The Trump administration's focus on deregulation and anti-establishment rhetoric makes it an ideal ecosystem for wellness pseudoscience to become mainstream. This isn't just a threat to federal safeguards, it's a direct assault on science-based medicine. 11/
It's not a coincidence that they all push nutrition supplements. A big part of it is the money, sure, but more importantly: pseudoscience scams are honeypots for rubes, aka voters they can easily manipulate. Moreover, "buy my thing" is a gateway to grooming. Do what I say. Trust only me. CULT 101.
Oh I hope not. There’s way too much as it is! There’s far too much “wellness” and not enough health in this country. We used to lead in sciences! Why does all this nonsense keep spreading?
This is an exercise in lying to the political base. Simple, effective, PROPAGANDA. The F-Scale high scorers are easy targets. #RealityDefeated #LiarsProfit www.anesi.com/fscale.htm
These people are institutionalizing wellness culture and medical conspiracism, eroding public trust in health agencies, dismantling vaccination programs, and reversing decades of progress in food and drug safety. Anyone else seeing what is going on? 12/
Everything is a grift for them and so everyone is a mark. Their “values” are entirely destructive of human civilisation. The challenge for the rest of us is to contain this death spiral.
None of it makes sense unless you realize Putin is calling the shots.
Or, alternatively, our govt is being run by eugenicists & extremists that would prefer if a whole lot of us just died so they can rebuild our society into a feudal state.
This isn't just bad policy, it's a green light for pseudoscience to dictate public health, divert research funding, and strip away federal oversight. The very outcomes we are seeing, right now. This is the undoing of decades of public health progress, and all of us are in harm's way. 13/
It's always about the grift, this whole administration, if it doesn't make sense, just think about who might be able to twist this into making money and it will sink in.
Healthcare in America needs reform -- but handing the wheel to wellness profiteers isn't the answer. Real reform means strengthening public health systems, addressing systemic inequities, and holding industries accountable to rigorous scientific standards. 14/
And it is working on folks like me, an older, disabled cold war vet whose health care is the VA. My primary is so overworked at the VA that he never recognizes me which means he is way of the 125 easily recognizable faces biological ceiling, he has to sopend 25-30 minutes reviewing my case on
software that is constantly updated but never really improved. The same is true of our local ER, too understaffed, too many patients and too few doctors and especially nurses. Almost enough to make you question your oath huh Doc? I mean how can a Dr do no harm in such an environ?
You can't, which puts you at medicolegal risk, especially in the US I imagine. But you can try!
I can't what, die in plain sight? Or stream it, because I do not have to stream it, any indie news group could, as news, like a hunger strike.
Ok -you've lost me there?
I am analog as hell, how do I look at an entire thread? My TBI gets in my way and I think I am responding to one thread, but may be responding to another, and I can never seem to find a way to open up and see the entire thread!
I don't know how to do that either :-)
We have a backward attitude toward health in the US today, personal responsibility is not enough we need a public policy to help people achieve better health👍
We are watching our flawed system be traded in for an objectively dangerous one— one that prioritizes profit over safety, conspiracy over evidence, and pseudoscience over public health. Read more: news.immunologic.org/p/the-trump-...
I am reading @naomiaklein.bsky.social 's "Doppelganger." She makes a compelling case that a lot of genuine issues with healthcare/Big Pharma have been sucked into a "mirror world" of pseudoscience and conspiracy over evidence. I have not yet gotten to her solution, but I'll keep reading.
Several things here, They move public Healthcare to private. Lab research is designed for the pill rather than cure, they want the money. Big money owns politicians and now they do what they tell them. Once you fall for corruption they have it on you and you can't go back.
This is how it only got so much worst, on all fronts, until we got to this point in time..
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Could we call this America’s Dark Age? It sure feels like it
It’s going to cost a fortune to reverse this vandalism, assuming there’s a time in the future when the American people will want to.
I think the people who are willfully ignorant have won the day and decades will pass before a new Enlightenment takes a hold.
Except - those with the $$ will seek out proper medical care, and those without will struggle, suffer and die. A very ruzian social strategy.
Or century
I think about 1 decade. Remember that real analytical tools are being developed at the same time. They are less vulnerable to social manipulation.
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Seems obvious at this point that Russia’s attack on the US is to install malleable dictators, gut social service & science depts., and isolate it economically with bad tariffs to turn a former 1st-wrld. powerhouse into a 3rd-wrld. peasant slave nation.
Is the CDC exclusively in DC (actually MD I think) or are there offices elsewhere? I'm just wondering/hoping that some blue state governors can try to step in to hire some fired Fed workers, as we've heard Moore & Shapiro have done previously.
Interesting that one of the first areas that experienced a huge wave of Russian disinformation (a decade ago) was the Wellness Industry. Think when anti-vax idiots started to pop up
Cruelty *IS* the point, A L, PhD. He has held office what, 73 days now? And there has been this drip-drip-drip of threats and destruction every. single. day. Unless he was out cheat- er, golfing. 🧢
i can't wait for some dude to come in here and say 'Don't worry, EOs are powerless, this is all a panic!'
This is what #Krasnov aka Agent Orange 🍊 has been asked to do: to destroy the US from within, just as Krutchev has announced it. So Self Destruction, yes, but don’t think it is a misleaded policy. It is intentional and it is the goal
Thank you for the thread! Please don't use substack. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/j...
Thank you Benja. Are there other platforms? I am on substack as well, and I should probably switch.
Thank you for the feedback. As I'm not a creator on substack (I was only consuming) I'm not the expert. I found several articles with alternatives but I don't know their stance on human rights/ethics: www.mightynetworks.com/resources/su...
Got it, thank you!
Wow. Didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing.
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It’s gonna take just one more global pandemic and Americans will panic. We all know It’s coming and that is what nobody wants to even think about. Perish at your own risk.
"Perish at your own risk?" I don't understand that one.
For those who refuse to believe in science-you will be on your own to navigate the next pandemic because Trump has slammed the doors closed on research and development of future vaccines.
So, maybe ignore science at your own risk, 'cuz it's not going to ignore you?
The contagious disease won’t ignore you…you will be just another person- the disease takes down. Understanding the fundamentals of science is key-the basics we already know and ignoring the facts that highly contagious diseases and infections are opportunistic is the main takeaway.
Honestly, I don’t know the end game here. This administration wants more Americans broke, homeless, jobless, uneducated, sick or dead.
This 👏
Authoritarianism seeks to control people. Is it not easier to control an uneducated, sick public… who worry more about day to day… than what the governments doing? When people are just trying to survive?
Bleak as hell. 😓
Does an educated public who reads science and questions authority benefit this Administration? Do critically thinking individuals who can decipher facts from propaganda benefit this administration?
Yep. It’s a walk in the park to control the downtrodden- they have no hopes nor dreams. That’s the main goal here.
They don't care about people, they only care about their own money. Everything else is just noise
Thank you for this. I follow everything that you write. If you weren’t sharing this information I don’t know how likely I would be to come to know all this. I will take a moment to advocate us eventually implementing the sort of policies that have worked in Singapore. bsky.app/profile/will...
O.k., if a pandemic breaks out and we're doing the Medieval thing these days, I say we burn Republicans at the stake to make the pandemic stop.
bsky.app/profile/real...
I say we give everyone who wants ivermectin as much as they want. Self limiting problem.
We hear and see this!! We have to push back!!
