10 Weird Health Theories That Just Won't Go Away
Blogger Jim Edwards has a list of "10 Weird Health Theories That Just Won't Go Away."
Many of them flower from the backlash to the medical industrial complex's desire to medicalize, and provide a pill for, all slightly different human behaviors. Others underscore how appropriate skepticism about modern medicine can lead to an over-correction and an endorsement of wrongheaded and dangerous ideas (autism being caused by vaccines as a prominent example).
Here's the list of myths:
• "The so-called obesity epidemic is just a scare tactic to make you feel bad"
• "Human growth hormone is the fountain of youth"
• "Women who don't like sex have female sexual dysfunction"
• "Low-dose naltrexone cures everything"
• "Multiple sclerosis is caused by blocked jugular veins"
• "Taking multivitamins can prevent prostate cancer"
• "High cholesterol is not a health risk" [Note from Malone: This one is complicated.]
• "The feds want to microchip you like a pet cat"
• "HIV is not the cause of AIDS"
• "Vaccines cause autism"
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