Eat Real Food - Hackdot

Re:Eat Real Food by thrance on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:28PM (#46532110)

Antivax, avocated against pasteurization, thinks fries are healthy when fried in beef tallow, swam in sewers with his grandkids to prove the human body is naturally immune to diseases and vaccines are unnecessary, tried to ban paracetamol based on bad research linking it to autism, and much more if you care to dig a little.

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Re:Eat Real Food by mandelbrotwurst on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:47PM (#46532444)

> swam in sewers with his grandkids

This is wildly inaccurate. He was photographed wading in Rock Creek in Washington, D.C, behavior prohibited by the parks service due to high levels of bacteria, yes. Is it a sewer? No.

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Re:Eat Real Food by tomcam on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:36PM (#46532259)

He's never been anti-vax, though he has advocated for better data about vaccines with good reason--it's abominable. He's advocated against requiring milk to be pasteurized. One of the few reasonable datasets suggesting it doesn't help is the amish. The other ones sound weird so I will indeed dig a little.

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Re:Eat Real Food by FireBeyond on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:09PM (#46532835)

Show us all how all the data on vaccines is "abominable".

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Re:Eat Real Food by cosmicgadget on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:05PM (#46533727)

Don't you remember how everyone who got a covid vaccine died off two years later?

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Re:Eat Real Food by hairofadog on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:55PM (#46533592)

While he moderates his take on it depending on who his audience is, he has said "There's no vaccine that is safe and effective."

https://apnews.com/article/rfk-kennedy-election-2024-preside...

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Re:Eat Real Food by codeka on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:23PM (#46533970)

> One of the few reasonable datasets suggesting it doesn't help is the amish

When you literally live on the farm where the cow is milked, there is less benefit to pasteurization, yes. Unless you want us to live like the Amish, then let's keep our pasteurized milk, OK?

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Re:Eat Real Food by lithocarpus on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:05PM (#46535662)

Some of us do want to live near where our food comes from and eat it fresh. I haven't seen anyone advocating that pasteurization should be banned, just that raw milk should be un-banned.

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Re:Eat Real Food by tomcam on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:40PM (#46534203)

Should we be forced to drink pasteurized milk?

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Re:Eat Real Food by thrance on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:00PM (#46535092)

You were never forced to, don't change the subject. Issue is with the secretary of health spreading obvious lies about pasteurization, a process that saved countless lives over the course of more than a century.

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Re:Eat Real Food by rafram on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:51PM (#46536095)

> The distance between the therapeutic and liver toxic doses is too small for kids, less than 2.5x the max recommended dose

If you’re giving your kid 2.5x the listed maximum dose of a medication, that’s on you.

> a hepatotoxic dose for my 5 year old based on their weight is just 3/4 of the adult daily max recommended dose

Sure, and even a small drink of alcohol can poison a kid. Something being OK for adults doesn’t make it OK for kids. Read the packaging.

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Re:Eat Real Food by ericd on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:49PM (#46536584)

It causes >100k cases of poisoning in the US every year. RTFM isn't working.

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