re: #20 ericblair

It’s all about getting back at those smarty-pants egghead doctors who think they know it all. That’s part and parcel of soaking in conspiracy theories 24/7; it’s all about having the secret knowledge that others don’t. Most of the clickbait ads I and everyone else gets are about some rando sticking a household implement or vegetable in some orifice and how DOCTORS are STUNNED or WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.

It’s the same two words as always: “confirmation bias.” These yahoos largely grew up being told by their parents and grandparents that doctors are all “quacks” who do nothing but take your vitals, scratch off a prescription for a bunch of pills, and then send you outrageously high bills. And that half the stuff they give you doesn’t work, the other half just makes you sicker, so you’re better off look for “home remedies” which are not only cheap but offer that good ol’ placebo effect. So they look for studies that promise cheap “cures” in common products/medicines and reject ones that say that the medically-approved treatment actually works.