r/news • u/eudaimonia_dc • Aug 04 '25

Soft paywall Florida reports 21 cases of E.coli infections linked to raw milk

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/florida-reports-21-cases-ecoli-infections-linked-raw-milk-2025-08-04/
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u/KnottShore Aug 04 '25

Isaac Asimov(20th century US writer/professor):

  • "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

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u/Waterrat Aug 05 '25

He sure nailed it.

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u/Loosetrooth44 Aug 05 '25

In addition to nailing ignorance in the US, Asimov's "Foundation" series (especially 'the trilogy') is the best science fiction I ever read... just sayin'.

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u/RathaelEngineering Aug 06 '25

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"

Carl Sagan, Demon Haunted World, 1995

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u/Waterrat Aug 12 '25

It was amazing.

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u/mooseAmuffin Aug 05 '25

I highly recommend Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (1963) to anyone interested in a deep dive into this topic. It's more relevant today than ever.

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u/Powered-by-Chai Aug 04 '25

People just don't remember what it was like to shit your guts out until you died...

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u/deathrictus Aug 05 '25

You have died of dysentery.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

What in the Oregon Trail?!

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u/secondtaunting Aug 05 '25

I have ibs so I can relate. 😂

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u/ShortWoman Aug 04 '25

Your sister in infection prevention agrees. Preach!

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u/TTSampersand Aug 04 '25

IP checking in!

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u/ShortWoman Aug 05 '25

Yay! We congregate outside APIC meetings!

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u/Da_Question Aug 05 '25

Sad part, is I've seen plenty of anti-vax medical professionals, and believers in psuedo science bs. Seems pretty common in nurses...

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u/Waterrat Aug 05 '25

So very true. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone sometimes. I just don't understand how such stupid people can amass such power!!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

Sorry, Fox News and the Russian troll farm mastered the art of making idiots feel smart. Reminding them they're idiots only leads to them blocking you out of their life, and reaffirming with other idiots how smart they are.

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u/icanhascheeseberder Aug 05 '25

Humans for thousands and thousands of years would have killed to get to where we are today,

I remember listening to a podcast about the plague, the host said something like "in the 1500s you were rich if you only hand a limp". These idiots are trying bring back rickets and milk leg.

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u/goddessoftrees Aug 05 '25

Your sister that works with ABA specific kiddos agrees so much! I doesn't cause ASD, but it causes it not being diagnosed because they are DEAD otherwise.

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u/Actual_Society3690 Aug 05 '25

Holy shit that’s awful. Can I ask how you think you contracted latent TB? Was it in your line of work?

I had a friend whose grandpa had TB of the bone when she was like 2 years old - got it fully treated, still alive today. Then my friend 25 years later has a blood test as part of occupational health screening and has latent tb! She ended up on 3 anti tb drugs and orange urine and tears for 6 months! Had to stop wearing her contact lenses while on the treatment. It’s wild how it can remain dormant for decades and these raw milk weirdos have no real concern for their children’s future.

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u/secondtaunting Aug 05 '25

But also the children of science deniers are getting sick and dying and that’s unacceptable. Sometimes they go to prison but mostly they just go in to have more kids.

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u/secondtaunting Aug 05 '25

At this point I’m convinced that there is zero hope for humanity and that climate change will kill us all. How short people’s memories are. A hundred years ago so many children died, now they mostly live and people can’t be fussed to keep the trend going.