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

[Russ Abbott]

Thanks for the link to NCCIH <https://www.nccih.nih.gov/>. Had never heard
of it. Some interesting information, presumably reliable and without a
monetary motivation.

-- Russ Abbott
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles


On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 7:31 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.html
> <
> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.html>
>
> >
> > Once you’re sensitized to the link between snake oil and right-wing
> politics, you realize that it’s pervasive.
> >
> > 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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