Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy https://arstechni.ca/seH4 #Infectiousdisease #foodsafety #pregnancy #listeria #kennedy #rawmilk #Health #death #ACOG #baby #fda
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Good god 😞
We don't have to do this, we have the knowledge and medicine to prevent this. We don't have to go back to the 1800s.
Why are people listening to people like RFK jr? He has blood on his hands.
Yes, indeed, why are people ignoring medical advice and going to quacks? This is a commonly-posed question that needs to be answered, but without self-serving smugness. There is a reason and it's one that should be taken seriously for a change instead of dismissing people as ignorant and stupid. (I mean they may actually be one or the other or both, but... I'm guessing that's only part of the answer.)
What we have here is an epistemic failure, not an intellectual one.
It's not smugness, it's anger at RFK jr et al. who are effectively killing babies by deliberately spreading medical misinformation.
@FediThing @arstechnica You did mention RFK Jr., yes, but in the context of "people listening to" him.
There is a reason why people are listening to quacks and not doctors. To reverse this trend you have to understand why. You have to understand how the medical system has failed people to drive them into the arms of the quacks.
The uncomfortable question is "what are the quacks doing right that the medical establishment is botching?"
It might help if you gave a specific example, because without them it sounds like you're blaming honest doctors for the dishonesty of quacks.
@FediThing @arstechnica A specific example of people listening to quacks over the medical establishment?
Look up in the thread. There's your specific example. Here, I'll replicate it: https://arstechni.ca/seH4
This woman is a specific example of someone who listened to quacks instead of the medical establishment. This is an epistemic failure, and of a variety that has become a veritable epidemic in the USA. What drove her away from medicine into the arms of charlatans?
That needs answering.
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