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RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Did they just hear the term junk science and went "no u"?

That's EXACTLY what they did, yeah. Just like when they appropriated "fake news" which was originally a term describing their own disinformation.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Which also nicely mirrors the Nazis calling everybody that contradicts them Lügenpresse.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That's not new though, Stalin and Hitler both played the fake news game.