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douglas9

(5,041 posts)
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:07 PM Aug 28

RFK Jr, who doesn't have a medical degree, says he can diagnose children by just looking at them

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted, on Wednesday, that he could tell when a child is dealing with “mitochondrial challenges” or “inflammation” by just looking at them.

Lamenting about the health of America’s youth, Kennedy, who does not hold a medical degree, espoused misinformation about juvenile diabetes and autism rates while claiming he can look at a child and determine they are sick.

“I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like,” Kennedy said during a press briefing with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who signed a Make America Healthy Again bill on Wednesday.

“I’m looking at kids while I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, you can tell it from their faces, from their body movement, and from their lack of social connection,” Kennedy continued.

Kennedy joined Abbott for the bill signing, which seeks to implement “MAHA” policies to improve childhood health, such as requiring extra warning labels for foods containing certain additives, prohibiting SNAP beneficiaries from using funds to purchase sweetened beverages and candy, removing certain additives from free to discounted school lunches, and more.



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-children-health-diagnose-no-medical-degree-b2815849.html

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RFK Jr, who doesn't have a medical degree, says he can diagnose children by just looking at them (Original Post) douglas9 Aug 28 OP
Wow! Special powers. pandr32 Aug 28 #1
Goat vibrato diagnostics activate! Efilroft Sul Aug 28 #12
I diagnose rfk as a burned out druggie Marthe48 Aug 28 #2
With personality disorders and delusional thinking. yardwork Aug 28 #26
The very definition of "a quack." n/t Cloudhopper Aug 28 #3
Coincidently enough, I can diagnose mental illness when I look at these guys' photos ... marble falls Aug 28 #4
You can see him grimace as the coronavirus mother ship enters the wormhole GreenWave Aug 28 #31
Captain Brainworm strikes again Torchlight Aug 28 #5
And Trump was gifted with the super-power of knowing Ilsa Aug 28 #6
He's a sexual hero. In his demented mind. usonian Aug 28 #10
The scary bit is that Kennedy is only one of the idiots who believe they have some allegorical oracle Aug 28 #15
Getting back to root causes. usonian Aug 28 #17
That's occurred to me, too. Putin's hold over djt has been inexplicably tight. nt allegorical oracle Aug 28 #35
That's exactly the meme I was thinking about! nt Ilsa Aug 28 #23
Did I mention that this is the most racist government since Jefferson Davis? usonian Aug 28 #7
And then Trump and RFK Jr go to great lengths to darken the appearance of their skin. tanyev Aug 28 #19
Blackface returns? usonian Aug 28 #21
They really believe they look better, healthier, Ilsa Aug 28 #25
That was a thing back in the day. yardwork Aug 28 #27
I've seen no mention of trump not dying his hair anymore Bayard Aug 28 #36
It's past time for the American people to rise up and end the insanity Mysterian Aug 28 #8
The lunatic knows some BIG words The Blue Flower Aug 28 #9
But only when he is high on heroin Johonny Aug 28 #11
He is a human MRI machine. Norbert Aug 28 #13
I still can't believe that outright fucking kooks like him, Kegsbreath, Miller, Noem, et. al. have risen to 'the top' Blue Owl Aug 28 #14
All because the barest majority of those who chose to vote mwmisses4289 Aug 28 #18
I'm heavily into revenge fantasies these days. yardwork Aug 28 #28
Me, too. I live in a state of constant incredulity... 3catwoman3 Aug 28 #30
Creepy guy walks around looking at children leftstreet Aug 28 #16
A real media would report on this kacekwl Aug 28 #20
He's the Ped Whisperer TheBlackAdder Aug 28 #22
He's not the sharpest bulb; and he's a few screws short of a full deck struggle4progress Aug 28 #24
his bulb isn't just dim DBoon Aug 28 #33
He's a lawyer whose throat is trying to keep him from talking MaineBlueBear Aug 28 #29
Oh, that's just fucking SWELL. Paladin Aug 28 #32
Not unlike ICE being able to discern citizenship or legal status by noticing color of a person's skin? Attilatheblond Aug 28 #34
Was thinking about RFK and JFK -- what would they think of Jr. now? Thing is, allegorical oracle Aug 28 #37
RFK jr also goes by his other name, God. BigmanPigman Aug 28 #38

marble falls

(68,101 posts)
4. Coincidently enough, I can diagnose mental illness when I look at these guys' photos ...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:14 PM
Aug 28
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Birds of a feather .....

GreenWave

(11,456 posts)
31. You can see him grimace as the coronavirus mother ship enters the wormhole
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:26 PM
Aug 28

and induces anti-virus hysteria in his mouth.

Torchlight

(5,516 posts)
5. Captain Brainworm strikes again
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:16 PM
Aug 28

Defending us from oppressive vaccinations, hand washing, and healthy teeth. Another skeevy idiot running a con on idiots.

Ilsa

(63,214 posts)
6. And Trump was gifted with the super-power of knowing
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:16 PM
Aug 28

what Putin is thinking, how to create a great economy, always shoot well under par and better than any golf pro, and knows that all women and many men want to fuck him, just not the way he expects.

allegorical oracle

(5,667 posts)
15. The scary bit is that Kennedy is only one of the idiots who believe they have some
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:47 PM
Aug 28

mysterious power. But it's more like an alternative universe constructed by their overwhelming egos.

Day after day headlines report that djt's popularity is falling...that DC is suffering due to the troops' presence. Yet he goes before cameras to announce that people are flocking into DC now that it's "safe". He ignores poor polls.

Similarly, dozens of medical experts are announcing how the CDC's in a crisis due to its brain drain. And Paul Krugman is announcing a "five-alarm fire" if djt guts the Fed.

Same warnings about education, disaster response, FAA, NOAA and DHS. But nothing phases the Congress to act.

Has everyone gone crazy? Are they whistling past the graveyard? Or do they have sinister take-over plans and we're merely watching the stage being built for a full-on dictatorship?

usonian

(20,131 posts)
17. Getting back to root causes.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:59 PM
Aug 28

It appears to me that the entire coup, which was decades in setting the table, is the result of ONE PERSON'S blackmail by Putin over videos of the Epstein variety, which may or may not be different from Epstein Studios productions.

They are THAT damning.

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I thought that the summit was to exchange some billions in diplomatic pouches in exchange for videos.

Why his disappointment?

But it appears that Putin raised the price. No amount of money will do. Only the utter destruction of the United States. No less.


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Whether realization of this or other hideous transgressions sinks in, who knows? It will take something that large or a heroic act.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20593122

tanyev

(47,718 posts)
19. And then Trump and RFK Jr go to great lengths to darken the appearance of their skin.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 01:31 PM
Aug 28

It’s absolutely bizarre.

Ilsa

(63,214 posts)
25. They really believe they look better, healthier,
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:10 PM
Aug 28

with makeup, excessive tanning. They have no idea how artificial and superficial they look.

RFK, jr has poor critical thinking skills. I can think of a half dozen reasons a child might look "off" in an airport: Exhausting vacation, attended funeral, argument with cousins, caught a bug, slept poorly on flight, ate poorly during trip.

yardwork

(67,870 posts)
27. That was a thing back in the day.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:16 PM
Aug 28

When Trump and RFK, Jr. were young, wealthy people liked that "tan glow" look because it indicated that they had time for vacations and outdoor leisure, and weren't chained to a desk. The rest of us emulated it.

Later most of us figured out that lying in the sun to get a tan was unhealthy so we stopped doing it. Trump and his cronies are still stuck in the 80s.

Bayard

(26,860 posts)
36. I've seen no mention of trump not dying his hair anymore
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 03:05 PM
Aug 28

I keep thinking of what Pres. Kennedy, RFK Sr., and Sen. Kennedy would have made of junior now. I'm betting he wouldn't be this screwed up.

Mysterian

(5,892 posts)
8. It's past time for the American people to rise up and end the insanity
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:28 PM
Aug 28

We must rein in the power of propaganda. The First Amendment has limits and promoting a seditious coup should not be protected speech.

The Blue Flower

(6,145 posts)
9. The lunatic knows some BIG words
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:29 PM
Aug 28

He can pronounce 'mitochondrial', so we're supposed to be impressed with his knowledge. Doesn't make him any less a murderous lunatic.

Blue Owl

(57,269 posts)
14. I still can't believe that outright fucking kooks like him, Kegsbreath, Miller, Noem, et. al. have risen to 'the top'
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:42 PM
Aug 28

mwmisses4289

(2,094 posts)
18. All because the barest majority of those who chose to vote
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 01:07 PM
Aug 28

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were terrified of having a competent, knowledgeable woman of color as President.
Is it wrong of me to hope the gods send a version of covid deadly only to these idgits?

3catwoman3

(27,634 posts)
30. Me, too. I live in a state of constant incredulity...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:23 PM
Aug 28

…and horror.

Lack of expertise and willingness to ass-kiss seems to be the main “qualifications” all Trump appointees have.

kacekwl

(8,543 posts)
20. A real media would report on this
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 01:34 PM
Aug 28

completely insane and irresponsible statement and immediately call for him to step down and seek help. Then demand orange anus fire his ass now. Anything else is incompetent and irresponsible.

Paladin

(31,541 posts)
32. Oh, that's just fucking SWELL.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:34 PM
Aug 28

And you'd figure he'd make such an asinine statement, accompanied by a piece of shit like Greg Abbott.

There's a movement underway to get RFK Jr. to resign, right now. Contact your Democratic Senators and Representatives and demand that they join Patty Murray's efforts to make this happen. If ever there was a life-or-death issue that needs immediate action, this is it.

Attilatheblond

(7,139 posts)
34. Not unlike ICE being able to discern citizenship or legal status by noticing color of a person's skin?
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:59 PM
Aug 28

RFK Sr should've 'pulled out'.

allegorical oracle

(5,667 posts)
37. Was thinking about RFK and JFK -- what would they think of Jr. now? Thing is,
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 03:11 PM
Aug 28

the very private Caroline Kennedy warned everyone about her cousin Bobby. MAGAs ignored her.

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