Rich men 🤝 dying from treatable cancer because they refuse conventional medicine in favor of pseudoscientific bunk
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@mushroom_soup He was vaccine truster before. Also cancer affects your brain, in my experience a lot of people prefer to give up, especially old ones.
@Marakus So basically what you're saying is taking MAGA health advice gives you the cognitive equivalent of having a brain riddled with cancer
@Marakus Anti medicalism on the right has gotten out of hand, just yesterday I saw someone on Twitter say that eating beef tallow was an appropriate substitute for taking literal antibiotics
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@Marakus His reasoning behind antibiotics being 'bad' was because he 'always felt bad after taking them' YEAH BECAUSE YOU TAKE THEM WHEN YOUR BODY IS FIGHTING OFF AN INFECTION, THAT GENERALLY IS NOT A PROCESS THAT FEELS GOOD
@Marakus Another person was like "well what did people do before antibiotics then huh?" PEOPLE DIED. PEOPLE DIED ALL THE TIME FROM INFECTIONS, WE HAD WHOLE PLAGUES OVER IT. SOMEONE WOULD GET A CUT ON THEIR FOOT AND THEN A WEEK LATER DIE FROM SEPSIS THIS WAS A COMMON THING
@mushroom_soup A lot of people simply cant afford medicine, and it spawns a lot of "alternative medicine" scams. It happened in late ussr/post ussr. A lot of fucking wizards and miracle doctors selling snake oil, cure by fucking magical mail, energized via tv water. When proper medicine loses trustworthiness status, and becomes unaffordable, scammers become unreasonably popular.
Its fucking miserable to explain to adults that magic is not real.
Its fucking miserable to explain to adults that magic is not real.
@Marakus @mushroom_soup That's why you go to arxiv and read clinical trials for active ingredients. It's a hurdle to be overcome, but can be done.