Thursday, June 4, 2020

The conspirituality of Zach Bush and JP Sears

With Derek Beres, Matthew Remski and Julian Walker. The blurb:

"Earnest Truther, Funny-Man Truther To the layperson, Dr. Zach Bush's vision of a resurrected microbiome as being the answer to modern illnesses sounds appealing. His basic argument: we've been weeding ourselves to death, externally and internally, depleting the biodiversity of our soils and bodies. He seems to have done typical clinical work (in mostly private settings) in internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care. But with no publications or experience with epidemiology, why is he being tapped by anti-vaxx activists to speak on COVID-19? Perhaps because when he runs up against the limit of his knowledge, he offers spiritual sermons. J.P. Sears does something similar, though from a different direction, without being signal-boosted by anti-vaxxers. Sears's deeper colors show when he reaches the limits of his satire: he's a life coach medical libertarian who’s willing to cherry-pick data and mock concerns about the immunocompromised in support of...we're not quite sure."

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