Recently retired but not quite. Bachelor of Science & Nursing, 35 ish years in healthcare. As are many, I’m so confused and baffled with all the misinformation surrounding science and research. Was a bit dumbfounded to find this among colleagues. I want to understand why, so thank you Dr. Jonathon Stea. Looking forward to this.
Clinical psychologist in private practice. Previously worked in hospital psychiatric settings and trained Masters level clinical psychology students in the university training clinic. (Western Australia)
I've been following Dr. Mercola and RFK Jr. for several years, and I can't help but note that while they are both often wrong and dangerous, THEY ARE NOT 100% WRONG. Some of the wounds they pick at are real, but they get lost, one way or the other , in the general mayhem of their writings.
Many vaccine defenders are guilty of the same approach!
There is a (tribal?) mechanism that forces certain personalities into an all or nothing mindset.
Dr. Mercola was always open minded to medical theories, procedures and supplements that were usually neutral, sometimes helpful, and occasionally harmful.
I believe history has proven Mercola right in fighting mercury amalgams, but that long battle and his objection to mercury adjuvants in vaccines (another dodgy concept in my opinion) put him in the crosshairs of some powerful establishment forces. The backlash imposed a direct financial cost on his business.
Rather than give in, Dr. Mercola doubled down. Now he seeks out and lends his megaphone to any claim or conspiracy theory that places vaccines in a negative light, particularly COVID vaccines.
RFK Jr. got there through litigating against vaccine manufacturers.
Foremost to me though is that, despite their take no prisoners approach, THEY ARE NOT TOTALLY WRONG!
Here is what I would like to see analyzed:
How does one point out, discuss and investigate one of these hot-button issues (from either side) without either becoming, or being accused of being a zealot or a sellout?
Also, how can the fringe players be brought back into productive conversations?
To me this is consequential because most of us are pushed into camps where all vaccines are bad or alternately, all vaccines are good without serious review.
Couldn't be more delighted that Dr Jonathan Stea has made the move to Substack to help build a great community here in place of the Twitter sewer. Do yourself a favour and get your free subscription at https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanstea/p/its-time-to-mind-the-science-when?r=1nbdxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Social worker psychotherapist & psychoanalyst here, recently retired from full-time private practice, following with great interest.
Recently retired but not quite. Bachelor of Science & Nursing, 35 ish years in healthcare. As are many, I’m so confused and baffled with all the misinformation surrounding science and research. Was a bit dumbfounded to find this among colleagues. I want to understand why, so thank you Dr. Jonathon Stea. Looking forward to this.
Retired neuropsychologist. Post doc at residential treatment hospital for substance abuse. Cringe at pseudoscience.
Clinical psychologist in private practice. Previously worked in hospital psychiatric settings and trained Masters level clinical psychology students in the university training clinic. (Western Australia)
Welcome to Substack!
I've been following Dr. Mercola and RFK Jr. for several years, and I can't help but note that while they are both often wrong and dangerous, THEY ARE NOT 100% WRONG. Some of the wounds they pick at are real, but they get lost, one way or the other , in the general mayhem of their writings.
Many vaccine defenders are guilty of the same approach!
There is a (tribal?) mechanism that forces certain personalities into an all or nothing mindset.
Dr. Mercola was always open minded to medical theories, procedures and supplements that were usually neutral, sometimes helpful, and occasionally harmful.
I believe history has proven Mercola right in fighting mercury amalgams, but that long battle and his objection to mercury adjuvants in vaccines (another dodgy concept in my opinion) put him in the crosshairs of some powerful establishment forces. The backlash imposed a direct financial cost on his business.
Rather than give in, Dr. Mercola doubled down. Now he seeks out and lends his megaphone to any claim or conspiracy theory that places vaccines in a negative light, particularly COVID vaccines.
RFK Jr. got there through litigating against vaccine manufacturers.
Foremost to me though is that, despite their take no prisoners approach, THEY ARE NOT TOTALLY WRONG!
Here is what I would like to see analyzed:
How does one point out, discuss and investigate one of these hot-button issues (from either side) without either becoming, or being accused of being a zealot or a sellout?
Also, how can the fringe players be brought back into productive conversations?
To me this is consequential because most of us are pushed into camps where all vaccines are bad or alternately, all vaccines are good without serious review.