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🙅🏽♀️RDs: Badly Explain Their Profession
Can you figure out what type of job these dietitians have?
Lauren H. “I like to guess how hungry people are but in milliliters. Then I tell someone else to pour it down a tube.”
Rachel C. “I make people miserable by telling them to eat palm sized amounts of carbs while also implanting a device/ monitor into the back of their arm that tells on them when they don’t.”
Paige C. “I help people obtain and keep repurposed organs.”
Sara G. “I convince people who run for fun that eating bread and pasta won’t make them slow.”
Stella L. “I help people heal wounds on their bottoms.”
Leah P. “I reassure parents that their toddler is getting enough protein.”
Kacyeene B. “I educate people with rapidly dividing cells on how to keep eating and drinking while they are being pumped full of chemicals and/or irradiated.”
⚠️Warning Against“SkinnyTok”
Dietitian Andrea Mathis mentioned: What Is SkinnyTok? Experts Warn Of Dangerous New Gen-Z Trend! - Perez Hilton
🤔Defeasibility: What Would it Take to Change Your Mind?
Peter Boghossian Skeptic » Reading Room » What Would it Take to Change Your Mind?
“…Instead of telling people to form beliefs on the basis of evidence, encourage them to seek out something, anything, that could potentially undermine their confidence in a particular belief. (Not something that will, but something that could. Phrased this way it’s less threatening.) This makes thinking critical….Philosophers call this process “defeasibility”. Defeasibility basically refers to whether or not a belief is revisable. This strategy is effective because asking the question, “What evidence would it take to change your mind?” creates openings or spaces in someone’s belief where they challenge themselves to reflect upon whether or not their confidence in a belief is justified. You’re not telling them anything. You’re simply asking questions. And every time you ask it’s another opportunity for people to reevaluate and revise their beliefs. Every claim can be viewed as such, an opportunity to habituate people to seek disconfirming evidence….”
#WOO Watch
🙄#Woo #1: The Food Babe (Boob) is BAAACCKK
“…Vani (aka “The Food Babe”) is not a doctor, scientist, or nutritionist. She studied computer science. But somehow, she thinks she knows more about food and health than people with actual degrees in biology and chemistry.
Her business, Truvani, sells overpriced supplements. She calls other products “toxic,” then turns around and sells her own with similar ingredients…she’s good at making fear look pretty. She speaks in simple terms, uses scary words like “chemicals” and “toxins,” and makes it sound like science is out to get you….
Here’s the real danger: Vani makes people fear food. She makes parents think safe meals are poison. She makes shoppers afraid of labels they don’t understand. She turns regular food into a horror story, all to sell supplements.”
🩺#Woo #2: (Dr. Mark) Hyman
Mark Hyman's “reasonable” junk science - by Derek Beres
“…Sounding reasonable is part of Hyman’s charm. Unlike other MAHA activists, he often qualifies statements and rarely raises responds feverishly. He comes across as empathic and caring…All of which makes him more dangerous. He’s hitched his train to longtime friend RFK Jr’s MAHA train and stands to profit further from his $28M empire when his friend “ends the suppression” of supplements. Raging against problems with vaccinology plays very well for a man who specializes in treating made-up conditions with “solutions” he’ll profit from.
Does it matter that those problems aren’t real? Not at all. It’s been part of Hyman’s playbook for decades, and he’s very good at it. Which means you have to spend more time sifting through the marketing hyperbole to distinguish fiction versus fact…”.