#altmed

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Because pseudosciences are not based on reason or evidence, they are effectively a cesspool for nonsense and inconsistencies.

Here are some of the most hilarious contradictions, including promoting hidden cancer cure conspiracy theories, while at the same time opposing vaccines that can prevent some forms of cancer.

Six Hilarious Pseudoscience Contradictions

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It feels like the line between "alternative medicine scams" and legit medical info is crumbling apart and it scares the hell out of me.

I was on youtube looking up some stuff for my friend, to see what unreliable stuff they might have to watch out for, and there are a lot of scams being pushed by people who are using academic-sounding terminology and appear to the uneducated outsider (me) to actually have an understanding of the science. A lot of these people either are medical doctors or are posing as medical doctors using a sketchy bullshit degree from some obscure illegitimate institution.

What's more, there's a lot of content creators enabling this by building their channels around vague, essentially benign claims that are too unspecific to be labeled misinformation, like "Avoiding these foods could help with this condition!"

Like yeah, in the broadest sense, maybe eating less "refined sugars" could make you feel better, but once you watch this video, the algorithm immediately starts pushing other videos with similar titles making similar claims, except those claims are "Refined sugars cause disabilities and cancer," and that will bring you to "Sugar is a drug more addictive than cocaine and you can detox by eating only raw beef and butter."

I got recommended a Jordan Peterson video within 3 clicks of simply putting the name of a chronic illness into youtube search.

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I get on instagram pretty much exclusively to gawk at misinformation from alternative medicine scammers

antivax is banned in most social media sites, this has accomplished worse than nothing because any random buttass person can still rant about ✨✨unnatural toxins✨✨ in every modern medicine except vaccines and call themselves a "naturopathic holistic healing doctor," so.

Instead a large amount of the public suspicious that vaccines poison you, now we have a large amount of the public thinking it goes without saying that vaccines poison you

Some scammers have mostly "generalist" scam material, some specialize and prey upon one or more of common dismissed or misdiagnosed chronic illnesses

One of these is lyme disease and I swear to god

y'all will NEVER fucking guess what the next slide after this one says

okay

are you prepared

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Coronavirus: WHO sets rules for testing African herbal remedies

Sound science "will be the sole basis" for safe and effective therapies to be adopted, the WHO says.

Ah yes, traditional medicine, that evidence-based treatment that we stopped using out of progressive hubris because we found getting sucked on by leeches or drinking virgin blood doesn’t cure you.

So a blackpill as of late is the discovery of the World Health Organization’s craven embrace of postmodernism. This is an ostensibly scientific organization poisoned by the postmodern ideology that believes everyone's ideas of medicine are equally valid.

Traditional medicine, transtrender queer theory, the Food Pyramid designed by the Dept of Agriculture to sell more grain and keep people eating peasant food in the 21st century, non-surgical masks being extremely effective at spreading the disease, reprimands of the anti-lockdown protests then a month later guidelines for the George Floyd protests...

Why not this too, when you’ve destroyed all your founding principles? Drinking some local herbs to cure a global pandemic for which there won’t be a vaccine anytime soon? That’s your truth. Well, if it fucking works, why isn’t it our truth? If these herbs successfully treat (read: cure) COVID, this would make Africa rich with how many world governments would demand these herbs.

Well, if China can lobby to make TCM legit in WHO guidelines, that sets a precedent, doesn’t it? Now everyone can. Just come in with a bunch of lobbying power and they'll rubberstamp you right up.

Honk honk

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