The German health minister finally had the nerve to suggest that health insurance should stop paying for homeopathic remedies (because it’s a two hundred year old grift) and people got really upset.
As we know, capital co-opts everything, especially criticisms of capital.
Homeopathy went out of favour once germ theory was established. From what I gather it was more or less dormant for a hundred years, then came back with the 1960s/70s counterculture movement and scepticism of modern pharmaceuticals. From then on it was turned into a huge (grift) industry of its own.
Germans also love anthroposophic remedies, which originated from a guy who would have been a Nazi had he only lived a bit longer.
Because people don’t trust the pharmaceutical industry. Whether they’re right to is a different conversation but the starting point is that they just don’t.
The German health minister finally had the nerve to suggest that health insurance should stop paying for homeopathic remedies (because it’s a two hundred year old grift) and people got really upset.
Insanity. How is this scam still a thing in the 21st century?!
As we know, capital co-opts everything, especially criticisms of capital.
Homeopathy went out of favour once germ theory was established. From what I gather it was more or less dormant for a hundred years, then came back with the 1960s/70s counterculture movement and scepticism of modern pharmaceuticals. From then on it was turned into a huge (grift) industry of its own.
Germans also love anthroposophic remedies, which originated from a guy who would have been a Nazi had he only lived a bit longer.
Because people don’t trust the pharmaceutical industry. Whether they’re right to is a different conversation but the starting point is that they just don’t.