Doctors orders should be questioned, of course, since they're also trying to reduce their own liability should anything go wrong. But this cynicism is being diverted into desperate alternatives, into the inklings of what is looking like outright superstition.
I understand it to some degree, of course; when a doctor recommends a treatment to slightly prolong your life, vs an expert who promises to completely heal your ailment -- you're likely to go with the so called expert.
Nobody was blaming RFK for this particular case, reading it you can see the reason RFK was called out is because he's the main health 'professional' representative who, himself, spout debunked lies. Again giving confirming biases to other people who believe this nonsense.
Where he should know better with the access to the best professionals in the world, he still spreads misinformation, of course people will call him out.
It's only hard to make the leap if you're too biased toward rational faculties. Your irrational faculties can make the leap fairly trivially.
He had a pancreatic cancer. It was detected early and it was one of the rare cases that had a good prognosis. He changed his mind only after it was too later and regretted his bad decision.
At what point does someone step in and call this child abuse, at the very least these parents are not capable of raising their children in a safe manner.
> Kate Shemirani styles herself as "the Natural Nurse" on social media
And therein lies our main issue. People on social media who are amplified and given confirmation biases from the algorithm with basically zero moderation now.
Maybe it's callous to say but seems like Darwins law should settle these things.
This was my thinking as well.
However, I do think the blaming the patient is a distraction. I see more anti-science from industrialists and politicians when their industries receive scientific recommendations for regulation.
There was more anti-science in the decades of poor policy decisions that lead up to a young woman getting non-Hodkings lymphoma than anti-science displayed by her in the moments when she had to choose how to respond to it.
brightmood•3h ago
That article is no shocker. It exposes the same weakness in openly questioning things and using your brain.
Related: People argue like this:
- "All people who make stairs hating on wheelchair users"
- "Men who don't like other men crying or showing emotions are hating all women"
The problem isn't just conspiracy theories - it's this broader pattern of binary thinking that refuses to acknowledge nuance or complexity. When we jump to these extreme conclusions, we lose the ability to have real discussions about difficult topics.
These, or similar quick conclusions are flawed to the core and hurt those around.