My mom has been all about RFK Jr lately, naturally. I recently learned he wants to ban the use of fluoride in our water, and your amoeba thing had me wondering whether fluoride counteracts amoebas. It doesn’t, but I found this:
This is Dr. Greger, the only source that vegan person cited when I was arguing with them. Finding himself on the same side as a guy who drove around with a bear carcass in the back of his car and a guy whose son’s trophy hunt is not a good look. We already know that banning vaccines leads to terrible outcomes, as that’s how polio has been able to make small comebacks. I could sense there was something off about this Dr. Greger fellow, particularly because the vegan didn’t give me any sources that weren’t from him.
He has some stuff on his site that comes off as very anti-chemo, and the whole implication of our argument seemed to be that I could simply change my diet to survive. They weren’t saying sensible things such as “Going vegan might be good for you”, they claimed they were, “Saving my life”. So, sure, you can say I overreacted and I wouldn’t disagree with you, but they were dogmatically insisting on what was best for me with regards to cancer. You know, that disease I’ve had for an entire decade and have been studying for as long, that I see a bunch of doctors about? And, when I calmly told them oh, I can’t go vegan because I do have the health issue mentioned in one of the very links they sent me, they refused to listen to that and kept dogmatically sending me links. Hopefully, that helps contextualize why I ended up having such a strong negative reaction to the whole mess.
So, we learn that there is an extremely high likelihood that your water is safe, and that it’s only if it gets in your nose that you even have to worry! Additionally, swimming pools are typically treated with chlorine, so should be safe ::3
Sorry for not spending very long talking about the amoebas, but that’s all I can think of to say rn. Hopefully helps you feel better >^_^<
Seems he’s got a decent amount of good knowledge we can learn from, but he’s also a cherry-picker and is bought and funded by many animal rights groups. Some animal rights groups do take things too far, such as PETA with their mass euthanasia of the animals in their shelters compared to all other shelters.
The big takeaway here is to always maintain skepticism, no matter how appealing that source may seem on the surface. Seeing what others say about the person is a great way to learn what their shortcomings are and where the balance lies.
