#medical misinformation

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Of course, why didn't the doctor know this?

#ads #advertising #bunny #rabbit #tinnitus #unreality #medical misinformation #do not try this

[fernthewhimsical]

Apparently there's a Dutch essential oil company who is putting recipes on pinterest for "morphine" and "paracetamol" which are PURE oils that you put in a capsule and then take every few hours.

They also recommend to give their anti stress blend to your child IN AN INHALOR to take to school.

So here's you annual reminder that essential oils are dangerous and should not be taken internally or topically without consulting a professional herbalist and/or you doctor

(And yes, I did report them for medical misinformation)

#the rate at which I keep finding these weird things is worrying #witchcraft #witch #witchblr #essential oils #home medicine #medical misinformation #beginner witch

[anhed-nia]

NEXT WEEK on 12/5, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies - Online Branch wraps up our Fall semester with a fresh take on a familiar topic in Leah Richards' lecture Vampirism Gone Viral: Medical Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy!

Vampires have always been carriers for the contemporary anxieties of the cultures that created them, including fears around health care crises. When threatened, many people abandon scientific evidence in favor of panicked fear-mongering even in relation to, for example, vaccines for preventable childhood illness. This lecture will consider how post-AIDS crisis vampires in film and television, from the time of BLADE (1998) to the cusp of COVID-19, have reflected our fears of infection, contagion, and containment. Examples will include the television series American Horror Story: Hotel and The Strain, the 2006 TV movie version of DRACULA, and the films BLADE, THIRST, and I AM LEGEND. Hear how these tales of fantastical contagion reflect the real-world monsters of weaponized misinformation, scientific denialism, and vaccine hesitancy:

#horror #vampires #vampirism #body horror #medical horror #dark academia #medical misinformation #vaccines #pandemic #virus

[destielmemenews]

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#destiel meme #destiel meme news #united states #us news #news #youtube #misinformation #medical misinformation #health policy

[odinsblog]

When the Supreme Court’s decision undoing Roe v. Wade came down in June, anti-abortion groups were jubilant – but far from satisfied. Many in the movement have a new target: hormonal birth control. It seems contradictory; doesn’t preventing unwanted pregnancies also prevent abortions? But anti-abortion groups don’t see it that way. They falsely claim that hormonal contraceptives like IUDs and the pill can actually cause abortions.

One prominent group making this claim is Students for Life of America, whose president has said she wants contraceptives like IUDs and birth control pills to be illegal. The fast-growing group has built a social media campaign spreading the false idea that hormonal birth control is an abortifacient.

Reveal’s Amy Mostafa teams up with UC Berkeley journalism and law students to dig into the world of young anti-abortion influencers and how medical misinformation gains traction on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, with far-reaching consequences.

Tens of millions of Americans use hormonal contraceptives to prevent pregnancy and regulate their health. And many have well-founded complaints about side effects, from nausea to depression – not to mention well-justified anger about how the medical establishment often pooh-poohs those concerns. Anti-abortion and religious activists have jumped into the fray, urging people to reject hormonal birth control as “toxic” and promoting non-hormonal “fertility awareness” methods – a movement they’re trying to rebrand as “green sex.” Mother Jones Senior Editor Kiera Butler explains how secular wellness influencers such as Jolene Brighten, who sells a $300 birth control “hormone reset,” are having their messages adopted by anti-abortion influencers, many of them with deep ties to Catholic institutions.

The end of Roe triggered a Missouri law that immediately banned almost all abortions. Many were shocked when a major health care provider in the state announced it would also no longer offer emergency contraception pills – Plan B – because of a false belief that it could cause an abortion. While the health system soon reversed its policy, it wasn’t the first time Missouri policymakers have been roiled by the myth that emergency contraception can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting and cause an abortion. Reveal senior reporter and producer Katharine Mieszkowski tracks how lawmakers in the state have been confronting this misinformation campaign and looks to the future of how conservatives are aiming to use birth control as their new wedge issue.

—The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion

#politics #republicans #religious reich #birth control #contraception #abortion #scotus #evangelical christians #christian nationalism #republican culture wars #roe v wade #war on women #students for life #pro choice #medical #medical disinformation #medical misinformation #plan b #gwb #george bush #hormonal birth control #jolene brighten

[sophieinwonderland]

I recently saw a post in the endogenic tags that seemed dedicated to convincing non-disordered systems that they had DID. Most of the points are things I actually agree with, mostly, but...

No. Just absolutely not.

This is extremely dangerous, trying to convince people who literally do not meet the definition of a disorder to identify as having one. Which, I think for all I hear from anti-endos about hating endogenic systems supposedly invading their communities, it's kind of ironic that these actions are going to lead to non-disordered systems convinced they must have a dissociative disorder.

But you don't have to take it from me. You can take it from an expert in dissociative identity disorder.

While this interview was specifically about tulpas, this part applies to all forms of plurality. If you don't meet the criteria for clinically significant distress or impairment, YOU DON'T HAVE THE DISORDER.

This isn't just some circular redundancy where it's assumed by default that everyone who meets the other criteria has to have it. As explained in the DSM, it exists to separate actual disorders from nonpathological presentations of the those same symptoms.

Yes, you can still love your system and get along. But there does need to be some form of distress or impairment in those specified areas to qualify for a diagnosis under the DSM. You can be distressed but not impaired. You can be impaired but not distressed. And those don't need to be constant for the diagnosis to be valid. But you do need to experience one or the other.

Trying to convince people that the distress and impairment criterion can be completely ignored and doesn't matter is so INCREDIBLY HARMFUL TO LITERALLY EVERYONE.

It's harmful to impressionable non-disordered system who are being convinced that they must have a mental disorder they don't.

And it's harmful to the DID and OSDD community that doesn't want non-disordered systems in spaces exclusively for DID and OSDD.

Absolutely everyone suffers from this type of gross medical misinformation.

#syscourse #endogenic #plural #actuallyplural #pro endo #pro endogenic #psychiatry #psychology #actually endogenic #endogenic system #plurality #plural system #system #systems #multiplicity #medical misinformation #actuallymultiple

[mmeveronica]

@staff I DEMAND an explanation for how you could allow this ad on Tumblr.

This ad is literally telling you to go blind yourself to help your vision. How else could this ad be interpreted, what board or division of your company could POSSIBLY think this is an okay ad to show? This is outrageous, this is dangerous, this is impermissible.

#tumblr #tumblr ads #medical misinformation

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Just before 7 am on March 3, Danny Lemoi posted an update in his hugely popular pro-ivermectin Telegram group, Dirt Road Discussions: “HAPPY FRIDAY ALL YOU POISONOUS HORSE PASTE EATING SURVIVORS !!!”

Hours later, Lemoi was dead.

For the last decade, Lemoi had taken a daily dose of veterinary ivermectin, a dewormer designed to be used on large animals like horses and cows. In 2021, as ivermectin became a popular alternative COVID-19 treatment among anti-vaxxers, he launched what became one of the largest Telegram channels dedicated to promoting the use of it, including instructions on how to administer ivermectin to children.

But despite Lemoi’s death, the administrators of his channel are pushing his misinformation—even as his followers share their own worrying possible side effects from taking ivermectin and some question the safety of the drug.

Lemoi, a heavy equipment operator who lived in Foster, Rhode Island, “passed away unexpectedly” on March 3, according to an online obituary post by his family last week. He was survived by his parents and brother. The obituary gave no details about the cause of his death.

In the Telegram channel, administrators broke the news of his death to his followers. “Though it was obvious that Danny had the biggest heart, it was unbeknownst to him that his heart was quite literally overworking and overgrowing beyond its capacity, nearly doubled in size from what it should have been,” the admins wrote, adding: “We understand that this is going to raise questions for those who were following him.”

The admins added that Lemoi had undergone testing on his heart last year, but the results had shown no cause for concern.

Lemoi began taking the version of ivermectin designed for animals on a daily basis in 2012, after he was diagnosed with Lyme disease, according to a detailed account of his medical history he gave on a podcast last November. He said then that five months after first taking the drug, he quit all other treatments and believed ivermectin had “regenerated” his heart muscle.

During the pandemic, Ivermectin became hugely popular among anti-vaxxers, many of whom were taking and recommending the veterinary formulation of the drug, rather than the one designed for human use. While ivermectin for humans is used to treat serious illnesses like river blindness, it has repeatedly been shown to be an ineffective treatment for COVID-19.

And according to the Missouri Poison Center, ingesting large doses of ivermectin formulated for animals has a long list of side effects, including seizures, coma, lung issues, and heart problems. Veterinary ivermectin is not a cure or effective treatment for COVID, the FDA has repeatedly warned, and is highly concentrated because it is designed for large animals like horses and cows. “Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans,” the FDA cautions.

“Danny was fully convinced that his heart had regenerated after his incident with Lyme disease that almost ended in congestive heart failure,” the admins wrote, before claiming that “a family history of heart disease and chronic stress” were why his heart had ultimately become engorged. “All of his other organs were unremarkable,” the admins wrote. “And this was determined to be a death by unfortunate natural causes.”

The admins of Lemoi’s channel did not respond to VICE News’ questions about where they got their information about his death. Lemoi’s surviving family did not respond to VICE News' request for comment on the cause of his death.

But a review of Lemoi’s Telegram channels shows that many of his followers who are taking his dosage recommendations, or “protocols,” for veterinary ivermectin are experiencing numerous known side effects of taking the drug.

“I’m 4 months now and all hell’s breaking loose, all pain has hit my waist down with sciatic, shin splints, restless leg syndrome, tight sore calves & it feels like some pain in the bones,” a member wrote on Friday.

Lemoi explained away the negative side effects of taking veterinary ivermectin by describing them as “herxing,” a real term to describe an adverse response that occurs in people who take antibiotics as a treatment for Lyme disease.

“My wife has been taking ivermectin for 3 months,” a member wrote Friday. “She is being treated for autoimmune hepatitis, thyroid, and vertebrae issues. She has had some serious HERXING. Today she has a migraine, vomiting and severe stomach pain. Does anyone have any ideas how to help, and are these HERXING symptoms?”

Some members of the group are taking ivermectin not only as a treatment against COVID, but as a cure-all for almost every disease—from cancer and depression, to autism and ovarian cysts—believing that every disease is caused by a parasite that is removed from the body by ivermectin, just as animals are given the drug to treat parasitic worms like tapeworm.

Lemoi also formulated an ivermectin regimen for children, and numerous members of the group reported that they were using it. This week alone one member wrote that she had established another group for “parents of children on the spectrum, cerebral palsy, pans/panda, downs etc.,” who are using the Lemoi’s recommended children’s dosage.

When some members of the group blamed Lemoi’s death on ivermectin, they were criticized in the Telegram channel; their fellow group members claimed they were spreading misinformation.

​​“No one can convince me that he died because of ivermectin,” one member wrote this week. “He ultimately died because of our failed western medicine which only cares about profits and not the cure.”

Despite Lemoi’s death, administrators said this week the Telegram channel would live on, and the group is attracting new members who continue to take ivermectin despite suffering serious side effects.

“I am very new to this... I’ve been on Bimectin paste for 20 days,” one new member wrote on Friday morning, explaining that he too was suffering from Lyme disease. “I have severe chest pain. Costochondritis symptoms. Air hunger, internal tremors, brain fog, headaches on the back of my head, anxiety, depression, doom and gloominess.”

Oh...just remembering all the MAGA freaks on here that were foaming at the mouth over ivermectin and wondering why @staff never gave us a "report medical misinformation" option...

#us politics #news #vice news #2023 #anti vaxxers #fuck antivaxers #republicans #conservatives #ivermectin #ivermetin side effects #telegram #Dirt Road Discussions #Danny Lemoi #medical misinformation #coronavirus misinformation #misinformation #Missouri Poison Center #food and drug administration #Lyme disease #herxing #tweet #twitter #tumblr #@staff we need a covid misinformation report option #@staff

[spooniestrong]

“These immune-compromised patients are essentially variant factories,” said Dr. Michael Joyner, an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic and another study co-author. “And you do not want a bunch of people running around out there making weird variants.”

HOLD UP.

Did he just say immunocompromised people are the problem?!

Oh hell no... Hold my earrings.

I’m coming for you, Dr Michael Joyner…

——

Here’s Dr Joyner’s Mayo Clinic page:

#spooniestrong #spoonie #mayo clinic #medical misinformation #Covid #protect the immunocompromised #actually immunocompromised

[winglssdemon]

PSA:

Stop taking medical advice from places like tumblr, tik tok, facebook, Twitter, etc without actually looking into real medical research.

As a physically disabled person, I have a lot of reasons to dislike doctors but that doesn't change science and it REALLY doesn't change the fact that you should really not automatically believe everything you read on the internet.

#medical misinformation #like srs medical misinformation is getting rly rampant rly fast and idk why #im blocking where and when i can but like this is A LOT and ridiculous #anti haes #its relevant but not the only medical misinformation ive been seeing #like support and encouragement and possibly mentioning to someone that they think u might have x because of their exp with it #thats one thing #and even then you should still check with a doctor or doctors instead of just assuming a rando on the internet is right

[rapeculturerealities]

In Texas, state-funded crisis pregnancy centers gave medical misinformation to NBC News producers seeking counseling

Across the U.S., more than 2,500 crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) provide free services and counseling for women struggling with unplanned pregnancies. They outnumber abortion clinics 3 to 1 nationwide, and as some states shutter clinics after Roe’s reversal, that ratio will grow.

But when two NBC News producers visited state-funded CPCs in Texas to ask for counseling, counselors told them that abortions caused mental illness and implied abortions could also cause cancer and infertility.

The nation’s largest national obstetricians’ group, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says that’s medical misinformation.

The centers, which are often faith-based, frequently get funding from religious groups and individual donors, but many also depend partly on taxpayer dollars. CPCs have long been accused of providing what experts have called “misleading or false” information to discourage women from getting abortions, as NBC News witnessed firsthand after sending two producers to CPCs in Texas to request pregnancy counseling.

#CPCs #crisis pregnancy centers #Medical misinformation

[yessoupy]

Do not share medical advice unless you can link it to a trusted source.

#abortion #medical misinformation

[mother-shipper]

HI IM REALLY SORRY TO SEND YOU THIS ASK BUT!!! In this case, Tylenol has ACTUALLY been linked to an increased chance of ASD as well as Autism in MULTIPLE peer reviewed and in at least one case, a 20 year long study of potential risks in child development!!! Autism isn't just a genetic disorder, it's a disordered that is affected by what you're exposed to during fetal development and early childhood!! Is the lawsuit still stupid? Yeah. BUT PLEASE PLEASE DONT SPREAD MISINFORMATION ABOUT THE LINK NOT BEING TRUE!!! This is sadly another case of medications affects on child development and ppl who arent white cis men not being properly studied!!! It's especially shitty bc Tylenol is actually one of the most recommended medications for pregnant people!!!

First, ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder. You've listed the same condition twice but based on your comments on the post itself, I'm guessing you meant ADHD and Autism. I have both and so does my son so I'll thank you not to try and "educate" me on what exactly my own disorder/disability is. I'll also agree with your point that they are very much disabilities given the current structure of society and that the school system fails us continually. However, the suggestion that we need to be fixed or eradicated rather than better understood and supported is stomach turning in its ableism as well as the fledgling arguments of eugenics.

Second, you mean the peer reviewed studies deemed inconclusive? Therefore not establishing anything but people looking for something new to blame since vaccines and milk didn't pan out?

Third, the fact that Tylenol is so widely used is exactly why Tylenol causing autism is bullshit. It is one of if not the only otc pain medication that physicians agree is safe for use during pregnancy. That means nearly every pregnant person is using mostly if not exclusively Tylenol. If it was a causal factor, the numbers would be through the roof. Though I fully admit they don't reflect those like myself who were diagnosed later in life and the diagnostics need to better study and include afab and POC, the statistics for the current year show only 2.2% of children are diagnosed with autism. If it was caused by a medication that widely used, that number would be astronomical even with people falling through the cracks.

Correlation is not causation and this is fear mongering. I'm tired of mine and my child's existence being demonized and I don't want shit like this on my dash.

#actually autistic #autistic adult #autistic parent #medical misinformation

[odinsblog]

On The Trail With RFK Jr

Some good breakdowns on RFK Jr and his crackpot conspiracy theories

Anna Merlan [@annamerlan], author of "Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power," on the mistake the media have made in covering RFK Jr. (Listen)

How To Cover A Candidate Like RFK Jr

Claire Wardle [@cward1e], co-founder and co-director of the Information Futures Lab at the Brown School of Public Health, on the backlash to content moderation, and the impacts of these changes as candidates like RFK Jr., an anti-vaccine activist, enter the 2024 presidential race. (Listen)

Tech Platforms Are Rolling Back Their Misinformation Policies

Paul Offit [@DrPaulOffit], a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology and the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, on the science community's response to RFK Jr. over the years, and the dangers of elevating such conspiracies to the White House. (Listen)

The Troubling Wake of An Anti-Vaxx Campaign

#politics #rfkjr #antivaxxers #medical misinformation #medical disinformation #misinformation #disinformation #rfk jr #podcasts #robert f kennedy jr

[trckstergods]

i dont know anything about other countries advertising laws but i do know this: if you see someone shilling a product that can be sold in america making claims that the product will treat a medical condition (this is particularly important in regards to weight loss and health supplements) you can and SHOULD report that person to the FTC

The FTC will closely scrutinize the scientific support for such claims, particularly where the claim could lead consumers to forego other treatments that have been validated by scientific evidence, or to self-medicate for potentially serious conditions without medical supervision

this is very important and if you find yourself frustrated and angry by medical misinformation perpetuated by randos with no real qualifications i urge you to report these people.

the supplement industry is completely unregulated in the united states except for a select few rules from the federal trade commission that specifically have to do with advertising

#be careful out there #always get third party tested supplements AND check which third party they are using #the link leads to a pdf of rules and guidelines #medical misinformation #this is like #my number 1 problem with the internet right now

[liethatliar]

committing vehicular manslaughter? no, committing medical malpractice ✅ ✅💉💉🚒🚑🩺⚕️

#medical malpractice #medical maltreatment #medical intervention #medical misinformation #emo #emo kid #goth #medicine #medication #gothic #emo scene #scene #twitter #lgbtqa