NEW: Cancer Pseudoscience and the Cultural Moment I wrote about how cancer quackery often capitalizes on its era of origin's social tensions. In our current moment, a Canadian former doctor and prolific COVID disinfo promotor is the reason ivermectin has become an ever-expanding online scam.

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All of this exactly. I would only add that the individualization and privatization of public health has also reversed the direction of duty between the body and the state. Building on eugenicist ideas, the individual has a duty to to the state build a strong and economically powerful "well" body.

Ty! I discuss this a lot in my upcoming book!

Me: *any question at all about the kid's medical history or symptoms in the past 48 hrs* This guy: Idk. My wife/GF/mom/ex knows all that stuff. Does it matter? Just give me a Rx for this cough.

My theory about RFK Jr. is that this is individualism taken to its extreme: don't regulate food, don't mandate vaccines. If you get sick, you should've done your own research. Your health is your own responsibility, even when corps. are allowed to put you at risk. The privatization of public health.

All of this exactly. I would only add that the individualization and privatization of public health has also reversed the direction of duty between the body and the state. Building on eugenicist ideas, the individual has a duty to to the state build a strong and economically powerful "well" body.

In case it wasn't immediately obvious, every time someone in this group asks for info, the comments fill up with pseudoscientific bullshit plus ads from grifters (or their bots).

I think ppl don't realize how often FB groups radicalize those who are anti-medicine curious. This kind of thing has been going on for years and COVID was just an accelerant.

The fact that the focus continues to be on Avi Lewis and we are - I guess - memory holing Dean Allison's anti-vax COVID hearings is seriously making me lose my mind.

Just fucking incredible. How about podcasts that endanger Jewish Canadians by platforming COVID conspiracies?

Ah yes, make sure to mention the Belleville synagogue shooting without addressing how you platformed COVID conspiracism the same week as the attack. It remains true that you are a clown.

They can't get real health care workers to do it. Placing an IV is not that complicated for an adequately trained and skilled person.

The fighting antisemitism project works best on the Nazi trillionaire's website obvi.

This is why patients lie about stuff like that - they know how it biases the health care team against them, even when (as in this case) the drug use was not a factor at all and was not even remotely exceptional.

Exactly. Her symptoms were minimized and dismissed throughout until she literally went into cardiac arrest. So tragic but at the same time so fucking typical.