The irony of Neil Young protesting disinformation: He is one of pop culture's biggest science deniers
https://www.science20.com/content/the_ir...ce_deniers
INTRO: Prior to 2021, the demographic that overwhelmingly included vaccine deniers was Neil Young's political tribe. Find a Whole Foods, and you found deniers of vaccines and medicine and nuclear power. They were all corporate conspiracies.
So there is a certain irony that Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify because they didn't get rid of contrarian pundit Joe Rogan when critics of COVID-19 vaccines use the same language and "precautionary principle" veneer against science Young and his ilk used until this year.
Embracing the science he hated until a year ago means that like a whole lot of partisan people, he only pretends to accept it because the issue is political.
Writing in The Daily Beast, Louis Anslow reminds the public that just a few years ago Young released a whole album devoted to undermining the same biotechnology that is saving the world in 2022. He even named it "
The Monsanto Years" and it was bought by people who think
Science Is A Vast Corporate Conspiracy[1] and still do - unless they can dunk on Republicans about being anti-science... (
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Top Ten Corporate Conspiracies by a believer in the
Illuminati:
https://www.illuminatirex.com/corporate-conspiracies/
Conspirituality is finally getting called out for what it is - anti-science cranks & alternative medicine hucksters
https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/..._hucksters
EXCERPTS: Last year, when CNN journalist Chris Cuomo was recovering from COVID-19,
he endorsed all sorts of homeopathy and alternatives to medicine. It's no surprise, he is married to an influencer who just happens to sell those placebos to other wealthy, white elites. He's not alone. A surprising number of celebrities have spouses that promote nonsense.
For decades, the woo market has been mostly wealthy, white Baby Boomers who believe that science, from biotech to medicine, is a vast corporate conspiracy. Their alternative-medicine-practitioner-in chief, President Bill Clinton, not only signed a bad law exempting supplements and potions from real FDA oversight, his re-branded National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine was able to siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money that could have gone to real science and health research.
New Age beliefs that medicine is unnecessary or, worse, harmful, became so prevalent during the Obama years it even got its own name -
conspirituality. They believe that Ancient Wisdom holds all the answers and some mysterious force can be harnessed, kind of like The Force in "Star Wars" before George Lucas flipped it from being a universal energy to those blessed with particular genes. All that is holding it back is corporations lobbying government to suppress herbs and crystals ... because Big Pharma can't control those.
Even "Rolling Stone", arguably the official magazine of aging Baby Boomers, is on Team Science these days.
They call out Kimberly Van Der Beek... [...] California, the US home of the anti-vaccine movement ... And every other progressive anti-science fad of the last 10 years...
[...] She claimed, while COVID-19 vaccines were in development, that she had a family history of medical issues with vaccines when she was promoting another
conspirituality advocate that sold nonsense like colloidal silver... (
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