It’s a combination of germ theory denial coupled with victim blaming in which illness is almost entirely the fault of the person who becomes ill. 2/2
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Jesus! The universe makes no mistakes? Things happen as they're supposed to?pic.twitter.com/IxFNx0wXiV
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Sometimes they do the opposite, like my patient whose “naturopath” charged him $700 for a proprietary “cleanse formula” to drink for weight loss — while also telling him it wouldn’t work unless he also changed his diet, exercised, and got more sleep!
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Placebo Theater - the foundational bedrock of naturopathy and homeopathy.
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When is Twitter going to give us a way to report anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-science misinformation?
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Seriously. I have no idea how to do this
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"Wellness" is often a shorthand for moralizing about health and personal choices.https://twitter.com/DocMCohen/status/1359954348432834561?s=19 …
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Yes and worse. “Wellness” is often a shorthand for “I’m superior because I’m young & fit” a kind of dangerous, supremacist ideology.
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Even reading history debunks this. Millennia of ‘clean, organic’ eating with no ‘environmental toxins’, with the lower classes doing massive physical work (exercise) day in, day out.... yet, 1/3 of Europe died in bubonic plague?
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And the majority of the rest died before 50....
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