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A.k.a. The Rev
With great ignorance comes great arrogance,
and with regard to health and lifestyle issues few groups demonstrate the
effect more spectacularly as the hive of conspiracy mongering, scientific illiteracy,
critical thinking failure and delusional confidence that is the Thinking Moms Revolution.
The website offers advice on all sorts of health-related issues based on
information from crackpot sites like GreenMedInfo,
Mercola,
NaturalNews and a range of anti-vaxx sites, as well as nonsense conjured up by their own
powers of intuition. No, seriously.
This is an anti-vaccine group, and although their Manifesto states that “[w]hen it comes to helping others, Thinking
Moms are short on opinion, strong on scientific data, medical facts,
nutritional healing options and documented legislative history,” their “scientific data” bears approximately the
same relation to scientific data as their mental processes bear to thinking.
Lisa Goes’s is the author of their manifesto,
which pretty explicitly endorses a strategy of never questioning any
crackpottery or woo no matter how ridiculous it might be – as opposed to
anything promoted by Big Pharma or backed by evidence, of course – including homeopathy and energy medicine.
Goes is also a hardcore and notoriously clueless anti-vaccinationist and has contributed to Age of Autism,
where she has been pushing familiar autism biomed nonsense.
Indeed, her involvement in the anti-vaccine movement is far more insidious even
than that: Goes was, for instance, pretty heavily involved in pushing Alex
Spourdalakis as a cause célèbre for Age of Autism and their crackpottery,
and against what they initially saw as the evils of Big Pharma (which it wasn’t);
more details here.
Diagnosis: No, thinking
doesn’t have much to do with Lisa Goes’s antics. Not a person you should
listen to under any circumstance.
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