• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    I think any pediatrician would be happy to see unvaccinated kids. So they can vaccinate them and keep them safe.

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    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.

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      “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.

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    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.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    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.

      • 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.

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    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

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      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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    No because they don’t want your kids smearing varicella all over their waiting room and killing all the kids with cancer.