A background story about how a healthgroup became conspiracytheorists. Not a completely new subject, but still relevant.
"They have been moving generally to far-right views, bordering on racism, and really pro-Russian views, with the Ukraine war,” she says. “It started very much with health, with ‘Covid doesn’t exist’, anti-lockdown, anti-masks, and it became anti-everything: the BBC lie, don’t listen to them; follow what you see on the internet.”
Things came to a head when one day, before a meditation session – an activity designed to relax the mind and spirit, pushing away all worldly concerns – the group played a conspiratorial video arguing that 15-minute cities and low-traffic zones were part of a global plot. Jane finally gave up.
This apparent radicalisation of a nice, middle-class, hippy-ish group feels as if it should be a one-off, but the reality is very different. The “wellness-to-woo pipeline” – or even “wellness-to-fascism pipeline” – has become a cause of concern to people who study conspiracy theories.
I thought so too at first when I heard about the notion of gender inequality in medicine and treatment, but it turns out that there’s actually something to it
An overview from 2013: https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=gender+medicine&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1691051117695&u=%23p%3DW7U_RsCHHIMJ
There’s even a textbook just covering gender medicine (used here as “Do I need to treat my patient differently if they’re male/female and if yes how so”): https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=gender+medicine&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1691052542356&u=%23p%3DQZsELNCo5GMJ
A German article discussing these developments, quoting a professor at Germany’s most prestigious Research hospital: “The text reads as if the findings were equally valid for everyone. And on the last page, in the electronic supplement, one finds that the risk reduction for men is 30 percent, but for women only 1 percent, i.e. not at all.” https://www.swr.de/swr2/wissen/gendermedizin-frauen-sind-anders-krank-102.html
So it’s not a case of people talking about gender discrimination, there’s actual hard data to back that up.
That’s not the distortion, the bias in diagnoses and treatments is well known, same reason nobody in their right mind should trust the AI diagnobots. The problem is that if you’re concerned about the loss of trust in the official sources, maybe don’t immediately split the people you’re writing about into “victim of the system” and “Alex Jones gymbro incel” (ironically, thus denying the women in question the agency to be a shithead).
But that’s not what the article in question is doing?