colleenderkatch.bsky.social
Professor, Toronto Metropolitan U. Rhetoric of health & medicine. Books: Why Wellness Sells (Johns Hopkins UP); Bounding Biomedicine (U Chicago P). Co-Editor, Hopkins Health Humanities (book series)
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She'd already put the powder in her own bottle and her other kid's bottle. I don't know the full story, of course—maybe they'd all just been ill or something—but seeing her haul a big tub of powder out of her bag was remarkable.
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This episode's release comes just 2 days after I saw a mother at the airport force her teen to put an electrolyte powder in his water bottle before they boarded a flight. When he protested, she said she was already having a terrible day and not to make it worse by fighting her on it.
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Means a lot to hear this! Thanks so much for reading it. I'm glad you found value in it.
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Here is our panel description, since the website is so user-unfriendly drive.google.com/file/d/1hUXq...
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Here is our panel description, since the website is so user-unfriendly drive.google.com/file/d/1hUXq...
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It’s OK, I took up skateboarding, which is infinitely more fun. I do skating sometimes though.
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"Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to live your life is even sadder....It’s time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds." LET'S GOOOO
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"[Zuckerberg] Putting on what is clearly a bro disguise to join the boys’ club and sit at the big boy table – it should feel humiliating.... What could be more masculine and cool than selling out vulnerable communities and women to impress the alpha male?" 👏👏👏
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"I cannot skip world events. Nor can I skip Musk’s clear desperation, even as he holds this much wealth and power in his hands, to be thought of as cool....While you may be able to buy power, it’s impossible to buy a good personality." PERFECTION.
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"I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers." YESSSSS.
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"Whether I am engaging with the news, or with Musk tweeting constantly like a man with no job or friends, or with Zuckerberg sending out weird videos and appearing on Rogan, I am in pain. Not just because I don’t like what they are doing but because they are so incredibly, painfully cringe." YES.
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Incidentally, I learned how to build an emergency snow cave and transport an injured person down a mountain this weekend. Escape plan = hatching.
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(This was on Spadina at Bloor and there was a bike lane 15 meters away so it must have been the bike lane's fault. That's how it works here, right?)
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@shawnmicallef.bsky.social, I think you would enjoy this one. ⬆️
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"Premier Escalade." Perfect.
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Legendary street carnage there, too?
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For context: www.saveoursupplements.ca
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Excellent folks such as @this-is-mallory.bsky.social, @derekberes.bsky.social (and the Conspirituality team), and @caulfieldtim.bsky.social have covered these red flags for a long time. 🚩 Once the dust settles on the current parliamentary effort, I look forward to diving back in, too. ✌️
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Supplement producers and natural health practitioners often claim they will be put out of business due to the added financial and evidentiary burden of proving natural health products actually work and do not harm health.
🚩So many red flags here.🚩
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It will be interesting to see whether the same types of arguments crop up in this new petition or whether there has been a shift over the last 2 decades in public beliefs about health, supplements, and/or the role of government in ensuring the safety and efficacy of health products we take.
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Natural health products often serve as symbols of diffuse but deeply held beliefs and values. Our study points to a wider need to investigate the ways that health, politics, and ideology become intertwined both historically and in contemporary public life.
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We showed that health concerns that seem addressable through scientific evidence & education are often rooted instead in pervasive public anxiety about health, bodies, healthcare systems, the environment, & people's ability to trust the organizations structuring their lives.
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We found that the most common topics employed in the petition's arguments against supplement regulation included freedom, choice, health, greed, and nature. These argumentative topics revealed persistent public anxiety not only about health but, surprisingly, also individual agency and autonomy.
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In that article, we examined a 2008 astroturf campaign against similar regulatory oversight, particularly a parliamentary petition with 24,000 signatures. ("Astroturf" because it was a fake grassroots campaign that seemed to come from concerned citizens but was actually an industry initiative.)