<story><title>Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific &quot;wellness&quot; products</title><url>https://qz.com/1010684/all-the-wellness-products-american-love-to-buy-are-sold-on-both-infowars-and-goop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roughly</author><text>The anti-authority&amp;#x2F;anti-expert theme in American politics isn&amp;#x27;t a left or right phenomenon. There&amp;#x27;s a fundamental breakdown in institutional trust within American society which is present on both sides, and the similar approaches to wellness are a vivid expression of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EA-3167</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s more than a coincidence that we see this &amp;quot;anti-expert&amp;quot; ideology concentrated at the two political poles. For either the far left or right, it&amp;#x27;s important to reject evidence that doesn&amp;#x27;t conform to ideology, and eventually the way to do that is to reject authority that isn&amp;#x27;t your own. They don&amp;#x27;t want to be &lt;i&gt;subject&lt;/i&gt; to authority, they want to be &lt;i&gt;be&lt;/i&gt; the unquestioned authority.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if the topic is far beyond them, what matters is that they have an answer and that answer reinforces their biases. Reality is the enemy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific &quot;wellness&quot; products</title><url>https://qz.com/1010684/all-the-wellness-products-american-love-to-buy-are-sold-on-both-infowars-and-goop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roughly</author><text>The anti-authority&amp;#x2F;anti-expert theme in American politics isn&amp;#x27;t a left or right phenomenon. There&amp;#x27;s a fundamental breakdown in institutional trust within American society which is present on both sides, and the similar approaches to wellness are a vivid expression of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s definitely an observed political dimension to alternative medicine camps; in other words there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a big &amp;quot;left vs right&amp;quot; phenomena that&amp;#x27;s worth observing. But what we might really be seeing is young vs old in the willingness to consider alternative medicine.&lt;p&gt;After all, why should young healthy people spend so much time thinking about rejecting mainstream medicine?</text></comment>