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Reading the article gives an impression of the people who seek out and provide bunk medicine. It’s also a picture of how actual medicine is incomplete and has
by odyssey7 7y ago
Reading the article gives an impression of the people who seek out and provide bunk medicine.
It’s also a picture of how actual medicine is incomplete and has failed a lot of people, leaving many suffering and looking high and low for whatever might work.
- elliekelly 7y agoIt was really interesting to me the way the one doctor described her difficulty even discussing bunk science it with her "chronic Lyme" patients: > Chronic Lyme becomes an identity, being anti-vax becomes an identity, and once a belief is incorporated into someone’s identity, it’s very hard to counter. I think it echos a lot of issues we're dealing with today. Once a person "identifies" as something - political party, illness, anti-vaxx, etc. - it's like the brain becomes impervious to any information that might challenge their identity.