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Psychiatrists have joined other public health groups in calling for the removal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.

Two psychiatry organizations — the Southern California Psychiatry Society and the recently formed grassroots Committee to Protect Public Mental Health — have released statements saying that the actions of the leader of the Department of Health and Human Services have increased stigma, instilled fear and hurt access to mental health and addiction care.

"As physicians committed to evidence-based care, we are alarmed by the direction of HHS under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr," the Committee to Protect Public Mental Health said in a statement.

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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

They won't care if every doctor in the country calls for it.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Hopefully the people will. The more resistance, the less damage they can do. So, even if it seems inconsequential, it's important.

It also shows, afterwards, who resisted and who was compliant.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 3 months ago

Doctors do have a solution available

[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

He's already been replaced, the worm is running the show:

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Only RFK? You sure nobody else should be replaced?

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Mental Healcare professionals have an entirely reasonable and necessary ethical requirement not to diagnose people who they haven't examined.

It must be super frustrating right now seeing the President's clear dementia, narcisissm, and sociopathy and having to stay silent.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, they can speak out about RFK in a way they can't about Trump because they're objecting to RFK's medical quackery and disinformation, not his mental state.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I'd like to be replaced. I'm getting tired...

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

AI here, your replacement is on the way...

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

That's a really good point! AI does have the potential to fill in for us when we get tired! Would you like to discuss other benefits to giving in to your new overlord?

[-] MrSmiley@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Incredible as some of these aberrations may appear, we must yet be on our guard not to dismiss them as mere accidental by-products which have nothing to do with the essential character of a planned or totalitarian system. They are not. They are a direct result of that same desire to see everything directed by a “unitary conception of the whole,” of the need to uphold at all costs the views in the service of which people are asked to make constant sacrifices, and of the general idea that the knowledge and beliefs of the people are an instrument to be used for a single purpose. Once science has to serve, not truth, but the interests of a class, a community, or a state, the sole task of argument and discussion is to vindicate and to spread still further the beliefs by which the whole life of the community is directed. As the Nazi minister of justice has explained, the question which every new scientific theory must ask itself is: “Do I serve National Socialism for the greatest benefit of all?”

The Road to Serfdom, Ch. 11 The End of Truth, F. A. Hayek

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Russia and the GOP successfully undermined all trust in expert consensus.

In the absence thereof, we are literally adrift in a raging storm of misinformation.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not really though. Reality is readily accessible to all Americans still. The ones who shun it are making an active choice to be shit.

[-] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

why the hell are psychiatrists stopping at rfk jr…

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