Tag: pseudoscience

Eugenics is always a pseudoscience hoax.

It’s just an ideology, and a bad one based in accelerationist hopium and ableism, and racism. Mother Jones – January 2, 2025 – Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech – A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley. – Julia Métraux The US psychologist and eugenicist Henry Goddard played an […]

Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.

Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.

Jay Bhattacharya is unqualified to lead the NIH — still promoting bogus covid cures in 2024

This person must not be installed in a position where he will jeopardize the health of Americans with his fringe pseudoscience ideas.

Ohio wants to force doctors to give quack cure to kids with covid.

The knock on effects of this would probably be many and very problematic.

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.

Jessica Pants On Fire

Why I don’t share this influencer’s content, and I don’t think you should either.

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 […]

There are already guidelines that prevent people who feel unwell from donating blood.

I’m starting to think this issue is being pushed online because any type of controversy or fear mongering will generate attention and clicks…

Misinformation and pseudoscience may take over every online space.

This is a huge problem.

Public Health has “public” in it for a reason.

Buying into stigma by seeking “discreet” solutions is individualist hopium.

Trump rally streams still pushing ivermectin.

stream from the Trump rally at Madison Square garden with a 3-way split screen with the featured comedian in the middle, a view of the entire arena filled with people on the left, and on the right an advertisement for ivermectin