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Dr. Oz let slip on a podcast that President Donald Trump has a working theory that Diet Coke is "good" for him because it "kills cancer cell
Donald Trump thinks that Diet Coke® cures cancer. This tidbit did not come from what he would call "the radical left woke media" but from Don Jr. and Dr. Oz. Maybe Trump will tell Pope Leo to switch from holy water to diet soda.
Donald Trump Jr. couldn't stop laughing at his famous father's habits in a podcast with Dr. Oz as the two discussed President Trump's theory that "Diet Coke kills cancer cells." Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Dr. Mehmet Oz, was chatting with Don Jr. when the president's well-documented soda habit came up. “Bobby and I usually go to the meetings together," began Dr. Oz. "So he'll first start off with, you know, candy bars. That little 'candy jar' he'll call it." “He'll hit the red button, and then comes the diet soda pops," at which point the two begin giggling. That's when Dr. Oz let everyone in on some of Trump's own thoughts on health. "Which... your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass. It's poured on grass, so therefore it must kill cancer cells inside the body," says Oz, as the two men start laughing harder.
During the early months of the pandemic emergency, Trump famously touted a number of quack cures for COVID-19.
Take malaria pills (chloroquine)
Drink bleach
Stick a UV light up your butt
Trump's medical quackery is just an extension of his overall ignorance and incompetence.
Using Trump as an example, one could make a more convincing argument that Diet Coke® kills brain cells.
Anti-Vaxxer Group Children's Health Defense: “THIS WAS NOT CAUSED BY TYLENOL” (the anti-vaxxers are PISSED)
[From the article] "We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer," anti-vaccine group Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice wrote in an unhinged Facebook post on Monday morning. "If that's all we hear - is that the end? Not thimerosal. Not aluminum. Not MMR. Not Hep B. Not the insane schedule pushed after pharma got liability protection. Are we supposed to just forget?"
“THIS WAS NOT CAUSED BY TYLENOL” Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group retweeted.
I'll be honest, wasn't expecting this result - or at the very least not so loud in response.
The game is up, the grift is clear, and we know with full evidential response by these scumbags: this was never, ever, EVER about helping autistics nor their families...and less obviously it was never about finding a cause nor a cure.
It's all about the scam.
They can't find a cause nor a cure, folks, because if they do, no one will give them money anymore. Why would they when the groups RFKjr and others like him successfully completed their missions?
Nooo, the grift must continue.
...and for the true believers, this is downright insulting, because - according to them - vaccines are a forced injury by horror-show doctors wanting to butcher and malign your innocent little angel; as parents they weren't given a choice! They were forced to harm their sweet wittle baby and now they're martyr parents FOR THE CAUSE!
But...Tylenol?
Tylenol is a choice you, as a consumer, get to make.
These people take Tylenol when they have pain; it's a safe, accessible and relatively cheap drug with few side effects they feel.
You don't get to be a martyr parent by declaring your child was 'Tylenol-injured', because aside from sounding like a parody, the injury - again, in an anti-vaxxer's mind - falls on the parent for making this choice. And doctors don't push hard for Tylenol use like they do about vaccinations.
Speaking of doctors - at least those who played one on TV and call a veggie tray a crudité platter (truly someone of the people!) - the alleged antidote to Tylenol use during pregnancy is Folinic acid, also known as Leucovorin; well, at least according to Dr. Oz, who owns a company that produces it.
So are anti-vaxxers going to start pushing Folinic acid on parents? Will that be the 'cure'? Or will they ride RFKjr out on a rail for screwing up the anti-vax grift?
Time will certainly tell - but while they're all having slap fights, all of us neurodivergent folks will be sitting and watching and perhaps debating on whether or not popcorn is a safe food. (h/t @rabidlitmajor)
Is popcorn a safe food?
Yes
No
I Am Tylenol (instead of I Am Autism)
Senator John Fetterman fully supports Dr. Oz for head of Medicare & Medicaid Services (?)
https://www.abc27.com/pennsylvania-politics/fetterman-reacts-to-oz-being-nominated-for-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services/
BUT:
Dr. Oz's family business received the largest ICE fine in U.S. history for engaging in a scheme to hire undocumented immigrants.
The fine against Asplundh Tree Experts Co. was the largest ever levied in ICE history according to a 2017 agency press release.
Dr. Oz, Tapped to Run Medicare, Has a Record of Promoting Health Misinformation
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/well/dr-oz-health-medicare-record.html
John's wife was (and still could be listed as) an undocumented immigrant.
So Medicare / Medicaid *will* cut benefits to people like his wife.
Trump could even deport his wife.
Only 530,000 of those eligible are currently protected under DACA.
RFK Jr./Transphobia Round Up: Published 12/25/25
<p>The Department of Health and Human Services announced new proposals that would effectively block gender-affirming care for trans youth ac
<p>“This administration is obsessed with targeting trans folks,” former HHS deputy assistant secretary for health policy Adrian Shanker told
<p>“They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officia
Look for the helpers.
<p>Trump's FDA claims that companies selling chest binders have "misbranded" medical devices. </p>
<p>The FDA warned companies selling chest binders to register their products as medical devices. Here's how they're responding. </p>
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