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[–] [email protected] 122 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think any pediatrician would be happy to see unvaccinated kids. So they can vaccinate them and keep them safe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That's how I works indeed

[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago (23 children)

I like essential oils. I add them to a homemade beard balm to make my face smell nice all day. I like prescription drugs, too. Weird to mention those two in the same sentence, but OK.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

There are plenty of essential oils that smell really nice, and are nice to have in soaps or candles or whatever, but I just can't bring myself to give money to any of the companies that make them cause they all support crazies and pseudoscience. If there's a company that doesn't, I'd love to hear about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I like a couple of drops in shea butter for my skin and in a bath with Epsom salts for relaxing tight muscles and the scent relaxes the mind and makes me smell good.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, concentrating the good thing and removing the crap is the basis of medical care.

You know what we call alternate medicine that is proven to work? Medicine. If it worked we wouldn't need "alternate".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I always try to point out that "alternative" means it's something different than. Like an alternative to something that helps. You wouldn't eat "alternative food." Because it's not food.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Alternative meat?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I love how "snake oil" literally became a shorthand for a medical scam that does nothing. Then millions of people one day just decided the "snake" part was the only problem.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There has always been a portion of the population willing to buy the snake oil.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The cocaine and heroin did something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

That was sold by doctors though, not snake oil salesmen

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooo.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

"I went through seven years of medical school and residency so I can listen to some asshole yoga mom on Facebook who made measles a thing again!" Said no pediatrician ever.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

But, but, haven't you seen this post on Facebook?!?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In Germany such doctors are all over the place and embedded within the statutory health care system. It was a huge shock to me, when I first arrived here. Their health care system has been a huge let down, in general, but this was beyond crazy to me. Sometimes, if you are not careful you go to a pharmacy or a doctor's clinic and you get prescribed snake oil voodoo medicine, if you are not careful.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

the issue is that most of the worlds' ~~placebo~~ homeopathic globoli production happens in one region of Germany, and these industries have yes money to lobby shit, at least if you avoid the doctor's offices that look like a 70s new-wave nostalgia trip you can be sure to avoid 90% of these idiots

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

Wanted: bad pediatrician, for kids you don’t care about.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Several years ago at my kids’ pediatrician’s office they hired a new doc. As soon as she started advocating raw milk I knew that was the last time we’d be visiting that office.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Omigod. You can't even get raw milk where I live.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've had raw milk twice in my life, once straight from the tank at the dairy. I hate how astronomically delicious it is. I wish we could have it safely cuz damn. I can't even credibly compare it to pasteurized when it comes to taste.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Crackpot theory: pictured poster is trying to do a twin study, giving one twin medical care in accordance to generally accepted best practices and the other almond mom style care but they want to control variables by having them see the same doctor. I look forward to reading their study when they publish it in 2-18 years depending on if the one participant survives

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

almond mom

Typically white suburban moms who were 90s girls and never accepted they had an eating disorder, so now they have to make it everyone else’s problem

“A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips is my almond moms favorite mantra”

Urban Dictionary

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

PSA: keep essential oils away from your cats. Don't pit them in them, and especially don't use those vaporizers. Most of those oils are toxic to cats. If you want your house to smell nice, burn incense.

If you don't have cats, go wild; there's nothing wrong with the oils themselves, and they smell nice. But many are toxic to cats, and it can be hard to get a complete list of which.

Neither are going to protect or cure you of anything (except, perhaps, a cat infestation), but scent can be nice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Incense and smelling nice is combination I never thought I'd see.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

So, of course there's absolutely preference, but there's only one hard rule about incense: you have to be the inner burning it. Walking into a room full of incense that someone else picked and burned is rarely fun. Strong scents like that depend a lot on mood to be pleasing. It's like a curry at the office: if you're the one having it, it can smell great, but walking into a break room filled with the smell of someone else's curry they just heated in the microwave can be nauseating.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So, why do these child abusers even want to see a doctor when they don’t believe in medicine?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Can anyone recommend a local shaman...?" would've been more like it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I went to see the doctor
He said, "You're pretty sick
You got some real bad habits
You'd better stop right quick"

I said, "Doctor, that's real bad news
Don't know what I'm gonna do"

Doctor, there's nothin' wrong with me
Doctor, doctor, can't you see?
Doctor, I ain't gonna die
Just write me an alibi

I went to see a shaman
He said, "You'll be alright
Just keep doin' what you love
Every single night"

I said, "That's what I need to hear"
Took away my childish fears

Doctor, you're a stand up guy
Doctor, doctor, my, oh my
Doctor, you're the one for me
That's the mojo that I need

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zZTNJQQfDz8

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Most likely trying to get documentation for their kids so they can go get sick at school.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

What a fucking idiot

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I haven't been to medical school, but i found this website and now i believe...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

It’s like the Enlightenment didn’t happen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

You'd have only slightly worse luck finding one that encourages the use of tobacco.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I want to hear the long, raging, cathartic answer to feel better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I hate them all so much and wish COVID had wiped out more of the obnoxious ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sadly, yes. Well, recommend, no, but I know one.

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