people who shame modern medicine are shit

[tielan]

Insulin is medicine from a lab. So are anti-depressants. So is the Pill. So are all the drugs that CFS or HIV people need to survive.

DO NOT GIVE ME THAT SHIT ABOUT "REAL MEDICINE COMES FROM THE EARTH NOT FROM A LAB" FUCKER

No, I don't need any of that to survive - but I know a metric fucktonne of people who do.

I'm 100% a gardener, a permaculturist, and someone who thinks we could probably - overall and as a society - do with less medical intervention on occasion. But I also know that many of us survive on a biochemical intervention which was developed in a lab at some point or another.

When you beat people who actually need biomedical intervention in their lives by shaming their supposed rejection of "earth and nature", though, you've lost me entirely.

FTR: It was FB. It was someone I didn't know really well, but had met once. I didn't lose my shit. I was civil. I think. No promises, though.

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[phyrry]

Eh, I regularly get told "if you just did [x] then you wouldn't need insulin!!" Which is ignorant and annoying but the Just World fallacy is very comforting to the able-bodied.

[tielan]

There are some things that could probably be less pushed upon us - we don't need to wipe down every surface, for instance.

But other advances...yes. They're very useful for, you know, keeping people alive when they'd otherwise die young or live in constant pain (but not for long, because pain is a life-sapper).