[FRIAM] Liberal "othering" or statement of fact?

[Marcus Daniels]

On one hand there is woo-woo, but others have semi-reasonable concerns that drug candidates don't make it through the medical establishment.   I am skeptical about that because pharma stands to make money from any compounds that work, and they have huge investments in high throughput screening.   So it seems to me they'd probably find the chemistry behind herbal remedies.

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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: https://goop.com/ Or reiki. Or crystals. Snake oil is non-partisan.

One thing that's a toss-up for me is the NCCIH: https://www.nccih.nih.gov/ 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.

On 8/31/21 7:09 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> *//*So saith Paul Krugman:
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supple
> ments.html 
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-suppl
> ements.html>
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> Once you’re sensitized to the link between snake oil and right-wing politics, you realize that it’s pervasive.
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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 <https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html>. 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 <https://tvrev.com/whos-still-advertising-with-tucker-carlson-at-the-end-of-q2-2021/> 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.
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