Ha! I didn't miss the point. I rejected it. Left wingers are prone to it, too. Whether you see them as "right" or "left" is irrelevant to the actual group and more relevant to *you*. The actual group is "those who buy into snake oil."
On 8/31/21 9:42 AM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > You guys' (guises'?) capacity to miss the point is only equaled by my own. > THE POINT WAS: Does the Krugman article point to an actual group of people > who share the properties of being prone to snake oil pitches, right wing > politics, (and, I would add, revivalist religions), or is this "group" and > invention of Krugman's imagination. This relates to a long standing > discussion we have been having about abduction. Do we get, on the basis of > one data point (right wing asshole ness OR snake oil vulnerability) to > predict snake oil vuilnerability, on the one hand, or right-wing asshole ness > on the other. Is there a THERE there. > > Nick > > Nick Thompson > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 10:31 AM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Liberal "othering" or statement of fact? > > I don't want to be a "both sides" person. But there's plenty of that on the > left, too. I suppose it's for products like Paltrow's: https://goop.com/ Or > reiki. Or crystals. Snake oil is non-partisan. > > One thing that's a toss-up for me is the NCCIH: https://www.nccih.nih.gov/ On > the one hand, I'm an integrationist ... and my contrariness demands I respect > *complementary*. But some of the stuff they support research into looks like > hogwash to me. I try to keep an open mind, though. > > On 8/31/21 7:09 AM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: >> *//*So saith Paul Krugman: >> >> >> >> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supple >> ments.html >> <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-suppl >> ements.html> >> >> Once you’re sensitized to the link between snake oil and right-wing >> politics, you realize that it’s pervasive. >> >> This is clearly true in the right’s fever swamps. Alex Jones of Infowars has >> built a following by pushing conspiracy theories, but he makes money by >> selling nutritional supplements >> <https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html>. >> It’s also true, however, for more mainstream, establishment parts of the >> right. For example, Ben Shapiro, considered an intellectual on the right, >> hawks supplements.Look at who advertises >> <https://tvrev.com/whos-still-advertising-with-tucker-carlson-at-the-end-of-q2-2021/> >> on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. After Fox itself, the top advertisers >> are My Pillow, then three supplement companies.Snake oil peddlers, clearly, >> find consumers of right-wing news and punditry a valuable market for their >> wares. So it shouldn’t be surprising to find many right-leaning Americans >> ready to see vaccination as a liberal plot and turn to dubious alternatives >> — although, again, I didn’t see livestock dewormer coming. >> -- ☤>$ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
