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@npr.org embraces fascist theory instead reporting actual information which may help the public understand some of the articles they’ve been publishing.

Um. We literally have the ability to SEE germs and infer that they cause disease. That tool is called a microscope! I’m no scientist, but even I know that!! 🙄. Also animal experiments. Ffs, this guy doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together! 🤡

DUI hires

literally my first thought too

It's even simpler. Two words... "Brain" "Worms".

He's a pain in My ass ima

In a normal world or wouldn't matter what he embraces because he's not qualified.

Leeching is next

"outdated" miasma theory? You mean "disproven". You make it sound like it's a theory from the good old dates, with some type of nostalgic redeeming value. That's far to benign a description for a very dangerous and incorrect theory.

“Apparently”….HE. HAS. SAID. IT. NPR is circling the drain.

@piatpod.bsky.social y’all see this?

@npr.org Please stop sane washing this lunatic. His stupid and proven wrong ideas will kill Americans. Call him out for being a lunatic, period. #impeachRFKjr

So weird that GOP doctor who "grilled" RFK jr.. is suddenly very quiet.. #impeachRFKjr

Any explanation about why or how someone is an idiot still makes him an idiot.

To close the article with “there’s truth in both positions” is a disservice to the reader. Respecting one (environmental factors) without the other (microbes) is irresponsible…and in rfkjr’s position, I dare say, criminal!

Again, why is anyone taking anything that this guy says seriously. He's deeply dumb when it comes to health and safety. He should resign in disgrace.

Just because you can explain his stupidity doesn't make him any less stupid. It also doesn't change the fact that his decision making will almost certainly lead to unnecessary deaths & illnesses. Great job appeasing Trump, GOP!

I'm an old woman who didn't want children so didn't have any, never married and became a Chemist. I expect to be burned at the stake any day.

NO!! He recommended not using masks to the public because there were not even a fraction of enough for health care workers. Then Pres Trump set up contests between states to suck off his ego to get PPE. My Governor, Polis from CO, sent a private plane to steal some from afar.

Stop thinking he has any actual health care agenda All he's doing is destroying our systems from within, that's it. He's not trying to make anything better.

Bring back the four humours!

I had never heard of it either and I'm a RN...

Or, he may not understand anything science-y.

Maga christians are all about patients being cash cows for the health care industry. Healing is not profitable, and healthy nutrients and vaccines are not healthy for the health care industry.

'Outdated'? What are we talking about, listening to music on cassette?? Miasma theory has been thoroughly discredited. 'Miasmas' do not exist. You wouldn't learn diagnostics and treatment plans for 'miasmas' in medical school.

He is a Heroin Addict with a brain worm. He is an idiot.

Hey NPR, instead of calling it "outdated" how about not sane washing his BS and call it what it is; disproven, false, and not science based.

Just check the humors, gawdammit.

"outdated"? How about "false", "disproven", "incorrect"? Do better @npr.org

Ah, so back to “it was the ‘ghost’ that got us sick?” Gross.

just hang it up if this is how you are going to operate. better to go out with integrity than to acquiesce like target. see how that’s working for them

Moron en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_...

You reposted this, doing a both-sides on modern medicine? REALLY?

NPR is now working full time to normalize Trump and his staff.

Or he’s a liar and being paid by anti vaxxer groups.

MAHA!

Or maybe he’s just an idiot!!

Moron. And so dangerous.

Like 16th century outdated? Omg, you guys are lost. Silence IS Complicity. Cooperation IS Collaboration. Keep notes. Vive la Révolution!

Hey @npr.org , it’s a discredited theory. Creating a false equivalence with Germ Theory won’t get the funding back.

Stop! Being! Complicit!

This is a much more generous headline than he deserves.

Good article. Wouldn't have minded a reminder of how long people around the time of Hippocrates. A man who leaned in to blood letting.

I'm so tired of stupid.

I have a theory for rfk.. it’s called the kiss myassma theory. It never becomes outdated.

So the Miasma Theory is basically blaming Bad Air quality for illness? Does RFK realize he's actually making an argument for elimination of carbon emissions?

He sounds like his humours are imbalanced.

Germs are a thing. I genuinely do not understand how one can reject germ theory. You can SEE germs with a microscope. They’re right there!

all it explains is that he has something wrong with his brain

This is a plague doctor. They believed in the miasma theory. The mask's long beak would protect them from the bad air. This is what RFK Jr. Believes we should follow. Black plague killed anywhere from 5-40% of the world population in 5 years. That would be 400 million - 3.2 billion deaths today.

why doesn’t he just do the sewer water challenge on an endless loop until he meets jebus?

He prefers medieval medical cures.

Well, I just looked that up; it’s the theory of “bad air” (aka night air) emanating from rotting material. Wanna know what works against bad air? 😷

Unfortunately not even that old, they didn't switch from miasma until the late 19th century

Why are you looking for explanations to his actions? Is it going to help enter into a dialogue with him? Change his mind? Help plot a course of action? We are dealing with people who think what they believe is more important than facts. Logic and reason will have zero impact.

Sweet Jesus 🫠

NPR clearly already on the side of the fascism machine.

He's got the humors.

Why is my monthly donation supporting minced words and kowtowing?

@boghuma.bsky.social 👆🏻

Why do you keep posting this? Embarrassing both sides nonsense They hate you

You’ve got ghosts in your blood. Do cocaine about it.

Kennedy is a moron

He’s a drug addict that’s still using.

“As many, for better or worse, currently believe in microorganisms like bacteria and viruses,a focus on the humors often gets a bad rap….”

Well, he is a walking noxious cloud of misinformation.

Trying to get this straight. Is the brain worm the problem, or the solution? Anyone else hoping for some reasonable alien presence struggling to overcome all that ignorance and hate?

Or maybe it’s the brain damage from his heroin addiction

Stop platforming fact-free, long debunked “theories” of idiots with zero qualifications. Also, “germ theory” in quotes? Do you put “Gravity” in quotes? The USA is being tested: do we make decisions based on science or on the rantings of grifters? @npr.org + @nytimes.com are failing that test.

Kinda sounds like Joe Biden's "windshield cancer" theory of disease. apnews.com/article/bide...

If we could just get our humors aligned!

Will be witches soon

"But some other observers argue that Kennedy's ideas about the miasma and germ theories aren't necessarily mutually exclusive." I mean, yeah, we know that cancer, for example, can be caused by environmental factors. But will he fight to make air and water cleaner, or will he just fight to ban 5g?

Spanish Flu is calling from 100+ years ago and wants the Health Secretary to hug it 😱

Get your perfumed hankies and ambergris sachets

What's the problem? We all know bad smells cause disease. I thought RFK was against masks, and as Trump would say, this is the biggest mask you've ever seen. Could it be that he is a degenerate moron? Worth mentioning that the masks *didn't* work back then, even filled with pleasant smelling stuff

In short, he's an ignorant asshole who believes something about as valid as the Four Humors. Shame on you, NPR, for not saying flat-out that the Miasma Theory is garbage that was debunked almost 200 years ago.

If it's been disproven, then continuing to call it a theory is misleading at best. Do better, NPR.

Next thing you know, I'll have to get prior approval for bloodletting and trepanning. 🙄

Oh yeah!!! I love the "humors', dung pills and leaches!

@npr.org do better.

Um, "miasma" is false. It's not "outdated," it's FALSE. You all are asking us for money to support you, but when you fail to actually state what's going on, I snap my pocketbook shut. Do Better!

RFK Jr is a nut job! He has no business being in charge of our health !!

@npr.org once again you show far right bias, using words like "outdated" instead of something more accurate, like "myth based" or "belief based" or even "anti-science". Knees bent to the crown, no one who wishes objective news should donate to NPR any more.

Yeah right. Ask him to spell "miasma" and see how much he's embraced it.

Did you just take wapos headline from yesterday? Frankly as a Canadian who loves npr I would expect better.

He's the disease

The only thing that explains his actions are brain worms

Not to mention that his reported dead brain worm "died from starvation".

he also embraced the heroin theory of vaccination all the good Kennedys died by 46

When the fuckin' clowns are running the circus

If he believes that, then why the hell are they against masks???! Where is your plague mask RFK? (The fact this is our reality is fucking insane. The GOP has lost the damn plot)

Amazingly moronic

His actions are not explainable. Work on your headlines.

This guy is going to have us all treated for an imbalance of humours come fall.

“accept”!

“Outdated”

He has a brain worm, yall!

Seems like he’s conflating the idea that ppl can breathe rotting air & get cancer with the reality that air pollution can cause/ contribute to lung cancer.

Hey @npr.org -maybe it’s just that he’s a grifter who made money from anti-vax lies and had a brainworm!

What the actual f--- is this headline?

NPR, you have to do better. Miasma theory has been debunked for well over a century. It stopped being a working theory when MICROSCOPES were invented. There are no two sides to this. Giving any legitimacy to RFK Jr and his nonsense comes at a expense of public health.

How about “long-discredited miasma theory”, or “hopelessly-outdated miasma theory”, or “thoroughly unscientific miasma theory”?

If disease is spread via miasma, then masks and air filters should be mandatory, right?

Keyword ancient

Fixed it: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the quack “miasma theory” of disease instead of the factually correct “germ theory “, which may explain some of the actions he’s been taking.

Great! Heroin junky RFK jr doesn’t believe in germs!

Nah that's what the raw milk is for. It has magical properties only he understands.

Gtfo call this guy what he is . Unfit.

Lol "outdated"... Your boot licking is showing npr

Since Bobby Brainworm believes in the miasma theory of disease, maybe he could be invited to judge a chili and baked bean cook-off held indoors at a poorly ventilated venue. It might be torture for him, but then again he likes to prove his virility by swimming in sewage.

Well that somewhat explains the cocaine use and swimming in a septic tank with kids.