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Dasus@lemmy.world 2 days agobut a fairly well known microbiologist
Holy shit I’m worried for (what I assume are American) scientific circles.
Idk why she’d forgo the actual medical treatments. Did she consider them risky or what?
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Scientific rigor in one aspect of life does not preclude magical thinking in another. Sadly.
Healthy skepticism is a lifestyle.
She’s always been a believer in magical nonsense. My dad is a hardcore Catholic… to the point where he had to make sure there was a church nearby when he want on vacations around the world, which they did quite frequently. My mother is an irreligious Jew who believes in ANY kind of woo based bullshit she stumbles across. Astrology, psychic healing, seeing auras, channeling. All of the major bullshit that came to prominence in the new age movement (thanks Ms Blavatsky).
As such, I believe in nothing of the metaphysical nor spiritual. It’s all copium against the glory of our universe that cares nothing for our existence.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe it’s a societal difference, but genuinely the women I know in STEM fields would perhaps do something like that as a funny bit of entertainment, but never to the level of denying surgery from a child.