What is it about the ultra-right-wing culture in the USA that eschews science (rooted in the search for God’s Laws of the universe*) and embraces alternative medicine’s mysticism and magic (rooted in pagan practices)?#
The lack of sleep, overworked adrenal gland, etc. sounds like hyperadrenocorticism or Cushings syndrome. Then again, IANAD, I just learned a tiny bit about it when the veterinarian suggested my wife’s dog might have it. It’s supposedly treatable with western medicine.
–G!
*I suggested this to a history professor eons ago. She said I could be right, but it was a really super-abstract connection that would be hard to solidify with research.
$Kind of the converse of the argument above. I tossed it at a JW Naturopathy student who responded by turning pale and walking away looking perplexed. I have no idea if it’s true, but it was an argument (cheap shot) that scored. ![]()