7 Times 'Modern Alternative Mama' Was So Stupid She Was Dangerous
1. The Rise of Proud Anti-Intellectualism
Anti-science ideologists like Kate Tietje – especially the ones who have Internet access and a big ego – are plentiful on social media.
They have a cult-following of loyal subjects and even a steady stream of non-followers who will still apologise and defend their actions and words, regardless of the clear danger of the advice being given. Because apparently we can’t take unqualified parents to task for their role in the spread of anti-intellectualism and pseudoscience, due to our society’s stupid idea that parents always know what's best for their kids.
The Cult of Wellness doesn't make the current situation any better. Our society's preoccupation with "Wellness" is almost at a distracting level. Every chemical is bad. Every scientist is evil. You have to eat clean, drink green, organic every little thing, detoxify at every chance because apparently everyone has liver damage. And don't even think about giving your child a piece of chocolate, they may spontaneously combust. Coffee is bad unless it's $59.95 plus shipping and imported from a country whose national budget is probably less than my yearly salary but hey, it says "GMO free" so it must be healthy for you.
No wonder under-qualified scientifically illiterate people like Kate Tietje, scam artists like Belle Gibson, Vani Hari, Mercola and conspiracy theorists like Mike Adams, can gain a following, everyone is so scared about living, they don't know how to live. Validating a person's ill-informed choices would also help Kate's readership. Nothing says mummy-following like making a parent feel elitist. Mike Adams can tell people to kill scientists and he still has people defending him. Belle Gibson faked cancer, scammed people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and used gullible people suckered into the Wellness Cult in order to do it - and people are still defending her.
Remember kids: Pharmaceutical companies are keeping us sick with drugs by hiding the cure for cancer except for the type of cancer they developed a vaccine for, but don’t use the vaccine because vaccines are poison, take this unregulated, untested concoction that has no scientific backing for $49.95 from my website but don’t say anything bad about it because I will ban you on Facebook and call you a shill, but that's okay because I'm just asking questions.
Sounds legit.
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