I vaguely understood the climate change stuff, as the profit motive from fossil fuel industries was just so strong. The antivax stuff, I didn’t see coming, and it kind of broke me. We’re just throwing away an unalloyed good because people are bored
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Also a huge profit motive in the unregulated wellness industry. My instagram feed is awash with influencers hawking "natural" remedies.
jun 25, 2025, 12:29 am • 7 0 • view
I could make you an elderberry syrup for a cough, but imma still tell you to go to the doctor if you're wheezing, because that's probably bronchitis and you maybe need an antibiotic, not folk remedies from the 1600s, and I am barely a folk healer, let alone a physician.
jun 25, 2025, 12:39 am • 2 0 • view
Follow.
jun 25, 2025, 12:26 am • 3 0 • view
It's resentment of the authority of science and the cadre of people who engage in science.
jun 25, 2025, 12:23 am • 20 1 • view
Yeah - my feeling is it’s a deep well, coming to the surface, of a desire for traditional cultural assumptions to “trump” enlightenment epistemologies of reason/evidence. It can’t - especially in the modern world, so they’ve adopted a post-truth fascism to get their way by force.
jun 25, 2025, 12:32 am • 4 0 • view