I was listening to an intervew on the NYT podcast “The Daily” with a teacher who won’t vaccinate, and doesnt vaccinate her son (14) because they eat healthy and do yoga (so their immune system is strong.) She reacted to a flu vaccine when she was a kid, so she swore off vaccines. And I was, frankly, astonished that a teacher would not know how to check with a biologist on biology questions related to how your immune system and vaccines work. She believes that her immune system will beat it back and that’s all that’s necessary to know.
Now, I do my best to eat healthy foods. I eat fresh or frozen rather than canned vegetables, and so on.. But the health food industry is so full of hucksters who sell their stuff either in overpriced groceries or their powders and mixes through MLM that it’s bizarre that people can’t see through the claims of superfood vendors and supplement (that THEY don’t want you to know about) sellers whose sales pitch is that the “medical establishment doesn’t want to cure you, they want you to stay sick so you keep buying more medicine. Here, buy my stuff and take it for the rest of your life so you don’t support big pharma!” And stay away from the vaccines. They’ll make you sick.
And I was, frankly, astonished that a teacher would not know how to check with a biologist on biology questions related to how your immune system and vaccines work
That doesn’t surprise me at all. I have been lectured by teachers (not biology) about how much I don’t know about the topic, because truth is relative, because I am part of an elite establishment (and they’re not?), and because I have sold out to the white, patriarchal, imperialist, racist, sexist establishment while they are going back to the “roots” of humans and honoring tradition and age-old practices that our ancestors used. (You mean the ones that used to die of the plague? Count me out.)
One thing I can assure you is that most teachers in the liberal arts (and most other fields) believe that scientists are snobbish and dead wrong about everything. This goes double for the skilled and technical teachers, who believe that about anyone who works in an academic field. Scientific “facts” fly hot and heavy through the email system, defying all attempts by the science faculty to correct the misinformation.
Here, buy my stuff and take it for the rest of your life so you don’t support big pharma!
The grim punchline being, of course, that the supplement/homoeopathy/bullshit industry is big pharma. Who on Earth do people imagine manufacture and market all these ‘treatments’?
Why oh why did the damn librul gubmint and far leftist media not warn them?? If only someone had said something!
I was listening to an intervew on the NYT podcast “The Daily” with a teacher who won’t vaccinate, and doesnt vaccinate her son (14) because they eat healthy and do yoga (so their immune system is strong.) She reacted to a flu vaccine when she was a kid, so she swore off vaccines. And I was, frankly, astonished that a teacher would not know how to check with a biologist on biology questions related to how your immune system and vaccines work. She believes that her immune system will beat it back and that’s all that’s necessary to know.
Now, I do my best to eat healthy foods. I eat fresh or frozen rather than canned vegetables, and so on.. But the health food industry is so full of hucksters who sell their stuff either in overpriced groceries or their powders and mixes through MLM that it’s bizarre that people can’t see through the claims of superfood vendors and supplement (that THEY don’t want you to know about) sellers whose sales pitch is that the “medical establishment doesn’t want to cure you, they want you to stay sick so you keep buying more medicine. Here, buy my stuff and take it for the rest of your life so you don’t support big pharma!” And stay away from the vaccines. They’ll make you sick.
That doesn’t surprise me at all. I have been lectured by teachers (not biology) about how much I don’t know about the topic, because truth is relative, because I am part of an elite establishment (and they’re not?), and because I have sold out to the white, patriarchal, imperialist, racist, sexist establishment while they are going back to the “roots” of humans and honoring tradition and age-old practices that our ancestors used. (You mean the ones that used to die of the plague? Count me out.)
One thing I can assure you is that most teachers in the liberal arts (and most other fields) believe that scientists are snobbish and dead wrong about everything. This goes double for the skilled and technical teachers, who believe that about anyone who works in an academic field. Scientific “facts” fly hot and heavy through the email system, defying all attempts by the science faculty to correct the misinformation.
The grim punchline being, of course, that the supplement/homoeopathy/bullshit industry is big pharma. Who on Earth do people imagine manufacture and market all these ‘treatments’?