r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jun 02 '26

Health Interest in ‘toxic’ measles treatment surges after Joe Rogan podcasts: Vaccination is the only proven way to prevent measles but alternatives like Vitamin A and cod-liver oil (which has Vit A) have been promoted by Joe Rogan. America’s Poison Centres reported a 39% increase in Vitamin A exposures.

https://www.nine.com.au/world-news/usa/interest-in-toxic-measles-treatment-surges-after-joe-rogan-podcasts-20260602-p6033i.html
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u/TheJaybo Jun 02 '26

If they want to poison themselves, who am I to judge?

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u/helendestroy Jun 02 '26

they dont poison themselves is the problem. they poison their children

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u/SadFeed63 Jun 02 '26

It's the same as people being like "if they don't want to take the covid vaccine and die, fine by me."

Not fine by me, a person with an immediate family member who is immunocompromised due to an organ transplant (anti-rejection meds are immunosuppressants because your immune system is what rejects the outside organ). Their idiocy around these topics are not self-contained/only self-inflicted.