this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025

554 points (99.1% liked)

Not The Onion

nottheonion@lemmy.world

22,973 readers

5,681 active

529 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 3 years ago

moderators

kescusay@lemmy.world

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

submitted 1 year ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

74 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

This administration is so fucking frustrating, but it seems they want to remove any meaning of that word, the same way they always do.

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 year 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.

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago*

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

parent

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

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

parent

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago*

Nah, John Stossel was using it back in the '90s to deny climate change. The term "junk science" has always been used as an excuse to ignore reality.

parent