<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Thanks for the link to <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://www.nccih.nih.gov/">NCCIH</a>. Had never heard of it. Some interesting information, presumably reliable and without a monetary motivation.</span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font><u style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><br></u></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font><u style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"> </u></font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:24.75px"> </span>-- Russ Abbott <br>Professor Emeritus, Computer Science<br>California State University, Los Angeles<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 7:31 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I don't want to be a "both sides" person. But there's plenty of that on the left, too. I suppose it's for products like Paltrow's: <a href="https://goop.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://goop.com/</a> Or reiki. Or crystals. Snake oil is non-partisan.<br>
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One thing that's a toss-up for me is the NCCIH: <a href="https://www.nccih.nih.gov/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nccih.nih.gov/</a> On the one hand, I'm an integrationist ... and my contrariness demands I respect *complementary*. But some of the stuff they support research into looks like hogwash to me. I try to keep an open mind, though.<br>
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On 8/31/21 7:09 AM, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
> *//*So saith Paul Krugman:<br>
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> Once you’re sensitized to the link between snake oil and right-wing politics, you realize that it’s pervasive.<br>
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> This is clearly true in the right’s fever swamps. Alex Jones of Infowars has built a following by pushing conspiracy theories, but he makes money by selling nutritional supplements <<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html</a>>. It’s also true, however, for more mainstream, establishment parts of the right. For example, Ben Shapiro, considered an intellectual on the right, hawks supplements.Look at who advertises <<a href="https://tvrev.com/whos-still-advertising-with-tucker-carlson-at-the-end-of-q2-2021/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tvrev.com/whos-still-advertising-with-tucker-carlson-at-the-end-of-q2-2021/</a>> on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. After Fox itself, the top advertisers are My Pillow, then three supplement companies.Snake oil peddlers, clearly, find consumers of right-wing news and punditry a valuable market for their wares. So it shouldn’t be surprising to find many right-leaning Americans ready to see vaccination as a liberal plot and turn to dubious alternatives — although, again, I didn’t see livestock dewormer coming.<br>
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