Technically not snake oil.
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Lol and yet, simultaneously, it is snake oil, at least figuratively.
Drinking snake oil would be crazy
Drink cod oil instead
So this is fun: actual snake oil (the type made by Chinese railway workers) probably had some medicinal benefits. However, white "doctors" co-opted this for their medicine shows; it contained no snake and was just mineral oil, so this is where the term has its origins.
Maintenance Phase podcast did a great episode on medicine shows.
So now they'll still have the measles but also be spewing out of both ends nonstop... Lovely.
I guess it's better than drinking Borax or injecting bleach...
Leeches and blood letting. I mean at this point why not?
Stop spreading misinformation.
You need warm pigeon blood, followed by a strict diet of roasted onions and three hail Marys.
You guys, we are going to need to make a whole new country to get away from this madness.
God, that actually sounds kind of nice.
Why will people try anything besides real medicine :(
Maybe if enough republicans die, Texas will turn blue.
One can only hope
They’ll just start a conspiracy that the democrats killed them and vote even harder conservative. Their brains are molded and crystallized, they aren’t fuckin’ changing lol
Voting is over. There will not be another fair election in the US until the guillotines fall.
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.
That’s good point. It’s sad but true
Omega 3 aside, it’s not even effective in improving cholesterol levels. It does have a laxative effect though.
Where’s the ground zero for this misinformation? RFK?
From the "we take everything except real medicin"-department.
You see, they don't trust Big Pharma and multi-billion dollar corporations, that's why they do their "research" using only small artisanal free range websites like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok...
I mean, it's not the worst thing in the world. In Norway it's a pretty normal supplement, I've taken one tablespoon every(ish) morning in the months with a R in them, but that's mostly because we don't really see the sun.... so fatty fish is one of the few natural sources of vitamin D we have.
That would be a legitimate medical use vs the complete nonsense of using it for measles.
Absolutely, i 100% agree that it's stupid to use as a "medicine" or a cure for, well, anything. But it's still a supplement with scientific backing
What's next, fucking frogs. Hasa Diga Eebowai 😩
Guess someone at the cod liver oil factory was successful at starting a rumour.
But more likely it was some crackpot theory that got amplified.
Technically the vitamin d content would be good for you, but something conservative, holistic, and witch doctor enthusiasts seem to lack is any belief in or understanding of any micro-organism which absolutely won't lose to your body just because you drank some extra calories.
I'm going out on a limb here and say that Texans generally have no need for supplementary Vitamin D...
First person to combine this with crypto will make bank.
$CodCoin here we gooooo!
You will be able to see who the anti-vaxxers are by the diarrhea shooting out of them.
Hmm. There is a small amount of truth to this, it seems, in that it can help the immune system, especially if you had a deficiency to start with.
Also some pretty nasty side effects, particularly if you have too much over a prolonged period of time.
Somebody has been playing too much We Happy Few
So glad we have whole departments of #doctors and #scientists who will give us the truth and the science to help protect our #health.... Oh, sorry... that was last year.
This year, the heroin addict in charge of the health department says drink some oil, it will make the imaginary #measles go away.
A cod liver isn’t a snake. It can’t be that bad.
/s
Skill Issues
So why are vaccines a "personal choice" (according to RFK Jr.) but abortions aren't?
Your body, your choice (sometimes)