Jenka
@jenka.bsky.social
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• Healthcare philosopher
• Essayist
📍Mojave Desert
https://jenka.substack.com
I think culture is another huge part of the theme here, in fact. How ideology ALWAYS drives what people are meant to believe is the "science" of their time and place. bsky.app/profile/jenk...
3,000+ biologists were dismissed, imprisoned, or executed in the Soviet campaign to suppress scientific opponents. Soviet genetics research was effectively destroyed. Research and teaching in the fields of neurophysiology, cell biology, and many other biological disciplines were harmed or banned.
Lysenkoism - Wikipedia
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November 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I think culture is another huge part of the theme here, in fact. How ideology ALWAYS drives what people are meant to believe is the "science" of their time and place. bsky.app/profile/jenk...
Yeah, but ego can be completely inseparable from what is just the culture's worldview. I am reminded of how when anthropologists 1st began interviewing Native Americans in the 1800s they only talked to the men, & only got half the history because they didn't conceive of women being history bearers.
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Yeah, but ego can be completely inseparable from what is just the culture's worldview. I am reminded of how when anthropologists 1st began interviewing Native Americans in the 1800s they only talked to the men, & only got half the history because they didn't conceive of women being history bearers.
It's hard to really wrap one's hands around exactly what the subject / theme is here. It's something about how medicine rejects science, and how both are conducted through the lens of human bias. And the relationship between that and rejection of epistemology in general. Like what is that?
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
It's hard to really wrap one's hands around exactly what the subject / theme is here. It's something about how medicine rejects science, and how both are conducted through the lens of human bias. And the relationship between that and rejection of epistemology in general. Like what is that?
Surely not, Dr. Semmelweis! A gentleman doctor's hands are clean!
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Surely not, Dr. Semmelweis! A gentleman doctor's hands are clean!
This thread is a whole book that surely someone has written already.
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
This thread is a whole book that surely someone has written already.
And of course. bsky.app/profile/jenk...
Who could forget such CDC hits as retracting that COVID is airborne or publishing indoor ventilation guidance the day after the end of the public health emergency order so that they would serve no purpose at all. Anyway, AIDS activist would like a word.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
And of course. bsky.app/profile/jenk...
As is the science. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
Opinion | The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
As is the science. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
And I forget the specific number, but doctors need to read or hear something multiple times for it to have the same impact as another doctor saying it once. Because haha medicine is delivered by bias machines.
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
And I forget the specific number, but doctors need to read or hear something multiple times for it to have the same impact as another doctor saying it once. Because haha medicine is delivered by bias machines.
Oh, and not to woke you out or anything but it takes an average of SEVENTEEN YEARS for scientific evidence to wind up in you're doctor's medical practice.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37018006/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37018006/
It Takes an Average of 17 Years for Evidence to Change Practice-the Burgeoning Field of Implementation Science Seeks to Speed Things Up - PubMed
It Takes an Average of 17 Years for Evidence to Change Practice-the Burgeoning Field of Implementation Science Seeks to Speed Things Up
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Oh, and not to woke you out or anything but it takes an average of SEVENTEEN YEARS for scientific evidence to wind up in you're doctor's medical practice.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37018006/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37018006/
But isn't it pretty to think so.
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
But isn't it pretty to think so.
The thing about "woke" and about "woo" and about "science" and about "medicine" is that the delivery mechanism for ALL of them is HUMANS. Whose brains are wired for biases. There's no conflict here.
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The thing about "woke" and about "woo" and about "science" and about "medicine" is that the delivery mechanism for ALL of them is HUMANS. Whose brains are wired for biases. There's no conflict here.
We've BARELY just begun to figure it that schizophrenia can actually be an autoimmune disorder. That EBV triggers Lupus and Multiple Sclerosis.
Telling most DOCTORS the SCIENCE that viruses cause neurological disorders is "alternative" TO-DAY.
Telling most DOCTORS the SCIENCE that viruses cause neurological disorders is "alternative" TO-DAY.
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
We've BARELY just begun to figure it that schizophrenia can actually be an autoimmune disorder. That EBV triggers Lupus and Multiple Sclerosis.
Telling most DOCTORS the SCIENCE that viruses cause neurological disorders is "alternative" TO-DAY.
Telling most DOCTORS the SCIENCE that viruses cause neurological disorders is "alternative" TO-DAY.
Until the 1990s babies were routinely operated on w/out anesthesia because the medical establishment believed babies dont feel pain. Homosexuality was a mental disorder in the DSM until 1987. Hysteria until 1980. But surely *modern* medicine isn't failing any vulnerable group anymore now.
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Until the 1990s babies were routinely operated on w/out anesthesia because the medical establishment believed babies dont feel pain. Homosexuality was a mental disorder in the DSM until 1987. Hysteria until 1980. But surely *modern* medicine isn't failing any vulnerable group anymore now.
Everything is very simple and reductive if you want it to be.
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Everything is very simple and reductive if you want it to be.
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These people don’t know how to build things, just destroy.
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
These people don’t know how to build things, just destroy.