Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapoās latest diatribe against COVID-19 vaccines took on a religious bent Thursday when he told far-right podcast host Steve Bannon that the inoculations are the āAntichrist of all products.ā
A day after the Ron DeSantis appointee called for the end of mRNA vaccines because he believed they could harm DNAāa claim that experts have debunkedāLadapo reiterated his baseless contentions to Bannon.
āI think it probably does have some integration at some levels with the human genome,ā Ladapo said on the War Room podcast, ābecause these vaccines are honestlyātheyāre the Antichrist of all products. So I think it probably does. But Iām not saying it does.ā
Isnāt this guy supposed to have a valid medical degree? Iām a layman and understand how mRNA vaccines work. How can he be so wildly off? Does he understand and not care or is truly stupid?
Itās actually not that complicated.
Just to illustrate, letās look at a single facet of Iranian society under their religious totalitarians. They frequently want our technology, but they donāt want the creativity that actually creates it, because this liberal creative mindset would inevitably undermine their authority.
Any conservative individual can adopt this conformist style, where they go ahead and absorb āwhatā and āhowā but are far more leery of āwhyā questions, simply loyally parroting what they think others want them to say while not actually internalizing the lesson material.
So, their education ends up partial. They can still become a doctor though, all that takes is a whole shitload of hard work and some intelligence.
Thereās always going to be some.
Having a degree doesnāt prevent him from being a charlatan.
And in fact, it turns out that being a charlatan can be quite lucrative, probably orders of magnitude more than he makes as a doctor.
As the old saying goes- do you know what they call the person who comes last in medical school? Doctor.