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The National Institutes of Health hired an activist who claims:
-obesity doesn't cause poor health
-safe weight loss isn't possible
-poor outcomes for obese people are caused by fatphobia, and anti-fat bais
America's largest Health organization is captured by activists/🧵
The National Institutes of Health hired an activist who claims:
-obesity doesn't cause poor health
-safe weight loss isn't possible
-poor outcomes for obese people are caused by fatphobia, and anti-fat bais
America's largest Health organization is captured by activists/🧵
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These ideas come out of an academic field called "Fat Studies," which has it's own academic journals. The ideas from Fat Studies come almost entirely out of Critical theory and Postmodernism.
Those who work in Fat Studies call themselves "Fat Scholars" and "Fat Activists."
These ideas come out of an academic field called "Fat Studies," which has it's own academic journals. The ideas from Fat Studies come almost entirely out of Critical theory and Postmodernism.
Those who work in Fat Studies call themselves "Fat Scholars" and "Fat Activists."
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Fat Studies is postmodern, and as such is accepts the postmodern idea objective absolute, universal truth does not exist.
Postmodernism says all truth claims are socially constructed, and are thus polluted by the biases, interests, and agenda's of the people who created them.
Fat Studies is postmodern, and as such is accepts the postmodern idea objective absolute, universal truth does not exist.
Postmodernism says all truth claims are socially constructed, and are thus polluted by the biases, interests, and agenda's of the people who created them.
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Postmodern thinker believe every claim reflects the values, interests, prejudices, and biases of the people who made that truth claim, and for that reason truth claims are not objective propositions that accurately reflect reality, they are subjective claims disguised as fact
Postmodern thinker believe every claim reflects the values, interests, prejudices, and biases of the people who made that truth claim, and for that reason truth claims are not objective propositions that accurately reflect reality, they are subjective claims disguised as fact
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For this reason, postmodern thinkers reject the idea that science produces objective facts. They instead believe that health science "privileges" thinness, so health tests, experiments, and studies are systemically biased and prejudieced against fat people.
For this reason, postmodern thinkers reject the idea that science produces objective facts. They instead believe that health science "privileges" thinness, so health tests, experiments, and studies are systemically biased and prejudieced against fat people.
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This means someone at the NIH used science rejecting arguments from "Fat Studies" to tell people that obesity is not harmful, that safe weightloss is not possible, and that poor health outcomes for obese people are the fault of stigma and bias, not the result of obesity itself
This means someone at the NIH used science rejecting arguments from "Fat Studies" to tell people that obesity is not harmful, that safe weightloss is not possible, and that poor health outcomes for obese people are the fault of stigma and bias, not the result of obesity itself
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And here is the big point:
The article was written by Erin Foxworthy - A woman with no scientific training, who has a BA in Religious Studies and who had worked in the St. Mary's College of Maryland Gender and Sexuality Studies Department as a Peer-Mentor.
That means...
And here is the big point:
The article was written by Erin Foxworthy - A woman with no scientific training, who has a BA in Religious Studies and who had worked in the St. Mary's College of Maryland Gender and Sexuality Studies Department as a Peer-Mentor.
That means...
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An activist trained in Social Justice academic fields Hijacked the DEI blog at the National Institutes for **HEALTH** and used it to undermine science, tell people losing weight safely is impossible, and claim poor health outcomes for obesity are caused by anti-fat bias.
An activist trained in Social Justice academic fields Hijacked the DEI blog at the National Institutes for **HEALTH** and used it to undermine science, tell people losing weight safely is impossible, and claim poor health outcomes for obesity are caused by anti-fat bias.
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This is what we are talking about when we talk about government institutions and agencies getting hijacked by activists.
A Social Justice/woke activist hijacked the NIH blog and undermined trust in well established science in order to advance her "Social Justice" ideology.
This is what we are talking about when we talk about government institutions and agencies getting hijacked by activists.
A Social Justice/woke activist hijacked the NIH blog and undermined trust in well established science in order to advance her "Social Justice" ideology.
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This sort of thing is happening all over the U.S. Government.
Critical Social Justice/woke activists are taking up positions in the government, redirecting government resources away from their mission, and using government institutions as vehicles for advancing woke ideology
This sort of thing is happening all over the U.S. Government.
Critical Social Justice/woke activists are taking up positions in the government, redirecting government resources away from their mission, and using government institutions as vehicles for advancing woke ideology
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This undermines trust in the government, institutional trust, trust in science, and takes resources from important goals and ideals of American society.
Hijacking government institutions for ideological ends is a subversion of democracy and needs to be stopped.
/fin
This undermines trust in the government, institutional trust, trust in science, and takes resources from important goals and ideals of American society.
Hijacking government institutions for ideological ends is a subversion of democracy and needs to be stopped.
/fin
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