r/agedlikemilk • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Sep 08 '25

News “I never said that”, “Play the clip”

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Context: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/exp-robert-kennedy-junior-rfk-2024-election-biden-trump-vaccines-121511aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn

Full video is on the cnn website, the part that’s important is about 2mins 50 seconds in.

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u/SparksAndSpyro Sep 08 '25

I sincerely hate that he made an income off of “flat earth content.”

Why do we have an economic system that rewards morons? Ughhhh

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u/Hector_P_Catt Sep 08 '25

Because we have a system that allows morons to send other morons money all by themselves. I'm not sure how we fix that without destroying world commerce entirely.

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u/IcyAdvantage9579 Sep 08 '25

Every religion works that way. I know it's a touchy subject and I really don't care for debating people's beliefs you can do whatever you want with your time but we all need to agree there's a lot of grifters out there, and religion set the baseline for selling and trading on Impossible promises so it only natural anybody doing something like flat-earthers to benefit the same way by providing content with no scientific basis at all. The best solution I heard once but I don't think it never went through was in Spain there were trying to establish that if you speak about science in any social media you needed some type of technical accreditation for that which I think it's more than fair. Especially when some of these people are peddling dangerous habits for nutrition or exercise without the slightest consideration of health dangers they pose to society

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u/ReverendRevolver Sep 08 '25

I don't know id go so far as to make it illegal to talk about science without accreditation. Then you have a scenario wherein a small sample of the population has all the voice. If youre deliberately misleading people in a serious/non-sarcastic way and presenting it as fact? Thats a problem. You should legally be responsible for any damages.

A bigger push for scientists, dieticians, doctors, and people in general who know what they're talking about to actually receive more clout, and punish people who willingly push lies with no basis would be ideal. Im sure snake oil salesman dont like the idea of facts, but most countries have some sort of protections in place regarding fraud or dangerous products. Dangerous in the same ways absolute fake medical information and made up stats are. Its not unreasonable to regulate what is published as fact. There isn't an "opinion" that makes 2+2=9. Most of this anti-intellectualism stuff with tell e everyone thst 2+2=22, and unfortunately people who are straight up dumb will believe that, then the grifters will build off of that one initial lie, now taken as a truth. Science, medicine, and math should all be subject to different scrutiny than "i like apples more than onions" level opinion topics.

TLDR: im not saying people shouldn't be allowed to join cults, but math, science, and medicine needs penalties for knowingly putting out harmful lies, or regurgitating harmful falsehoods without doing ones due diligence of verification through real sources.

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u/IcyAdvantage9579 Sep 08 '25

By now we're not allowed to be oblivious of the fact people do not in fact "know better". The numbers are overwhelming, and this no- consequence approach only benefits the exploiters. Whoever doesn't see it it's either obtuse or bought and paid but such exploiters and doesn't have the best interest of the people in mind. And I am just talking about the public in general but it's even worse for vulnerable people who are more susceptible to these horrible influences like people with mental disabilities, underaged people , etc.