Viewers beware. Basically it’s whoever can bully enough to spread whatever propaganda with enough money and power.
Tag: health misinformation
I almost can’t believe quack medbeds are still a thing but it’s part of a bigger narrative.
The medbed thing is tied to the “quantum” craze & UFOs as climate contrarianism conspiracy theories about alien technology that will soon provide limitless energy that will solve climate change.
Of course messaging from leadership is a central factor in public health.
Anyone telling anyone that people refused covid mitigations because of personal choice based on rational rejection of vaccines, testing, masks, and remote work, is either lying or themselves a fool.
Bonkers quack anti-vax conspiracy social media research pseudoscience stuff floated as legislation.
Politics controls governance. Governance influences every aspect of life, including healthcare. And the crackpot opposition is crowding out the legitimate reasonable experts enough to get bills introduced that are poo circus nonsense.
The authoritarian eugenics plans of tech moguls and the religious far right.
The far right may seem to be, and in many ways is, made up of a lot of different factions, but some of them have similar goals of living in their own segregated network states based on eugenics.
The Trump administration is cutting off funding for health departments across the US by falsely claiming there’s no covid anymore.
We all know that’s what’s going on, even if people don’t attribute it directly to covid, it’s a known cause of short staffing and school absenteeism.
New FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino never stopped promoting anti-vax nonsense for political attention.
Conservatives have admitted to running ad campaigns to convince liberals to be anti-mask, so I don’t doubt there’s been target marketing of anti-vax aimed at democrats.
Bizarre RFKJR confirmation hearing.
RFKJr is a terrible anti-vaxxer. But there are so many other problems as well with him taking over the entirety of the federal healthcare in the US. The threat can’t be overstated.
FBI hopeful Kash Patel promoted misinfo fueled covid product.
The marketing claim promoting this quacky covid product is that it can “reverse” the effects of covid vaccines is based on misinformation claiming wrongly that the vaccines are giving people some type of damage based on things that don’t even make sense.
Veterinarians, cat tragedies, and avian influenza.
There is no benefit to raw milk or raw meat. Pasteurization and cooking exists.
Lots of stuff presented as “public health” is not.
Is it a product cult or MLM? Is it just some PR operation? Are they providing effective strategies and information or just wasting a lot of time? There may indeed be different paths and approaches that people want to take with things, but the problem is that it’s not always clear what you’re getting into […]
Misinformation and pseudoscience may take over every online space.
This is a huge problem.
Seed oil panic is right-wing health misinformation.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the whole seed oil panic stuff is a right-wing conspiracy theory based “health concern” that’s promoted mostly by masculinity grifters.
Doctors who spread medical misinformation have been free to do so.
Covid contrarians repeating false information have not typically faced much in the ways of consequences.
Vaccine uptake is really low, so why are the anti-vaxxers still so riled up?
It’s like the trucker convoy people protesting public health mitigations that had no longer existed for quite awhile.
