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    I’m very familiar with the world of academia. To be honest, many of them/us are surprisingly stupid, but for a reason. To get a doctorate in a field is no easy task. Your lack of knowledge in much else is because you spent all you had being knowledgeable in a specific thing.

    So even if you think a doctor is a stupid person in general, there is NO EXCUSE for them being stupid in the one thing they spent years becoming an expert in.

    So, is this “doctor” actually holding a doctorate in this field? Let me check…

    …god, he has the most generic name it’s impossible to know.

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        I’m non-US and work at a university. Some of the academics I can’t imagine surviving in the real world. The only way I can explain it is they get a PhD and then the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to everything, but they don’t evolve on it. And they’re weirdly incredibly gullable—like, in their 30s and vulnerable to scams and misinformation your grandma would immediately pick up on. You get concerned for what else they may be teaching students because kids fresh out of high school often trust adults and these adults put off an identity of being experts.

        You want to say to them, “If it’s not about phylogenetics, don’t listen to a single fucking thing this person says no matter how confident they sound.”

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    Fun fact. RFK forced his brother to take cocaine and demerol. His brother would later get addicted, and die of an overdose. Also, he sounds like that from years of heroin abuse.

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    Dr. Edwards should lose his medical licence and be banned from working with children forever. How sociopathic do you have to be to be working whilst knowing you are carrying one of the most infectious diseases in existence? This is utterly inexcusable, especially since he is supposedly a qualified doctor and should be well aware of the danger he is putting his patients in.

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      AFAIK it’s the most known infectious.

      Covid, or at least one of the omicron variants is next i think, but one might argue its more since the infection cycle was faster leading to larger numbers, but in terms 1 person infecting X people, it’s Measles.

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        Measles is more lethal to buy itself, if it causes meningitis or encephalitis, secondarily it suppresses the immune system

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      Does seem like it would go against the hypocratic oath. That said, I leave that up to the medical board to determine since I am not a doctor. But it should at least be investigated by them.

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    Seriously who doesnt think he is a nurgle cultist at this point? This is like text book Nurgle follower.

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        We don’t care if dumb americans die is what they’re saying. Y’all voted for that shit afterall… poor little mericans in the richest country in the wotld with all the guns, ooohh measles

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              I giggled too as an american. Why not enjoy the end times. People ushered this in through ignorance, arrogance, and inaction. let god sort em out.

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                Glad my sense of humour isnt entirely lost on you lot, best of luck in the apocalypse :)

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                  Thank you! I’ve been a prepper most of my life so I’m ready for the results. These poor people can’t even acknowledge the horrors they face in the imminent future. It’s kinda cute and fitting. I’m very interested to see who survives in the post law, post walmart america. Maybe we can build a great nation again.