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Cod liver oil embraced amid Texas measles outbreak; doctors fight misinfo (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think the answer is as simple as memes would like to believe. Personally I suspect the issue, in part, has to do with the cost of healthcare in the US.

Much like Republican voters have a need to pretend the GOP is actually helping them, I think holistic medicine rubes and anti-vaxxers have a need to discount the efficacy of unaffordable healthcare. They don't need to worry about the price being a multiple of their income anymore, because they just now decided every doctor is a quack and a conman.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That’s good point. It’s sad but true