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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Mar 2020

      1. So I have some thoughts on Austrian medicine, Austrian economics, therapeutic nihilism, medical metaphors in economics, the two Ludwigs (Wittgenstein, von Mises), and a new push on the right for a social darwinist "solution" to coronavirus (ie let the disease spread quickly)

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Mar 2020

      2. There flourished in Vienna circa 1850-1870, a school of medicine that was deeply critical of the efficacy of drugs (not without justice: quack remedies were commonplace). Historians call it therapeutic nihilism: idea its better to let diseases run their course than to cure

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Mar 2020

          3. As William Johnson notes in The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 (1972), therapeutic nihilism had a long afterlife even past 1870s in the pessimism of many Austrian thinkers, ranging from Freud to Wittgensteinpic.twitter.com/OKez8gve7H

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Mar 2020

          4. Wittgenstein's famous aphorism "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." is, if think about it, an appealing distillation of therapeutic nihilism. A less appealing form is in Austrian economics, where attempts to fight economic depressions are worse than disease

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Mar 2020

          5. Economics leans heavily on metaphors from medicine & psychology (the "cure" for a "depression"). The aversion of a von Mises or Hayek to Keynesianism parallels the hostility of therapeutic nihilists to medical intervention.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Mar 2020

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          6. I think the history of therapeutic nihilism is now salient because a rising chorus of voices on the right are now calling for a similar response to coronavirus: just let it spread, trying to stop it will cause more damage, and it'll run its course.https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1241513763045597194 …

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          Fox “news” and “opinion” side folks are credulously sharing a tech guy’s Medium post theorizing that the dangers of coronavirus are overstated and schools and businesses should be reopened. pic.twitter.com/cbnvIjLY3u
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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Mar 2020

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          7. A recent Wall Street Journal editorial also seemed to echo this line of thought. As the pandemic continues and the economy crashes, expect to hear arguments for therapeutic nihilism (in every sense). https://twitter.com/zeithistoriker/status/1240848074462781446 …

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        1. L. Vicente‏ @LeoV_68 21 Mar 2020
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          Good stopping point

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        1. Thingsneedtochange‏ @TimBurk89339590 21 Mar 2020
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          Homeopathy, as in giving people basically a harmless placebo, also became popular due to conventional medicine killing and harming so many people.

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        1.  💉 😷No 🏳️‍🌈Chill 🇵🇷Hockey 🍞 💐 🛫‏ @no_chill_hockey 21 Mar 2020
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          This feels like an appropriate metaphor in politics right now.

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