Of course, I would say that RFKJr has saved many from the harmful effects of vaccines - including death. Especially children! The tide is starting to shift on the pandemic response, Covid-19, and the vaccines. You’ll eventually see RFKJr fully vindicated. Just look at the recent article in Newsweek, a mainstream news publication. https://youtu.be/mbl7gatVa2s.
Nobody is suggesting that vaccines do not sometimes cause harm. Most highly beneficial things in our lives cause harm sometimes, including cars (50,000 die each year in the US through road accidents), houses (3000 die each year in house fires), aspirin (15,000 die from taking aspirin each year).
So given this fact, the question with vaccines is whether the benefits vasty outweigh the negatives.
An competent and honest version of RFKJr would state that though the are side effects from the COVID vaccines, the benefits greatly outweigh the negatives, and therefore the vaccine is recommended.
Does RFKJr say that? No, he has not issued any balanced statements like that.
Even RFKJr's own family have said that they love him, but his antivax propaganda is terrible.
On RFKJr suffering from mild mental illness, I would have to warn you, you would be thrown out of court on that argument. Being a staunch anti-psychiatrist, we understand that psychiatry itself is a form of aberration. https://blogs.scient...ry-heal-itself/. Psychiatric labeling is a false, hypocritical practice, designed to oppress the poor and working class more than anyone else. https://www.psycholo...l-health-labels. It’s mostly a tool of big pharma to sell drugs and make a killing, killing people. https://topdocumenta...ropic-drugging/.
If you believe in RFKJr's 5G conspiracy theories, you might like to consider whether you have schizotypy yourself. Schizotypy is very common, a massive 4% of the population have schizotypy, so you would be in good company. There are online questionnaires you can complete which can help diagnosed you.
Your views that psychiatric labelling is designed to oppress the poor and working classes are certainly odd and conspiracy theory-like.
Serious psychiatric conditions like major depression, bipolar, anxiety, schizophrenia, etc are one of the worst sufferings that can be inflicted onto conscious living beings. The cosmos we live in can inflict hellish suffering on conscious beings by tormenting them with hideous mental symptoms. Hell is not a theoretical concept, but actually exists here on Earth, in the form of all the serious mental health illnesses that afflict humanity. Putting your head in the sand regarding these terrible psychiatric afflictions is ignoring all the people who live in hell on an everyday basis.
Humanity need to address this terrible problem of hellish psychiatric symptoms, and this can only be done by science, by trying to figure out what causes mental symptoms, and trying to fix the cause.
At present our understanding of the causes of mental health is still primitive, so all we have to offer at the moment are drugs which are a Band-Aid, but do not address or fix the (unknown) root cause of mental ill health in the brain. Nevertheless, these drugs can be lifesavers for people in extreme states of suffering due to mental ill health.
The main problem with the psychiatric profession is that the majority of psychiatrists (erroneously) believe that mental illness is caused by psychological factors (like adverse or stressful life events), rather than by a physical underlying brain dysfunction. So psychiatrists ever since Freud have been making lots of money giving talk therapies to patients, even though such therapies have never once cured any serious mental illness.
Only a small minority of psychiatrists understand that serious mental illness is most likely caused by physical dysfunction in the brain. So this is a major problem with psychiatry, because they are looking in the wrong place for the cause of mental illnesses. They need to look at the brain, the physical organ which creates our minds.
Edited by Hip, 05 February 2023 - 04:06 PM.
