#pseudomedicine

[cryptotheism]

Tell us about the wellness to fash pipeline tho

Here's a recent piece from the guardian on wellness communities and Qanon, so don't take my word for it.

"Wellness" is not just alternative medicine, it is essentially a theory of the body which posits if something makes you feel better, you are better in some meaningful way. I would argue it one of the most commonly held nonreligious magical beliefs in the modern world.

Wellness as a concept has its genesis in the 1950s with "workplace wellness" programs, a sort of budget alternative to offering employee healthcare benefits. This was an era soaked in itinerant business preachers offering classes on things like "hypnosis at a management level" and "yoga to improve leadership abilities". I am exaggerating for effect, but not by much.

The capitalist medical system regularly abandons people. We've all heard stories of profit driven pharmaceudical companies holding the ill hostage for extreme markup on life-saving medicines. People have real, legitimate, reasons to mistrust medical professionals.

Let's say you have chronic pain, and everything your doctor offers you is either ineffective, expensive, or addictive. You are desperate for literally any release, so you start looking into other solutions. You will find an OCEAN of snake-oil salesmen willing to sell you "the secrets doctors don't want you to know."

What is frustrating, is that pain is actually partially psychological. Some wellness techniques may have an actual, medical, benefit on some patients. The worst thing a conspiracy theorist can have is a point. So now you actually do kinda feel better, and you have a sense of loyalty to the grifter selling you 300$ Sumerian Cock Oil Pills. These people are the core of the wellness industry. They are the examples that everyone else points to and says "Well it worked for them!"

Reactionary thought blooms in environments like this. If the medical industry can't be trusted, what else can't be trusted? At any given time, you are two clicks away from "vaccines cause autism." Three clicks away from "Cavemen were 15 feet tall because they only ate meat." And four clicks away from "The medical industry is controlled by The Jews to drain our wallets and keep us sick." Echoes of Nazi attitudes towards German-Jewish doctors are a common backbeat.

Wellness itself is relatively harmless, (compared to the things it is adjacent to) but it acts as a sort of idealogical airport that exposes the curious to a deluge of potentially radicalizing communities. The longer you spend in communities like this, the higher the chance you'll come across something that meshes perfectly with your own biases.

If y'all wanna learn more about wellness and pseudomedicine grifters, I highly recommend the podcast Maintenance Phase.

#antisemitism #conspiracy #pseudomedicine

[creature-wizard]

The thing about the statement "X woo therapy is based in science, actually!" is that it's not usually wrong, but it also overlooks the part where the woo uses the scientifically demonstrated thing as a springboard to launch itself into sheer goofiness. Like using the fact that different colors have been scientifically demonstrated to have an effect on your mood (and therefore, can somewhat improve your mental health and subsequently your physical health) to go and claim that the right color of light can cure cancer and diabetes and literally every ailment.

Same goes for the double slit experiment; the experiment showed that putting a monitoring device on the photons interfered in such a way that it changed the behavior of the photons. The woo crowd used that as a springboard to launch into the total nonsense of "your perception literally physically alters the world around you!" Like no Jan the presence of a monitoring device making photons act different doesn't mean we can all just believe our way out of chronic pain.

#science #pseudoscience #quackery #quack medicine #pseudomedicine #medicine #woo

[theexodvs]

Not one of Alfred Kinsey's studies could withstand anywhere close to the amount of scrutiny that has been applied to Andrew Wakefield's 1998 study without being retracted.

#alfred kinsey #Andrew Wakefield #Quackery #quacks #pseudomedicine #Pseudoscience #This is not a whatabouism #I categorically deny a link between autism and vaccines and have publicly denied such a link *on this website* several times #But if Wakefield is going to be laughed out of academia Kinsey should be as well

[hylasregilla]

The people on tiktok heralding the benefits of eating borax HAVE to be trolling. There is no way they came up with that in good faith. I refuse to believe

#at least most of these dangerous health trends have a foot in healthfood culture #like with that jilly juice shit #fermentation‚ greens and himalayan salt were already considered healthy and the theory of “detoxification” was well established #so it's not totally illogical that someone could have come up with it y'know? #tiktok #pseudoscience #pseudomedicine

[leo-fie]

How the Alt-Right's Fake-Estrogen Scam Backfired Spectacularly | Caelan Conrad

A good rundown of the nazi-estrogen-scam that happened on the bird side. Also a very good creator.

#youtube #breadtube #caelan conrad #estrogen #trans #trans rights #scam #nazis #pseudomedicine #snake oil

[pizzaback]

wake up a twitter rando discovered that vaccines cause morgellons

#op #pseudoscience #pseudomedicine #other blue hell #i think that is a dessicated chicken breast

[bookshelfdreams]

Habe letztens deinen Post über Esoterik und Alternativmedizin gesehen und deinen Tag dazu und möchte einmal Kudos hier lassen und ein bisschen anekdotische "Evidenz" teilen: Nicht lange nach meiner Tetanus-Auffrischungsimpfung habe ich mich - erstmalig - in eine Frau verliebt. Kann das Zufall sein oder hat eine Medizin-Pharma-Verschwörung mich bi gemacht? Jedenfalls 10/10, gute Erfahrung, gerne wieder.

Mittlerweile hinreichend wissenschaftlich erwiesen, Impfungen machen alles einfach 1000x besser. Schutz vor schweren Krankheiten, Lebensverlängerung, queere Selbsterkenntnis. Gut für dich, ich hoffe mit deiner Liebsten läuft alles so, wie du dir das wünschst <3

#anonymaus #message #pseudomedicine

[jackalgirl]

If you're interested in authoritarian control & pseudoscientific pablum, you might be interested in a video about "TeaMi" and its deep entanglement with $cientology.

TL Yarn Crafts nooooooooooo : (

#YouTube #Scams #detox scam #undue influence #pseudomedicine #EmptyMug

[crplpunkklavier]

had a dream that i got covid and went to the hospital for a "covidectomy", a surgery i recovered from in a room with like 20 other people because everyone was getting covidectomies, covid being an organ they found within the human body, and if you remove it nobody can get covid anymore. like an appendectomy but with covid. and my immediate first thought upon waking up was that if i were a different sort of person i would now make "this came to me in a dream so i will start peddling essential oils that shall help people flush out their covid organs" my new hill to die on

#genuinely very interesting to me what makes people swear on pseudomedicine #and who believes in it and who doesn't #anyway. very funny dream. also met a hot person in it and then was disappointed to find they weren't actually masc #ain't that just the way

[b4kuch1n]

good luck w the testing and a happy early new year!!

thank you it's already happened when this was sent but we all did get one free point for the listening section bc the audio fucked up and we didn't get to hear the part with the last question's answer. but I will now think this is luck borrowed from the future when this ask was sent

#bakuspeech #ask #I tweeted a storm inbetween the written competencies (morning) and the speaking test (afternoon) lmao #but its on my wretched personal acc so it's for me. it's just for me #I dressed. and this is not me being unkind to myself. like a mister bean character to that test. like I got a woolen suit jacket on #with the dress shoes of mismatched laces. AND Ive been bald recently #honest to gods can Not tell how well I did in the written tests. like I finished all of them with at least ten minutes to spare #but it's because they kept putting a giant timer on the projector screen and it scared me so bad. delf trauma #the content of the test itself I straight up. dont know if its any good #the thing with me. that u can probably tell by idk looking at me and hearing me talk and stuff. is that I speak english but I am #VERY bad at tests #which makes any formalized english testing for me extremely fucking funny #and like it's supposed to be in the same structure as an ielts set of questions and apparently that means #they kept asking me to confirm or deny that the author of the text agrees with the statements they got in the questions #and I was sitting there like okay you made me read about weird phrenology shit and then you ask me this?? like are we asking #textual or contextual or. how deep into the rhetorics are we talking here. cause two of these three authors are certified weirdos #(yes the reading segment had three texts. one was about physiognomy and how there was definitely a grain of truth in there #one was about tea - this is the inconspicuous one - and the last one was about the potentials of toxinology #with a general vibe of pseudomedicine zeal to its writing. it's probs from a family magazine or something) #so straight up yeah I can defend my quiz answers to a judge but that does Not mean it's gonna be the one on the answer sheet yknow #kinda the same with the writing segment. where like they gave me an extremely easy to expand on subject and then a piece of paper #the length of a receipt. and that just. I could NOT parse the expectation of that setup #like I saw that and was like. so do you want me to do it badly? or do it so excellently I deliver all I think in like 100 words or less? #cause I'm capable of one of those things and the distinction is important here #and like. yes I know it's a language aptitude test. they're looking to know if I speak english #and I Have done something like this before multiple times just with a different language. but that was. idk I have never had a ladder here #I know I speak the language. YOU can probably tell I speak the language. would this test's result reflect that? I don't know! #it's a baffling experience. I'm still thinking about it the day after. tldr it's really not about the english for me it's about the testing #it's so. it's reflected so clear in the listening test where I missed an entire question (other than the one they gave us for free) bc #my brain just noped out of my body for three seconds and when I yanked it back the tape's already moved on

[creature-wizard]

Remember when New Agers said that we were going to have quantum healing beds ("med beds") that would fix all of our health problems by now? Because I sure do. These things were supposed to be fully rolled out and implemented by now and everybody was supposed to have free access to them.

That's New Age predictions for you, though. The big changes are always just on the horizon, but they never manifest. They just keep hovering on a little further ahead, like a glittering mirage in a hot desert. Some folks catch on and turn away to find something real, but others keep following the mirage until they die.

#new agers #new age #med beds #pseudoscience #pseudomedicine #quantum woo #alternative healing #quantum healing #failed predictions #failed prophecies

[theexodvs]

Illness is a real thing. Illness can affect any part of anyone's body at any time. Illness can be, and often is, inborn. Illness can be, and often is, lifelong. Pursuing healthy lifestyles can lessen, but never eliminate, the possibility of illness, including permanent illness. The brain, being as much a part of the body as the foot or the spleen, can also suffer illness, in this case a mental illness.

The neurodiversity movement generally denies the existence of mental illness. Its adherents is uncomfortable with the fact that there are things that are expected of most people that the mentally ill are unable to perform, cradle to grave. Therefore, it retreats in medical denialism, calling mental illnesses "neurotypes."

The Word of Faith movement does not deny illness, but instead says that if someone lives in a certain way or says certain things, that they can be healed of various ailments. This includes dismemberment, chromosomal disorders, and, in extreme cases, death. Their attempts at ridding the world of illness has proven fruitless

The neurodiversity and Word of Faith movements are two cultic sides of the same denialist, escapist coin. Illness is a fact of life, and a fact of some people's entire lives. Sometimes it can be healed, and sometimes it cannot. Denying its existence does not improve anyone's life, and neither do lies about the ability to miraculously cure it. What the ill, including the mentally ill, need is compassion and assistance.

#mentall illness #neurodiversity #neurodiversity movement #word of faith #prosperity gospel #cult #cults #escapism #escapist #denialism #pseudomedicine

[bloggedanon]

saw ur tags in the transphobic estrogen scam psa. FDA only needs to be involved if the product claims to be safe and ‘FDA-approved’ and requires legal stuff to be done first. otherwise they can just slap a ‘this is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure disease or ailments’ on the label and call it a day. supplement market is a farce and companies are regularly called out for advertising things that they don’t actually do

Daaang, makes sense 💀

Thanks anon!

#the wild west of pseudomedicine 🤡 #I'd say “there ought to be a law” but god knows that if they don't even wanna list all the ingredients in FDA-monitored food products #then there's no way anything like this would get any blanket legislation about it huh #(referencing whenever ingredients just list 'spices' as an ingredient) #(or similar shenaniganry)

[sukimas]

i think basically the #1 problem with pseudomedicine/chemophobe guys is not that they don't recognize chemicals (oftentimes they do quite well) but that they don't understand concentration factors.

for basically anything barring heavy metals, small doses are perfectly fine (and depending on how small, good) for you. but increase the dose and you can get hell.

fluoride actually is bad for you at any noticeable concentration. it's not just fluorine! this is not a Na+Cl->NaCl situation entirely. fluoride salts are bone hurting juices (and nervous system organ damagers, too.) but at 3+ w/v%, not at 0.01-0.02% like in mouthwash or in fluoridated water. at those low concentrations, it gets broken down long before it gets to your bones or nerves, and just makes the enamel of your teeth stronger.

but most people can't really tell the difference between one low concentration and another, or they don't really understand a low concentration at all. that's why you get people going "lmao" at glacial acetic acid safety data sheets, despite the fact that GAA will fuck you up- because they're used to 5%, which is vinegar. it's hard to imagine something having such different effects at low/high concentrations unless you DO a lot of chemistry yourself!

your gas lines are safer with ppb concentrations of methyl mercaptan in them than if they didn't have any in them at all, despite the fact that MeSH is pretty damn deadly.

[normal-horoscopes]

ong CT speaking of snake oil salesmen, I accidentally ended up in an apointment with a Quack yesterday, and he tried to sell me frequency water with a little bit of arsenic in it to fix my migranes. Couldn't get a straight answer out of him, had to look up all the pieces when I got home and put it together then. Soooooo weird, can't believe it actually happened to me, in the 21st century

Oh no pseudomedicine never went away, the snake oil salesmen had to get clever.

[pro-birth]

Happy Women’s Health and Fitness Day! A friendly reminder that:

Abortion is child-killing pseudomedicine that is not necessary or even safe for addressing a majority of obstetric emergencies. ❤️

At the mass introduction of penicillin and improved sterile techniques, few women died from “back ally” abortions before RVW. 🥰

Maternal death is largely due to obstetric violence/abuse, systemic racism/sexism, lack of support for midwifery autonomy and access, and other societal issues that are not solved by abortion. 😍

Female athletes regularly report being pressured to abort for the sake of their scholarships and careers. 😘

You don’t have to be pro-life to respond to and change the systemic issues that affect women and children, but you SHOULD acknowledge that abortion can worsen or cause these problems. 😊

Be sure to check out my tags such as #birth justice, #maternal mortality, #women’s health, and others to learn more! 💖

#ranting #birth justice #sexism #racism #pregnancy discrimination