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, [email protected] 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. > -- ☤>$ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
