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00:00 Pseudoscience Support
00:11 What is pseudoscience?
00:36 Flat Tummy Tea
01:17 Chiropractors
02:19 Anti-Science
03:07 Autism and Vaccines
04:30 GMOs
05:25 Health Influencers
06:31 Homeopathic Medicine
08:26 5G
10:00 Organic Foods
11:20 Cleanses and Detoxes
11:52 Lyme Disease
13:22 Non-Fluoridated Toothpaste
14:34 Gluten-Free
15:56 Reliable Study
17:47 Artificial Sweeteners
18:53 Supplements
20:13 Crystals
21:00 Fasting
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For more fact checking with Dr. Andrea Love check out the latest episode of Pseudoscience Support: https://youtu.be/hfBJTpewWos
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If a health influencer is breathing, they’re lying.
I love how she had to use cut-outs and cartoons to explain to Vote4Trump question. For some people you really need to dumb things down.
About chiropractors – I know you can throw your back out, or get a crick in your neck, and then a massage therapist or (in my case) an experienced amateur can push on your back until things are right again. Is that not basically what chiropractors are?
i like going to the chiropractor because it relieves my pain enough to let me do exercises that help with my chronic illnesses
It doesn’t surprise me that the person for trump believes nonsense
My question with the vitamin D is that so many people say to start taking it in winter to ward off the sads — is there any science behind this ? Vitamin D = pseudo sun in winter ?
I think I caught a dig at Andrew Huberman there.
How can you tell a health influencer is full of $hit? They’re named David Avocado Wolfe
This Huberman reference 😂 a perfect balance between subtle and poignant
Chiropractors:
I get that the “Father” of chiropractic was a whack, but so were medical doctors of prior times, so that’s not a valid argument to slander all chiropractors. Yep, some are whacks or idiots, but so are some MD’s who basically believe themselves to be God Almighty and refuse to listen to and impartially evaluate the patient’s input.
Now, as for chiros that are practicing much like DO’s – simply adjusting and aligning the skeleton: This is a real thing. Too many people have headaches or back or neckaches that are well treated by careful musculoskeletal manipulation.
I wonder if this women is giving the RFK Jr. crowd conniptions. I hope so.
Lady’s a quack supporter of big pharmacies she knows she’s full of it
I heartily agree with almost everything in this clip EXCEPT the virtual dismissal of chiropractics. Certainly its beginning had dubious aspects, but also around that time the general acceptance by doctors that germs caused disease was also fairly recent. Both communities have evolved to the extent that many doctors may recommend chiropractors to their patients (& health insurance accepts those treatments also). Chiropractors, i.e. DCs are trained into their specialty & can neither make medical diagnoses nor prescribe medicine. MDs can do the both of those but only begin studying a chosen specialty late in their schooling & later in their residency, and they may go for still more specialized training (fellowship). DCs are immediately able to practice after their 3-4 (post-BA) years.
Every single person on the planet should learn what constitutes a scientific theory. Science is never about any buzzwords, it’s about results, the repeatability of that result and the universality of that result.
String together random scientific sounds words without any repeatable evidence is the hallmark of pseudoscience.
Andrew Wakefield should be charged with conspiracy for murder and should be in prison. Other people like him needs to know the consequences of spreading false information that leads to deaths.
What lol! I am a chiropractic student. Chiropractors are doctors. We earn a doctoral degree (DC), complete a rigorous four-year professional program, take national board exams, and are trained extensively in anatomy, physiology, neurology, radiology, nutrition, and biomechanics.
Also, where are you getting this story about D.D palmer talking to ghosts lol D.D. Palmer created chiropractic in 1895 because he believed spinal misalignments interfered with nerve function and the body’s ability to heal itself. That’s it.
We don’t attend medical school just like dentists, optometrists, and podiatrists don’t but we are licensed healthcare doctors with a defined scope focused on conservative neuromusculoskeletal care. Now, I am questioning your background. Also osteopaths are medical doctors read our history of chiropractic and osteopathy and you see the similarities. @WIRED
That is easy. Anyone that labels themself a Healy influencer is full of crap.
To be exact, I don’t think Andrew Wakefield falsified ALL of the data in his paper, just enough to make it completely unreliable. (I did initially write ‘To be fair …’ but I see no need to be fair to a charlatan like Wakefield.)
“And last but not least, if they’re speaking way outside of their area of expertise. If someone is a neuroscientist that specializes in optic nerve signaling, and they’re pretending to be an expert in infectious disease immunology, that’s probably a red flag.”
Shots fired.