I think that “Anakin was a slave child who was groomed by Palpatine and raised by someone who wasn’t ready to take on a child, thereby leaving him in a social limbo state where he’s surrounded by people but only has a few close confidants, with the one he trusts the most actively trying to take advantage of him”
and
“Anakin was taught right from wrong from a young age, first by his mother and then by Kenobi, but any time he was presented with a choice, actively CHOSE WRONG EVERY SINGLE TIME”
are two sentences that can, should, and MUST coexist to fully understand Anakin Skywalker as a character
Every time I hear people talk about satanic imagery or satanic propaganda I think about that tweet that was like, some people view Satan as a video game villain where he gets stronger the more people worship him
cis people will say “I found out I’m having a baby girl at my anatomy scan and I’m experiencing gender disappointment” but be mad when you say “who knows? maybe you’ll end up with a son anyway”
they found this post and they’re very very in their feelings about it
Cis people will basically just sag “I’m sexist” and you say “maybe you don’t have to be” and they say “well now I’m gonna be transphobic too”
I was trying to think of a way to explain why this is stupid and also ghoulish. I think I came up with something.
Imagine you are an engineer designing body armor. You are tasked with making sure the body armor can stop 10 different types of bullets. In your first attempt, you create body armor that stops 6 of the 10 bullets. You start selling those because that’s pretty good protection. You can save some lives while you continue to improve things.
You already know how to stop 6 bullets, but you really want to figure out how to stop the last 4. So you do exactly what you did before, but add a few more layers of Kevlar and a steel plate.
Your boss, RFK Jr., says he wants a test of the new and improved body armor. But he says you have to give one test subject the real thing and the other test subject fake body armor that does nothing.
And you’re like, “Hey, can I at least give them the body armor that stops 6 bullets? We already know that gives some protection. We only need to compare the new armor to what we already accomplished.”
And RFK says, “No, please shoot a person dead. It’s science.”
Frogman’s example above is a very good illustration of what’s going on with non-placebo vaccine trials, but I’d also like to share my favorite explanation for why we don’t do randomized controlled trials for everything—this “joke” study on the effectiveness of parachutes:
All studies involving human or animal participants have to pass a certain threshold of safety for all involved (this is done by the IRB for human trials and the IACUC for animal trials.) if you wanted to do a control group for parachutes, the only way to make it safe would be to have everyone jump out of the plane while it was still on the ground. in which case the people with parachutes and the people without parachutes would have the same survival rate, making it look like having a parachute is not an improvement over no parachute.
so while the theoretical outcome of RFK’s bullshit is this “kill people for science” thing, the IRB still exists; it wasn’t just made up by the FDA or DHS, its existence is directly required by the US Legal Code (Title 42, §289. Institutional review boards; ethics guidance program, elaborated on more in Title 45 CFR 46). Studies that get federal funding still need ethics boards, per federal law, and the composition of ethics boards is controlled by federal law as well. RFK Jr can’t wipe that away as easily as he can wipe away other things.
What that means in practice is that RFK Jr will say “let’s do a randomized controlled study where we lie to parents about whether or not their children are actually getting vaccinated” and the ethics board will say “that’s unethical, you can’t do that” and RFK Jr will say “fine, then we won’t do any research at all!” and now there’s no research proving the new vaccines are safe and effective.
He does not actually want proof that vaccines are better than placebo. He wants to get rid of vaccines altogether. I’m pretty sure the point here is not directly killing people in unethical trials; it’s to make it impossible to get any evidence that vaccines work.
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