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Ladapo going further off the rocker

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8trGr8t, Oct 21, 2022.

  1. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    If Ladapo is DeSantis idea of a good appointment we are in real trouble if he gets a national office. Can you imagine a cabinet full of people like this? This is an embarrassment for UF and the state of Florida.

    Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo went on two far-right conspiracy theory podcasts while pushing anti-vaccine misinformation (msn.com)

    Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo this week went on multiple far-right podcasts known for spreading conspiracy theories, including anti-vaccine misinformation and false claims of election fraud.

    Ladapo appeared on the X22 Report and The Stew Peters Show, two podcasts with a history of sharing baseless conspiracies and referencing QAnon myths. His appearances were first spotted by researcher Alex Kaplan and journalist Nick Martin, respectively, as reported by The Washington Post. Stew Peters is one of the most visible figures in the far-right influencer circuit — he has almost 300,000 Telegram followers and has peddled a long list of conspiracy theories from Pizzagate to QAnon.

    Ladapo was appointed to the role by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a little over a year ago. He has an extensive record of loud and public opposition to lockdowns and mask mandates, as well as going against the overwhelming advice of medical experts by falsely claiming that young men should not take the COVID-19 vaccine.

    Ladapo recently drew widespread criticism after the Florida Department of Health published its own report on mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The analysis — widely panned as "flawed" by experts in statistics, public health, epidemiology, and emergency medicine — determined the COVID-19 vaccine is risky for men under the age of 40.
     
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  2. 14serenoa

    14serenoa Living in Orange and surrounded by Seminoles... VIP Member

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    UF must sever his contract. Hope our new President kicks this dude to the curb.
     
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  3. citygator

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    The allure of money, attention and influence corrupts all.

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  4. philnotfil

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    Thread title should be spelled Ladapo
     
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  5. dangolegators

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    Right wing leaders appoint quacks like Ladapo because they place ideology over expertise.
     
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  6. buckeyegator

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    and then we have kamala and buttieg
     
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  7. GatorFanCF

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    I don’t know who this guy is.

    The OP is all about this guy going on shows and associating with people with whom manny people disagree. If this was Germany in the 1930’s he would be criticized for not recognizing the obvious threat of the Jews, which most German experts knew were the source of problems for the country.

    Essentially the OP is saying “he doesn’t agree with the most common conventions; ergo, he’s an idiot and must be removed from public life” I’m always wary about the experts who want to silence the minority.
     
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  8. PITBOSS

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    Regarding Ladapo‘s recommendations….

    “this is politics driving science and the result is you get terrible science.”

    Daniel Salmon, director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University
     
  9. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    He is a antivax quack who was a professor out west before DeSantis forced UF Medical school to hire him and appointed him Surgeon General for the state of Florida. The overwhelming majority of doctors and scientists view his positions as quackery. To advance his unconventional beliefs he has started joining Qanon and vaccine deniers conspiracy sites to find an audience that believes his misinformation.
     
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  10. BLING

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    For one thing, perhaps you should educate yourself as to “who this guy is” and his politically forced connection to UF?

    That’s also a pretty shitty/offensive Nazi metaphor considering this “doctor” is cohorting with propagandists. I.e. the parallel would actually not be with him standing up for Jews, if anything this offensive parallel would be the opposite, he would be among those spreading lies to advance his position in Hitler’s Nazi party. I’d never heard of these programs, but a quick check of their bios makes it a very obviously strange/inappropriate choice for a surgeon general to appear on.
     
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  11. gator_lawyer

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    If this was Germany in the 1930s, he'd be one the dillweeds spouting eugenics to justify why the Jews are the problem. That's the side misinformation-spouting propagandists were on.
     
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  12. coleg

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    DeSantis has given us so much to be abjectly embarrassed for our state.
     
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  13. gator_lawyer

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    And yet, he's going to win reelection by a good-sized margin. Shows how far our state has fallen.
     
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  14. l_boy

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    While I suspect unlike Trump Desantis is at least competent, and occasionally produces good legislation - but he seems like a power hungry little egotistical twit who is happy to spread disinformation resembles guys like Orban in Hungary and Ergodyne in Turkey. In some ways more dangerous than Trump because Desantis is smart enough to actually accomplish some of his less desirable goals.
     
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  15. gator_lawyer

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    Oh, on the topic of Ladapo being a clown:
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  16. l_boy

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    Yeah it’s not even close.

    It is interesting that 1 booster wasn’t materially different than no booster, but 2 boosters was.
     
  17. tampagtr

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    Has credentials, but got caught up in the Hoover Institute entrepreneurial medical Covid opinions and the Barrington nonsense. When you read close, there was always a primary economic overlay, which was the base analysis. That would be bad enough, but then they get cloistered and get a little loony, and you get stuff like this
     
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  18. Trickster

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    What about them? What outrageous ideas are they advocating, or is it only that one is gay and the other a woman of color?
     
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  19. GatorFanCF

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    It’s one way to look at it. Another way is Majority vs Minority opinion. In this case the OP wants to silence the minority and have this person fired.

    600 years ago everyone knew the world was flat. In the 1930’s the NYTIMES won a Pulitzer for reporting, among other things, that Stalin was not starving Ukraine. He only starved a few million people. Sometimes the experts are wrong. Be wary of how you treat the minority- you might be next.
     
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    For righties, the idea of having a gay person or a woman of color in a position of power is outrageous in itself.
     
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