at least! š
I stopped studying the physical sciences when I got a D in high school chemistry but I'd be a better "most powerful man in science" because I probably know more about actual science than this guy. The self-destructiveness on display in Washington right now makes my head spin.
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šš¤£šš¤£š thank you
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What do his anal beads have to do with science?
They're needed to study Satan's alley
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I still want that to be a real movie.
ONE MAN DARED TO QUESTION HIS GOD
primal screaming at the sky
I want the scorcher series.
Here we go again. Again.
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I still canāt believe that movie pulled off black face.
I donāt remember jack blackās face being pulled off.
Now I just want a Face Off remake with Jack Black and Nic Cage, where Nic Cage gets to do the random Jack Black riffs.
Lol I think it's probably cuz it had a level of satirical commentary baked in. I legit have never heard anyone, from any race or background, complain how it was done in tropic thunder. It wasn't to make fun of people of color like that often is.
He's been a bad, bad boy
Took me a second to realize that it was a scene from a movie from a movie haha
He uses them to pull start the juices of innovation
Can we be sure they aren't pee hole beads?
Worm brained, heroin addict, roadkill eating, MAGAt, has something to say about your future healthcare options.
Don't forget sewer diving.
And DMT smoking
Nothing wrong with DMT
Yeah, itās probably the most reasonable thing about him
And here I thought the heroine addiction was the most reasonable part about him. "My family was president, so they put me in charge of the planet health" -RFK, probably.
Iāve got a heroine addiction too, but Iāve learned to tone down my Xena consumption over the years.
Agreed, but I'd rather the head of hhs be sober and of sound mind, not on psychedelics.
Also cheater, not real christian.
Also āpredatorā
And this man is a true menace to public health. His ignorance with his self righteous guidelines are going to set the Americal medical profession back a hundred years.
More profit for the 'healthcare' execs. More believers in superstition to support the anti-science anti-democracy cult. The masses in even more misery and desperarion, easier to exploit, and easier to control.
The founding fathers were right in that there would always be the rich and powerful who want to roll back your rights, employment rights, political rights, everyday freedoms.
We became complacent, thought that all the hard won freedoms and rights were always granted to us, and would never be taken away. That no one died to give us these rights, that no one would have to die again to keep them.
Americans want that to happen. Let them see how their faith in this type of "care" plays out.
With millions of innocent people suffering because their votes just didn't count enough I guess
Boy I sure love collective punishment, don't you?
Really sick of people saying "Americans deserve this".
No, the Americans who voted for this nightmare deserve it, a third of us are trapped in the consequences of the votes of the most stupid, malicious, and uniformed people in our nation. The idiots have taken over.
Most powerful man in Science
Holding prayer beads
What a damning indictment of America's decline. It's all faith based, who cares about facts anymore when we can massage your feelings instead?
How do you know that swimming in a pond surrounded by willows in the light of the full moon won't cure my syphilis? There should be more time given to respectable alternative theories like this.
/s
I fucking wish it was faith-based. I fucking wish this psychotic ass-clown was that coherent or predictable.
Bush II was an idiot. Bush IIās health policy was faith-based. We argued about stem cells. It was stupid.
This is worse. This is MAGA worm-brain-based. I got no fucking idea what kind of dangerous nonsense heāll push us into next.
Hes cutting waste money from medical science research because what has medical science research done for us lately?!
What are the odds of TWO pandemics?
Lol with enough cuts you'll find out soon enough.
What happened to āfuck your feelingsā and āfacts donāt care about your opinionsā
Even worse is that much promoted faith is cynical bullshit to convince the rubes. RFKjr truly only believes things that are instrumental do him gaining power.
āScienceā
I came here to say the same thing. Science absolutely needs to be in quotes, because itās nothing like actual real science being followed or conducted.
This guy is a true menace to American public health
That's the point of the headline. The quotes are inferred
You can read the article and you'll see it is not at all praising or supporting him. There's a reason they've used a picture of him with rosary beads while referring to science.
I imagine this guy saying it, with his upmost credibility
His cousin a Career diplomat said ā Caroline Kennedy sent a letter to members of the U.S. Senate in late January 2025, calling RFK Jr. a āpredatorā and arguing he is unqualified to run the Department of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump. She described him as addicted to attention and power .
There's is something seriously broken when a man with no medical license holding a superstitious object is touted as the most powerful man in science.
Idiocratic Republic.
Jesus christ, what a fucking piece of shit.
Just another spineless American punishing the country for their lacking.
I just heard Michael Scherrās interview on Pod save America. He sounded at times like he was physically struggling to keep down the middle of the road with his impressions of RFK jr.
The man is battling so many demons. Heās self professed to have been to actual hell and back.
Any other person on earth Iād almost feel empathy for the immense trauma he carries, and the personal struggles he will forever wrestle with.
But RFK jr isnāt any other person. Heās in a position which allows his own personal misguided vision of what is good and bad for people guide his decision making. Because of these choices, and the ones yet to be made, America is turning into a giant live science experiment to prove once and for all whether modern medicine and science truly is what is keeping people alive, healthy and safe.
All the rest of us can do is sit back and watch in horror as we watch infant mortality rates skyrocket; once eradicated virusā reanimate and thrive, and millions of people suffer.
I read the article and was struck by this:
Which is something I, sadly, think will at some point become the case within the next 3 years.
Lysenkoism. Look it up.
Make it easier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
make it even easier:
Lysenkoism[a] was a pseudoscientific political campaign led by the Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting natural selection in favour of a form of Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon the techniques of vernalization and grafting.
More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the Soviet campaign to suppress scientific opponents.[1][2][3][4] The president of the Soviet Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, who had been Lysenko's mentor, but later denounced him, was sent to prison and died there, while Soviet genetics research was effectively destroyed.[3][4] Research and teaching in the fields of neurophysiology, cell biology, and many other biological disciplines were harmed or banned.
The government of the Soviet Union (USSR) supported the campaign, and Joseph Stalin personally edited a speech by Lysenko in a way that reflected his support for what would come to be known as Lysenkoism, despite his skepticism toward Lysenko's assertion that all science is class-orientated in nature. Lysenko served as the director of the USSR's Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Other countries of the Eastern Bloc including the People's Republic of Poland, the Republic of Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic accepted Lysenkoism as the official "new biology", to varying degrees, as did the People's Republic of China for some years.
(more information in link that Junkytrunks provided. This is just the basics)
Just keep doing what the orange man says, and say 5 hail Marys and 10 our fathers. Science at its absolute best. /s
The orange man is taking direction from people looking forward to the downfall of US power through division and removal of societal support systems. Itās textbook Putin.
I wish more folks understood we are being attacked by a malevolent government that has infiltrated the US and fomented division through 50 years of propaganda. This isnāt crazy, itās coordinated and tactical. RFK Jr. was chosen by people who want to see us get sicker.
Not only is he a former heroin addict, but he got his younger brother into it as well, and he died from it.
If he wasn't a Kennedy, he would be in prison.
It's all the same garbage. Brain worm, Kristi norm, that lying barbie doll at doj, the wife of a rapist at the head of the department of education, the mutt flying his gf around in the fbi jet, GiJoke at the Pentagon and a convicted rapist in the oval area office... Corruption aside, each of them is so ridiculously unqualified to od the job they've been given there's a real concern that this country will survive them...
Yeah, and if a drunk toddler finds a gun she'll be the "most powerful" in the room, and but we'd take the gun away quickly right?
New age Charles II of Spain. Rich silver spoon blue blood debutant higher on his belief system than he ever was on heroin.
That is one of the most sinister pictures I've seen, how does anyone look at that at not see evil incarnate
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He initially reached out to the Harris campaign, hoping for a position in her administration. After he was turned down he went to the Trump team.
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Trumpās cabinet is a veritable whoās who of people the world would be better off without.
Why does this remind me of Michael's magazine cover from Arrested Development šš¤£
What man? All I see is a brain worm
Sad!
He does his own research. Unfortunately, he's a shitty researcher and has never been published. It may be time to outsource the research to the experts.
Well, humans had a pretty good run
Why is this regime constantly holding press conferences and photo shoots? I couldnāt name a single HHS secretary in history but this dude is doing pull-ups on national news and staging glamour shots like weāre all supposed to care about him personally. Why is the FBI Director on podcasts every day? Does anyone actually go into the office there?
F the Atlantic for this garbage
Itās sarcasm. The Atlantic is virulently anti-Trump and the entire regime.
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Fuck you Atlantic, for putting this lame ass attention seeker on a cover.
Itās sarcasm.
No shit? It doesn't matter to him, all attention is good attention.
Read the article, it certainly isn't praising him.
Didnāt he strap the head of a whale to his car or something like that?
raspy shit for brains
I like that he keeps his displays of faith private. As the bible tells him to.
modern day Lysenkoism
He was almost airbrushed to oblivion
This is fake. The Atlantic is an Earth one publication.
This photo hurts my heart as a Catholic.
Hundreds of years in the future (if we last that long) historians and people will look back and consider this the age of stupidity, they'll wonder why so many remained complacent in the face of rabid misinformation.
Sometimes I wonder if people forgot the reason the Dark Ages came about, or if it's even taught anymore...
The eyes always speak the truth. He's got the dead, soulless eyes of those megachurch, prosperity gospel pastors.
Thoughts and prayers y'all.
Dumbie canāt even get a proper portrait done
That Carl Sagan quote āclutching our crystalsā¦ we slide, almost without knowing, back into superstition and darknessā. š
..Right?
Is he though?
Why in the hammered fuck are the word "science" and a rosary being used about the same story?
Itās sarcasm
Is that the worm he is holding?
I have too many warnings on this sub to say what I wanted to say.
I hope he chokes on his food while alone.
It's frustrating because the framework exists, but the execution keeps getting derailed by everything except evidence. The attempt isn't the issue, the follow through is.
Is that a rosary? Hope heās praying for us.
If he's the most powerful man in science, then science is dead.
Worth a listen. Scary shit, this
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conspirituality/id1515827446?i=1000739613724
I wish reddit automatically flagged pics of that clown and blurred all images of him. I donāt need that jump scare in my life- put a trigger warning at least! š
Ol brain worms praying away the woke science for the real stuff.
Makes the U.S. look stupid
Looking at that cover photo it became clear, this fucker thinks he still has a chance to become president after Trump is gone.
He intends to claim the moderate, but MAGA friendly, position on the GOP ticket.
Well I feel like throwing up now.
*Most powerful man AGAINST science
Well America...
"The most powerful man in science" it said
Powerful, but far from the smartest.Ā
Dude brought back the measles from the dead š
Weāre doooooooooomed
Itās honestly irresponsible to put him on the cover
Ew.
The most powerful man against all odds kind of near science
Thatās some great story telling with the prayer beads
I think if I were to pick one word to describe the current state of American politics, I think it would be... putrid.
this guy
I stopped studying the physical sciences when I got a D in high school chemistry but I'd be a better "most powerful man in science" because I probably know more about actual science than this guy. The self-destructiveness on display in Washington right now makes my head spin.
Does this make a crying baby that shat itself the most powerful human on a plane?
Science??!! Heās not even a good catholic!
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Thought of Michael Bluthās article in Arrested Development
How is that real?
But But he can do 20 pullups at any moment!
Dude looks like his face is on wrong.
Is a fucking deranged charlatan...
Only in the sense that an arsonist is powerful in architecture.
This assholeā¦sigh.
Ew.
Le fou du roi...
Science my ass.
Shit post
By the look on his face they are in fact anal beads, and someone has removed them like they are trying to pull start a chainsaw.
https://i.redd.it/i715m5tk447g1.gif
I can't tell if this cover is a parody or just your typical Atlantic-brained editorial decision.
I thought dinosaurs were extinct
I love the rosary beads, really reinforces the insanity
The most powerful brain eating parasite in the world, and the US Secretary of Health and Human Services.