Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded. These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them. 229106502868
Michele Simon, JD, MPH @michelersimon.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I also hate it because it sounds reasonable. Like a club of something. 010
Dane Pop Frippery @danepopfrippery.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I'd go with phobics or just straight up idiots 000
Claude the Irregular Dragon (TM) @ruprecht-monkeeboy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Let's keep it real. RFK Jr. is a total mush brain. 000
Tami @vermintamimarie.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Cranks is way kinder than the word I was thinking 🤬 020
Eliana @otrodia.bsky.social · 08/09/2025And somehow, the useless pendejos only become extremist anti #vaccine cranks, when it comes to you and me. They have vaccinated themselves and their family members, including their children. #FuckTheGOP #Covid 000
Maybelle @maybellemabel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025He’s a nutjob eugenicist who has made ME sound crazy when I have to use words to describe the waste of his life. And how offensive I find it that his policies are going to kill me. 000
cranemonster.bsky.social @cranemonster.bsky.social · 07/09/2025I feel like the right has gotten really good at just taking a word. Then using it wrong until it has lost meaning. They took the wrong lessons from 1984 I can make joke that the target audience doesn't understand. But now I won't use the term skeptic and shifted to evidence based. 161
Marnilou @marnilou2.bsky.social · 08/09/2025These people are driven by emotion, not logic. No amount of evidence can convince them vaccines are safe. 010
On life's Journey @journeygophell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025AMEN, everyone is saying RK Kennedy, JR & other Rethuglican reality deniers are making big bucks for their actions risking millions of lives from those who sell their "Snake Oil Treatment" &/or others who cling to their delusions every to the point of risking children & grandchildren's lives. SAD. 000
we-are-all-human.bsky.social @we-are-all-human.bsky.social · 08/09/2025"Evidence deniers"? "Liars"? 000
Sharklicker 2000 (Inglorious basterd) @sharklicker2000.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Like referencing "felonious child rapist Donald trump" in EVERY instance. 000
Annie Haz @anniehaz.bsky.social · 07/09/2025I think "Pro Disease idiots", is a more accurate description! 020
Lisa PG @zilapg.bsky.social · 07/09/2025They aren’t anti-vaccine cranks. They are ‘trying to rid ourselves of unworthys without getting our hands dirtys’. 000
Lazy Circles Esq @lazycirclesesq.bsky.social · 08/09/2025media.tenor.coma cartoon dog wearing headphones is pressing a red button that says likeAlt: a cartoon dog wearing headphones is pressing a red button that says like 010
fauxrrari1.bsky.social @fauxrrari1.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Pro-diseasers. Call them what they are. 030
bluegirlfighter.bsky.social @bluegirlfighter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025But they get vaccinated . They get there kids vaccinated . I find it so weird that they get vaccinated . The Covid vaccine they were the first in line . Hello 000
GrumpyGizmo @grumpygizmo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Yup. Example: I’m always skeptical about reports on events as they happen. I wait a day or two before I develop trust in what I read or hear. 000
zelenooq.bsky.social @zelenooq.bsky.social · 08/09/2025The media are to blame for all of this shit 000
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Please say this about climate deniers next! We've been trying to get this point across for years to no avail. 1322
Em Taylor @emtaylorbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025My father got polio in 1949. He spent 2 weeks in an iron lung. He was disabled the rest of his life. I know no one in my generation who even caught polio because we were all vaccinated. These vaccine cranks are dangerous idiots. My dad lived a happy healthy life but he very nearly died. 000
rainwarror52.bsky.social @rainwarror52.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Here's the future of healthcare in America... 081
R.J. Gerber Jr. @fathitler.com · 08/09/2025Indeed, these people are biological terrorists and depraved indifference mass-murderers. 020
Puna Green B.O.H.I.C.A. @punagreen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025He and taco are TRYING to kill off everyone. Survivor of the fittest. So we can be good slaves. 000
walterpeggy.bsky.social @walterpeggy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Kennedy is an anti vax entrepreneur. He’s made his living from destroying science. 020
missscarlett22.bsky.social @missscarlett22.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Good luck trying to get the media to frame things the way they should be framed. They're too busy propping up Trump & the rest of the GOP. 020
therecognizer.bsky.social @therecognizer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025#jailthequack #quack #jailRFKjr #liar #antivaxxerlies #qanonteepublic.comRFK Quack by pompeuxanti vaxxing liar 010
daslucky.bsky.social @daslucky.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Yes reporters please stop sugarcoating the truth 000
WILLIAM😎 @williamstlucia.bsky.social · 08/09/2025You do realize you're asking reporters to print the actual views of what's going on and not what they're being told to print🤬 011
missatlanticcity.bsky.social @missatlanticcity.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Fruitcakes! End of conversation 🥶 000
Marillyn75@blueskysocial @marilyn75.bsky.social · 08/09/2025The proof & truth is out there. Insanity is in charge with RFK Jr. & his crew! Let reality & common sense return before more people suffer & die! 010
opsan @opsan.com · 08/09/2025The RFK Menace: Don't take Medical Advice from me. bsky.app/profile/opsa... Some have fallen into the trap: "RFK said something sensible a while back; therefore, he must be trustworthy". He did, but he's not.opsan@opsan.comRFK Repost (suddenly relevant again). Medical Advice. "I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me". 020
Nora Paterson @norapaterson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Absolutely. Why are journalist so afraid to use terms like rapist and liar? 000
Dave Urban @davidjohnurban.bsky.social · 08/09/2025All we ask is honest and unbiased reporting, why is that so hard? 000
Shield Maiden - Chartreuse , living in a lemon-lime world! @shieldmaiden7.bsky.social · 07/09/2025They're total kooks. 030
Liz Pollock: bookseller, non-fiction writer. @lizpollockbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025they're a$$holes, okay? 000
priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 08/09/2025He makes over a million dollars a year from peddling antivax views. 000
Julie Zimmer @jzimmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Scientists rely on skepticism to uncover truth. RFK Jr. clings to quack science. 000
slandersonwdc.bsky.social @slandersonwdc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025media.tenor.coma man making a funny face with a zzypto.com logo in the backgroundALT: a man making a funny face with a zzypto.com logo in the background 000
Vera Stone Williams @verastone23.bsky.social · 08/09/2025The MSM has fine us wrong for 10 years now, always downplaying the threat. 000
5nark Twain @5narktwain.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Fuck Dr Strangeworm bsky.app/profile/5nar...5nark Twain@5narktwain.bsky.social#RFK #DemVoice1 Breaking: RFK Jr.’s brain isn’t running on facts — it’s running on worms. Suddenly his anti-science takes make perfect sense. #WormBrain #ScienceVsSlime #RFKjrLogic #CrawlBackToReality 000
lerris.bsky.social @lerris.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Agreed. I also hate when reporters say things like, "Trump believes." No, at best it is Trump says. There is no foundation to assume he believes any of it. It is all performative. They get power out of it. 030
AuDHD Chronically Ill @megcastiel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025They aren't even "cranks." They are eugenicists seeking research that supports and validates that view. They are dangerous. 000
Joan Elliott @jme71.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I think they are really kooks! They have no scientific mentality. Only trumpcality 000
Otto ⚛️ @noacttoosmall.com · 08/09/2025Same sane-washing that the pro-pollution propagandists get on climate. They deliberately lie to push their toxic agenda and the media slavishly treats it as science skepticism. 110
bradleyjakej.bsky.social @bradleyjakej.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I’ve long said that the “skeptical movement” needs to rebrand. The layperson definition of “skeptic” is a conspiracy theorist, not a scientist. 000
HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Thank you! I just got my COVID booster and my flu shot today and I'm VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE PRIVILEGE. 000
notsillylikesome.bsky.social @notsillylikesome.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Cranks crackpots kooks crazies fruitcakes loons wackos Any/all of these are far more accurate descriptions than "vaccine skeptics" 000
DogLover @primpeterson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I agree. Is mainstream media so afraid of being sued, thank you very much CBS for buckling to Trump, that they won’t report the truth any longer? 000
Jeannie is feeling disturbed @sfmisfit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025They act like they don’t know words or something. 🤔 000
That.American @thatamerican.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Just stop with the ignorant political bullshit. He's trying to fix a flawed system whilst you are just circle jerking with all the other democrats who have TDS. It's sad. You are killing children with your lust and greed for power. 000
Temu Bob Ross @ososalsosal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025News orgs will only ever pair the word "extremist" with either brown people or left-leaning people with consciences. 030
MsWaldoJeffers @waldojeffers-13.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Thank you for this distinction. I'm skeptical of all big pharma for legitimate reasons. I certainly don't want to be confused with this lot. 010
jackop64.bsky.social @jackop64.bsky.social · 08/09/2025They are dangerous. evil, misguided idiots who are never comfortable with facts and the truth! 000
wickedjulia.bsky.social @wickedjulia.bsky.social · 09/09/2025RFK JR is completely unqualified to safeguard the health of Americans. His own sister has tried to warn us. 020
kimba6.bsky.social @kimba6.bsky.social · 08/09/2025But they will receive vaccines themselves and so will their families. That’s the part I find the most frustrating. Why won’t they let other people have what they have? 000
crinsc.bsky.social @crinsc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025@VanJones says “I think we’re in very divided, turbulent times.” Thank God for his and all of CNN’s incredible insights and journalistic excellence. 000
markjohnconley1953.bsky.social @markjohnconley1953.bsky.social · 11/01/2026thank you; that needed to be said from the beginning bravo sir 010
saskiatavares.bsky.social @saskiatavares.bsky.social · 08/09/2025They also call them „conspiracy theorists“ like they were trying (and, at least in theory, able) to find proof for what they believe. No! These ppl are conspiracy fantasts at best and conspiracy terrorists at worst. 000
Small World-Big adventure @louise007.bsky.social · 08/09/2025COOKERS - Australian term meaning cooked in the head, brain fried. Dangerous nutjob conspiracists. 010
johnwthompson.bsky.social @johnwthompson.bsky.social · 07/09/2025True, RFK Jr is a skeptic creator. 000
kevinzoidberg.bsky.social @kevinzoidberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025dangerous conspiracy theorist vile ignorant grifter architect of 200+ deaths in somoa from similar unfounded unscientific anti vax theories criminal heroin addict 000
Kelli Midlife Mom @midlifemom.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Exactly - Kennedy has already made up his mind from the lies and nonsense all his anti vaccine nuts have shared 000
Lee Rowan 🐕 🐈⬛ 🌳 🌈 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 🐉 🇺🇦🦇🪶🖋️ 🇺🇸 @leerowan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I tend to use "crazy sons of bitches," but that's just me. I'm skeptical about a lot of things, especially ANYTHING said by ANY MAGAt. 010
Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025There was an effort to rebrand anti vaxxers as vaccine skeptics a few years ago. The consensus was that by labeling them as skeptics they were more persuadable, while the other label merely hardened their viewpoints. No idea if this was true, but I'm pretty sure this is how we got here. 200
Mike Holloway @mikeholloway.bsky.social · 08/09/2025No, the virus was not created in a lab. No, the CDC didn’t lie. No, Antony Fauci did not make people anti-vax. No, there is no common ground to work with Junior. 000
Paislie Giraffe Arts @paisliegiraffe.bsky.social · 07/09/2025I think “bioterrorists” is more accurate. 020
bigvinny @bigvinny-svu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025They are antivaxxer hacks who would be long perished in the 1800s. Can we send them back in time so that they can stop bullshitting about vaccines? 020
JeannetteBlue @jeannetteblue.bsky.social · 08/09/2025As important, why is he being repeatedly described this way? Because the MSM are treating this like a game unless their oligarch handlers are afraid, and then the adjectives get inflammatory. 000
karel.online @karel.online · 08/09/2025Exactly. Is it really so weird to ask professional journalists to use words normally again? 030
A Horse of Course @charliehorsephotos.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Let's just start the real conversation that needs to happen. The news outlets that are pushing this softballing of History and events are propaganda outlets. @nytdiff.bsky.social shows exactly how they keep memory holeing events to make them softer for their fascist friends. 011
Shirley0401 @shirley0401.bsky.social · 08/09/2025"Anti-vaxxer" is a word people understand and the same number of syllables. 020
Sister Rainbow Unicorn 💙😺🐶 @sisrainbowunicorn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025That term has been bugging me too, and all the media says it like they are afraid to say these people are a claque of deadly kooks. Some of the media used to use the term vaccine deniers, but apparently decided that was too mean. 000
Papa OMG @papaomg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Premeditated murderers & most likely already successful.☠️ 000
Ike55 @ike55.bsky.social · 07/09/2025“News organizations” youtu.be/DZplCtamjCs?...youtu.beMovie Quotes Sneakers 1992 Don't kid yourself it's not that organizedYouTube video by TheJML9999 000
pandagrl1.bsky.social @pandagrl1.bsky.social · 07/09/2025While we’re at it, stop referring to Trump as a wannabe dictator, and start referring to him as a fascist dictator right now. 171
Damon Bernstein @damonkb54.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Agreed, but also stop calling him RFK anything. It make he seem like part of the family. Just call is dumb ass, Kennedy, and people will associate him 100
Aestra @rapscallionpancake.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Be super accurate and call them the right wing death squad. 000
Just Army (Fuck ICE) Rob @armyrob.bsky.social · 08/09/2025That’s how this whole administration should be covered as cranks and Looney Tunes. 000
Edward R. Murrow-ish 🎙️ @jamkam6969.bsky.social · 08/09/2025To follow on this urgent and current linguistic update: Administration ≠ regime Defense ≠ war DoJ and FBI≠ justice 020
IrishIceSP @irishicesp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Better term: Death Mongers. What they're doing is promoting lies that will result in deaths. Don't dress it up with the euphemism "misinformation". They are LIARS and their lies will directly contribute to the deaths of too many innocents. 040
Duggy Endo @duggyendo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025So true. The same can be said for "Climate Skeptics". "Both Siding" these positions (anti-vax, climate hoax) is not journalism, it's platforming disinformation. 030
maitfine.bsky.social @maitfine.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Exactly. And they should stop calling Trump a Republican, too. He's a FASCIST DICTATOR. 000
Domahe @domahe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025He acts more like a foreign agent intent on killing as many US citizens as possible. 120
Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Vaccine cynics, who make money from their "activism" while vaccinating themselves and their families? 010
WeirdPrimate @weirdprimate.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Journalist “RFK Jr is a fucking idiot who’s going to kill us all” Editor “RFK Jr has extremist anti-vaccine beliefs” Oligarch owner “RFK Jr is a vaccine skeptic” 020
Grace @gracewithgrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025🎯 Have they forgotten that RFK Jr. traveled to Samoa in 2019 and his dangerous lies about the measles vaccine fueled low vaccination rates, resulting in an outbreak that infected thousands and killed 83 people, mostly children. That’s not skepticism. He caused preventable deaths. 0241
Jetgurl @jetgurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Exactly. I just had a nut on Reddit tell me that the vaccines were now being made by RFK Jr.’s people, and the CDC. 🫤🤔🤯 000
mikeocon.bsky.social @mikeocon.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Yeah it's tiring seeing people call him a vaccine skeptic. NYT reporters are making it out to be some kind of both sides argument of 'some who say anti vaccine, other vaccine skeptic'. Look at what he's done for the last 20 years, vaccine skeptic is misleading. Anti vaccine activist. That's his work 000
Flachmixer @flachmixer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025It’s a tight controlled belief ship the tanned monkey is running. So call him Captain Tan! And his followers non-vaxx seamen…😏 000
Caoimhín Ó Ceallacháin @jayden5445.bsky.social · 08/09/2025#EpsteinTrump Remember Trump nominated Kennedy and the Republican Senate confirmed him. 000
Gail Rebecca @gailrebecca.bsky.social · 08/09/2025How i agonized way back in 2017 waiting foreverrrr to hear the word LIE from any media 000
Bill Weinstein @billweinstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025“Recovering heroin addict” serves as introduction for RFK Jr. 000
🇺🇸🇨🇿🇺🇦⚫ @czeckmate2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2025“Crackpot” has worked the best. He denies the germ explanation for infectious diseases. Sen Cantwell used “charlatan” that also fits. Ppl haven’t understood that Kennedy wants to destroy the entire edifice of science, medicine, bcz he claims 100+ yrs of science is all wrong, and uses a phony 271
ℂ𝕙𝕖𝕫 💙 🌊 @yammz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Crazy fucker fits. He has more weird things than just medical and health. 000
Dana Knows Insanity When She Sees It. 😵💫🥊 @danadoesdemocracy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Exactly!media.tenor.coma woman wearing a parka with a fur hood looks at the cameraALT: a woman wearing a parka with a fur hood looks at the camera 0110
曹昌倫 @arlentsao.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Unfortunately, these establishment news organizations are for-profit corporations that need to be broken up. They have long sold out to the highest bidder and no longer represent a healthy diverse opinions nor do they truly fact check things. Americans need to completely give up cable TV. 020
La Pa McDah @lapamcdah.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Facts!! 🎯 So true, the news has to get this right and stop pu**y footing around on this and everything else this authoritarian regime is doing, or we will no longer have a democracy! 110
unseelie court reporter @einsofasectional.bsky.social · 08/09/2025they can try that, but they'll just get their work modified by editors. then they'll get fired. 000
dubhcroi.bsky.social @dubhcroi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025That and as liars, it is what they are. Let’s normalize calling out liars as only liars again. 020
Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Every person who's every worked on a vaccine or refereed research on the subject is a "skeptic". Skepticism means that you don't believe without seeing evidence. But you can accept the evidence and the theory, too! Vaccine deniers are gainsayers.media.tenor.comtwo men are sitting at a desk and talking to each other with the words the argument clinic above themALT: two men are sitting at a desk and talking to each other with the words the argument clinic above them 010
PeaceandQuiet @peaceabdquiet.bsky.social · 08/09/2025The media has become so unreliable I wonder if we have been lied to for years ? 000
Josh A. @slappyj5.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Also if you’re a reporter ASK REAL QUESTIONS. MAKE THEM ANSWER FOR THIS MADNESS 020
Magpie Juno @maggiejuno.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I refuse to”legacy” media until they gets their heads outta their butts, theyre not doing their jobs 000
Silencio Dogwood @silenciodogwood.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Incisive & accurate observation. Thank you.🙏 040
You’reOnMute @mindydissents.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Exactly. And they’re openly committing atrocities. 000
Thomas Swords 🇮🇪 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ @thomasswords.bsky.social · 08/09/2025At the very least, call them “vaccine deniers.” 000
rdp666.bsky.social @rdp666.bsky.social · 10/09/2025So my question for you is when RFK says there's a new vaccine that everybody has to take for "public safety" or they won't be able to go to work or travel I assume you'll be lined up to take that vaccine. Always ask how something can be used against you 010
Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Hallelujah , from a trained skeptic ( B.Sc., Geology). 000
🇨🇦Pouhlamouh🇨🇦 @dequesse.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Disease and/or plague enthusiasts would also be more and more accurate as the seasons change 😑 000
Elanie @elanie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Radical anti science terrorists is a more appropriate label 000
Red Garnet @curiosa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Name-calling is not considered effective or ethical journalism in the United States and is against the professional standards of most news organizations. It is instead regarded as a form of propaganda that undermines credibility and detracts from substantive reporting. 100
UnBound World 🕊️ @rocktheworld2peace.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Real #journalists do Not name call. They record facts and leave personal opinions at home. It is unfortunate that #opinionism and #socialMedia have undermined the valuable social beacon for democracy that journalist die for. #Neutrality #Facts #Reporting #humanity 010
AutumnSun9 @autumnsun9.bsky.social · 07/09/2025RFK and C. Means along with thousands of others are financially taking in the 💰 by blasting antivax policies. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...politico.comWellness CEO files ethics complaint against top RFK Jr. adviserAn internal MAHA battle is breaking out between an HHS employee who co-founded a health care payments company and a CEO of a rival company. 040
🇨🇦💚💙DomesticMetisGoddess💚💙🇨🇦 Names Jen! @witcan74.bsky.social · 08/09/2025media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table and pointing up with his finger .ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table and pointing up with his finger . 040
Angry Persian Gardener ✊🏼🐈⬛🤘🏼 @angrypersiangardnr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025If you’re a reporter, start every sentence with his abuse of anabolic steroids abuse of human growth hormones, and abuse of testosterone. And find his coke dealer. 000
Leefeller @leefeller.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Good point, lets be more accurate in our comments. RFK Jr and his cronies are asshole anti vaccine cranks. 120
Dave in AK @bikewritedave.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Antivaxx lunatic is the minimum if being polite matters. But why stop there? 000
HelenPoznanski @hpkonly.bsky.social · 08/09/2025MSM has done nothing but you sanitized words to describe the horror that is this Administration. 020
weekendoasis.bsky.social @weekendoasis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Also, skeptics are not the same as lawmakers and appointed makers. In my opinion, Bill Cassidy, Senator (doctor) from Louisiana should lose his medical license for enabling Kennedy. A med license requires an oath to Do No Harm, and he def violated that with his vote. 000
ricketyclik @ricketyclik.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Apparently RFK actually believes in the efficacy of vaccines, but sees the anti-vax and associated grab bag of issues as a productive voter lode to mine. 350
Lil’ Rhody Visibility Brigade @lilrhodyvisbrigade.bsky.social · 07/09/2025They are LYING FASCISTS is who they are. 000
Mihkel Kraav @suijure.bsky.social · 08/09/2025A lot depends on the wording used, it already contains a message and emotional charge! For example, "pro life" would (IMHO) be a much better expression for those who would like to limit the spread of small arms, not where they are used. 000
demcrack.bsky.social @demcrack.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The Left are pharmaceutical whores who accept millions in donations. THIS is the ONLY reason the left defends vaccines. Vaccines have sky-rocketed over the past 30 years when few were ever needed in the first place. Humans have been doing fine for as long as we've been here...until recently. 200