Originally published at: Laugh or cry at the worst medical takes ever put to text | Boing Boing
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On the microblogging site formerly known as Twitter?
Pass.
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I read through some of that stuff and I feel like I just lost about twenty IQ points.
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The stupid.
It burns.
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“Tactical coconut oil”. 
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Or if you don’t want to support the racism site, Bad Medical Takes (@badmedicaltakes@med-mastodon.com) - Med-Mastodon
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Why are they arguing about periods? I am vaguely familiar with the other ones (bla bla ‘lemon is an alkaline’), but what are the front lines in the periods argument?
I have definitely reached my capacity for these kinds of things though.
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They don’t seem to be actually cross-posting content there.
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ugh
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Yeah it seems like they made that account just to reserve the name if they ever decided to abandon Xitter, which they haven’t yet.
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These barely even qualify as “bad medical takes”.
It’s not like doctors are saying these things or retrospectives on how lobotomies used to be considered a cure-all, or that bad humors cause disease. It’s just ignorant people saying ignorant things.
I mean, haven’t we heard enough of this with people’s misinformed opinions on COVID, vaccines, abortion, gender affirming care, masking, and such? Do we really need more of this?
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A tactical coconut, OTOH, could be a thing. Two would be better, one up each side of your assailant’s head. Definitely everyone should be carrying two coconuts at all times.
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Ideally, all warfare should be conducted by utilizing coconuts in the form most fitting the culinary combat arts:
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Per the style manual Elmo’s site is “Xitter”, until he sells it.
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Those are transportation coconuts. They are commonly mixed up with the tactical ones.
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Yeah, I had to stop about 10 deep. They’re just wrong on an almost first grade level sometimes.
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Wait, they don’t go into CON? Oh dear. [Secretly chuffed his magic resistance might be higher.]
