• Monzcarro@feddit.uk
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      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.

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      Stop spreading misinformation.

      You need warm pigeon blood, followed by a strict diet of roasted onions and three hail Marys.

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      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…

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      Because vaccines aren’t “killing another person”, even though the lack of them DOES kill people, children especially.

      Aaaand we just found another contradiction lmfao

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      So why are vaccines a “personal choice” (according to RFK Jr.)

      Oh don’t worry, they’ll get rid of that choice in due time too

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        RFK jr is obsessed with drinking methylene blue. someone posted a video on reddit a 2 weeks ago of him dropping a mysterious liquid into his drink.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      I’m going out on a limb here and say that Texans generally have no need for supplementary Vitamin D…

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    You will be able to see who the anti-vaxxers are by the diarrhea shooting out of them.

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    Man my mother had us take cod liver oil with the usual multivitamin as kids. It tasted kinda bad, but otherwise meh. You know what it wasn’t though? A substitute for fucking vaccines. I just wish they’d had the chicken pox vaccine back then. That shit sucked.

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    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.