Considering that Big Pharma makes fuck-all profits on its vaccines, it’s already the stoopidest conspiracy theory on record. Their profits come from meds that people need to take every day, for the rest of their lives, not from a once-in-a-lifetime inoculation. Fuck, there’s not even money in antibiotics any more,…

its not that autism is more common- its that we opened up the diagnosis a lot and now kids who would have in the past been called “mentally slow” or just anti-social and different are now recognized as autistic. so It seems like there are more incidences when in fact there always was this many people with Autism,…

I love a good conspiracy theory, but I just can’t buy into the Big Pharma one for this very reason. It suggests that EVERY SINGLE. scientist ALL OVER THE WORLD is in the pockets of Big Pharma. I just don’t buy that. There are too many of them. And too many of them (dare I say... most of them?) are genuinely trying to…

As a scientist this is false, we’re all paid by the taxpayers - and not really all that much at all.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Oh really? Surely you jest.

I think it’s called willful ignorance.

Corporations are not bound by democracy. It’s called capitalism.

No, no one is forcing you to eat unlabeled food — but the corporations are under no obligation to bow to the will of the people in the name of pseudoscience.

Not when it’s dumb and feeds into misinformation and hysteria, no.

You have gotten a baffling amount of hate on this thread. I just wanted to say, as a highly educated medical professional who is also over 40 and in need of serious skin help, I LOVE my medical aesthetician SO MUCH. She has transformed my skin in the past few years with Limelight, Clear+Brilliant, and micro-needling.…

Commenters on Jez get a bad wrap but goddammit when we show up to a fight, we come prepared. Well done.

I’ve been a med spa RN for 7 years. The vast, vast majority of people in the med spa field (aestheticians, primarily) spout woo all day long. The company reps sell smelly chemicals and a script about how it reverses aging and has antioxidants and “works like a topical botox” etc, etc. By and large, it is not a science…

I think the word for that stateside is “beautician."

You should definitely file a complaint... At the end of your time in her class. Until then I would probably suffer through if the course is nessecary for your degree.

Huh. That makes it sound awfully, well, MEDICAL. It sounds more like a person who gives facials, with a couple of lasers to make it extra fancy.

Funny, bc that term has never been used where I live. A facialist might be considered that.

Please, please, this person who spent a couple weeks of med school shadowing a coroner needs you to ask her if she’s ever smelled a body that’s been sitting for a few weeks. “Sweet” isn’t the word that jumps to mind first. (Granted, maybe everyone we found went to hell.)

Are medical aesthetics when your doctor says “I don’t like the looks of that” during an examination?

Only nurses and doctors can administer botox and injectables.