Ten Facebook Pages You Need to Stop Sharing From

[HuckleB]

http://dawnsbrain.com/ten-facebook-pages-you-need-to-stop-sharing-from/

"A friend of mine shared an eyebrow-raising article on Facebook. The linked story was along the lines of “private planes stolen by terrorists in the Middle East, and an attack is imminent”. The sensible people among his friends good-naturedly mocked him. They ribbed him about how ridiculous the prediction was. And all you had to do was consider the source.

My friend had shared the story from a notoriously crackpot Facebook page. The post lacked any merit, save a few tenuous and unrelated pieces of actual news. This behavior was typical of this particular page. Often, these types of pages hook you with a kernel of truth, and then wrap it in layers of idiocy.

When confronted, this friend said, “well, we’ll see who’s right in time.” The prediction by Natural News has failed to become reality almost a year later.

The Facebook fan pages below have a habit of spitting scientific inquiry and reason in the eye. They also have an unreasonably high number of fans who share their inanity. Shares from the following pages deserve a serious eye roll and shaking of one’s head.

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Indeed.

[arcane1]

1. Great list! There were a few that were new to me, but the rest are the cause of many eye-rolls

[Behind the Aegis]

2. For sure, especially Natural News and Alex Jones...anti-Semitic and homophobic to boot.

But, as evidenced by the comments below the article, those sites are like drugs and they have their hardcore junkies.

[blm]

3. Moonie News.

RW propaganda.

[HuckleB]

4. Indeed.

[world wide wally]

5. You sound pretty skeptical of anything BUT traditional AMA medicine as practiced in 21st century

America.
I think there is some credence to a lot of whey is said albeit I don't buy into any one of the sources completely.
I think that many people who study Chinese medicine, which has been developing for about 2000 years and recognizes the importance of diet, would justifiably roll their eyes at every new "miracle cure" big pharma comes out with this month… until they figure out that it can result in impotence, headaches, dizzyness, drowsiness, severe pain, or death and then pull it off the market.

[HuckleB]

6. You realize that diet is a part of any science-based health care, right?

I am into utilizing the scientific process to help make the best decisions on treatments. I am not particularly fond of pseudoscience. In fact, I find it to be rather unethical. The pages listed in this OP are simply untenable, as they push all sorts of ugly nonsense upon people. Listing possible side effects to medicine has nothing to do with the matter of these pages being ridiculous and unethical in nature. BTW, TCM is just another pre-scientific notion that is being used today. It's one elaborate placebo.

What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine?
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-is-traditional-chinese-medicine/

Chairman Mao: The real inventor of “traditional Chinese medicine”
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/10/25/chairman-mao-inventor-of-traditional-chinese-medicine/

The Reality of Ancient Wisdom: Acupuncture and TCM Weren’t So Great
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-reality-of-ancient-wisdom-acupuncture-and-tcm-werent-so-great/

traditional Chinese medicine
http://www.skepdic.com/tcm.html

A TCM Challenge
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-tcm-challenge/

[world wide wally]

7. I have a friend who is a pediatrician and he told me he never had one course in nutrition or

virtually anything food and diet related.

Just sayin'

[HuckleB]

8. Yes, he did. He wouldn't be a pediatrician, if he hadn't.

I work in a pediatric clinic. Guess what? The anonymous anecdote you just offered doesn't pass muster.

[world wide wally]

9. Just telling you what he told me.

He was from Mississippi and lived here in Colorado for several years then relocated back to Mississippi. That was the last I heard of him. It is his own anecdote, not mine.

[HuckleB]

10. That's your claim.

[world wide wally]

11. Yep. It is

and yours is that American medicine is the only legit medicine on the planet.

[HuckleB]

12. I am saying that the scientific method is the best way to figure out what works and what doesn't.

There is no such thing as "American medicine." Also, scam artists are unethical, and the pages noted in the OP push unproven scams and fictions.

[world wide wally]

13. Some of them yes. I agree with you.

But there is also value in many of the things said about food and diet.

[HuckleB]

14. You response doesn't even make sense as a response to my post.

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Food and diet are a part of health care. No one says differently except alt med providers who try to pretend that it's not. Also, those pages give bad information on food.

[jmowreader]

15. The order this is presented in is a little weird

Alex Jones should be number 1, then Mercola, followed by Mike Adams and Vani Hari in whichever order you prefer, and then the rest of them.

[HuckleB]

16. They're all horrific, so I'm not sure the order matters that much.

[etherealtruth]

17. I am very glad I did not know those pages existed

I am sure, if pressed, I would have guessed they existed ....

I will stick to the Environmental Science Techniques community page .... and all things puppies!

[HuckleB]

18. Can you share why you think that page is viable?

I think it might be, but...

[etherealtruth]

19. About this page

For environmental scientists and specialists, we bring information and updates from the world of environmental science.

on edit: https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentalScienceTechniques?fref=ts

It is important to me to read the trends, techniques and news in my field.

Here is the last post I shared

http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/june/catalysts-remove-estrogenic-compounds-from-wastewater.html

Catalysts created by Carnegie Mellon University chemist Terrence J. Collins effectively and safely remove a potent and dangerous endocrine disruptor from wastewater.
In a paper published in Scientific Reports, Collins’ research team and collaborators led by Brunel University London’s Susan Jobling and Rak Kanda demonstrate that the catalysts could be a viable option for large-scale water treatment.
As pharmaceutical use has skyrocketed, especially in first-world countries, the amount of drugs released into the water system through wastewater has dramatically increased. Medications designed to disrupt the endocrine system, such as birth control pills and some breast and prostate cancer drugs, can be found in close to 25 percent of the world’s streams, rivers and lakes. Studies have shown that these compounds have an adverse effect on the health of wildlife.
In many cases, researchers are finding that male fish in these polluted water sources undergo a process called feminization, which is an indicator that estrogenic contaminants are present in the water. Prolonged exposure to these female hormones can cause males to develop eggs in their testes and leads to the decline of fish populations.

I sure hope you are not questioning my love of the puppy pages

[HuckleB]

21. So you have no objective evidence to support that page.

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Thus, we can only conclude that said page pushes pseudoscience.

[davidpdx]

20. I have one or two Facebook friends who share a few of those pages

but I never click or share them. One is a libertarian and the other is studying homeopathy and believes all the stuff about vaccines causing problems.

[HuckleB]

22. Oh, boy.

Yikes.

[davidpdx]

23. Well I've had worse than that,

but I got rid of them. Surprisingly the Libertarian likes Sanders so he and I get along. The stuff about vaccines I just ignore.

[hatrack]

24. Christ, Natural News . ..

[T_i_B]

25. A list of snake oil salesman + Alex Jones

May I also suggest the far right "Britain First" page as well, which quite few people share bullshit from. I have a rule about automatically unfriending anyone who shares from them.

[HuckleB]

27. Oh, I'm sure there are many more.

There was a follow-up ten added to this piece a few days later, too.

[get the red out]

26. Some of those pages make me ill

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But, can I be an acceptable liberal if I admit that an herbal remedy helped my unbearable menstral pain when I was young when my Dr had put me on narcotics for it? I did try the narcotics, I really did! But they made me itch and I had trouble focusing in school while scientifically fucked up.

I know the fact that an herb helped me is supposed to make me an idiot and negate the prescribed pharmaceuticals that I take for other conditions. This humiliation of anyone who ever buys a head of organic lettuce or herbal remedy is going way too far around here. This tent is pup-sized right now. And NO I neither visit those sites or pass them along. I post puppy pictures, I can only hope those pups aren't too "looney".

[HuckleB]

28. It doesn't make you an idiot.

What would make things problematic is if you started promoting this remedy to others based on your anecdote. There are many possible reasons why you felt better after taking it, and, it's great that it helped you, but promoting it is a whole different issue.