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Sep 28, 2021

forget schools burn hospitals to the ground jesus

Sep 28, 2021

"wEsTeRn MeDiCiNe" you know what medicine everybody needs? fucking sleep this is the most insane shit

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Sep 28, 2021

how is this even fucking real pbs.org/newshour/healt

did you know that in the early 1900s hospitals used to separate babies from their parents immediately after birth and not held then they started dying and nobody knew why until someone suggested they might be dying of loneliness aaronsw.com/weblog/hospita

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12:11 AM · Sep 29, 2021Twitter Web App

western medicine had to DO SCIENCE in order to come to the tentative conclusion that PERHAPS IT IS OF BENEFIT TO NEWBORN BABIES TO BE TAKEN CARE OF BY THEIR MOTHERS and it took DECADES for anyone to do actually DO ANYTHING WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE

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good thing we're not making any mistakes this big in the way we treat children (or adults) anymore huh. that era of history is probably over by now eh?

“medical nihilism”, nice

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· Sep 29, 2021

MEDICAL NIHILISM THREAD: Been meaning to talk about this since I read it a year or two ago, and listened to some podcasts w the author. I’m not gonna re-read it or re-listen; I’m going completely off of memory. I will leave out most stuff except for what stuck w me. twitter.com/the_wilderless…

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This is related to why normies get agitated at 'rationalist types' as a broader phenomenon.

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Man wait until you read the history of breastfeeding Doctors deserve none of their reputation

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THEY DID SURGERY ON BABIES WIHOUT USING ANESTHESIA BECAUSE THEY ASSUMED THEY DIDNT FEEL PAIN. And they only started using it after one mom found out and raised hell about it. *IN 1985*

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me whenever someone suggests being "studiescucked" isnt a thing:

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One thing medical research is horribly bad at is determining there null hypothesis

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This makes me sick. Course the fight over kangaroo care in NICUs lasted years too long

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Wisdom accumulated over millennia about our basic social needs as humans is embedded in traditional religions + cultures. Since those are all now Bad and Reactionary, having been replaced by The Science™️, we have to autistically rediscover things that were once fucking obvious

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science is very useful if you are willing to fail at stuff over and over and over and over and over rigorously until something works. Wisdom might be better for life, sure it hasn't tried everything but you can go look at individuals results throughout history.

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