30 People Who Decided To Spread Their Medical ‘Knowledge’ Online And Got Shamed For It (New Pics)
When we go to see a doctor, we can rest assured knowing that they are qualified to be treating illnesses, prescribing medicine and diagnosing diseases. They have completed at least a decade of education after high school and have endured rigorous training and testing to ensure that they know what they’re doing.
When we log onto the internet, however, anyone with a keyboard and an opinion can feel free to spout whatever medical misinformation they like, so we should take everything we read online with a grain of salt. Thankfully, there is one page that’s dedicated to calling out irresponsible and inaccurate medical advice that’s shared online: the Bad Medical Takes Twitter account.
We’ve gathered some of the most ridiculous, hilarious and alarming posts Bad Medical Takes has shared down below, so you too can enjoy hearing all of the wacky ideas ignorant people felt the need to share online. Be sure to upvote the claims you wish were posted satirically, and then let us know in the comments what the worst medical advice you’ve ever received was. And then if you’re interested in another Bored Panda article featuring medical takes that are definitely not doctor approved, you can find our last story on the same Twitter account right here.
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So nobody's ever died in childbirth or from pregnancy complications? Nobody has ended their life from post-partum depression?
Isn’t one of the big causes for death in pregnant people in the US homicide? These Twitter twats forget a lot of risks.
Load More Replies...I think I see the source of the confusion. All these foolish commenters thinking women count as people. Obviously when he says "nobody" he means no men. /s/
That's good news! We can remove the word 'matricide' from the dictionary to free up space for more words meaning 'confidently stupid'.
"Confidently Stupid" needs its own entry in the dictionary! May I use it?
Load More Replies...All the women who died in childbirth were nobody to Robert Vanderstock
My stepmom's sister did and that's how I got a little brother. My parents adopted her baby
Mr. Vanderstock needs to visit some obituaries. Women die in childbirth in 2022. In Europe. In the US. In Canada. In any nation.
United States had the worst maternal mortality rate of any developed nation.
Load More Replies...Both me and my daughter nearly died, she got stuck and I ended up having a life saving cesarean
Shoulder dystocia? I had that with my son... but forceps - we are barbarians still here in the UK! :(
Load More Replies...More like Low Marx, amirite? I'll see myself out...
Load More Replies...In case anyone here is confused, I'll clarify: everyone has a set of chromosomes, it's different between men and women - all women have two X chromosomes, whilst all men have an X chromosome and a Y chromosome. Whilst there are occasional mutations (some men have XXY instead of XY and so on), this is an immutable biological fact. What "High Marx" said was that women don't have the X chromosome, however it's actually the Y chromosome they're missing.
So self-confident to call another a moron. Quality of true idiots.
Everyone has an X chromosome. Now, I forgot what I was taught in biology class, but I’m pretty sure that women have XY chromosomes and men have XX chromosomes.
Super females have triple x, Normally we have 2 but one x remains inactivated🤐
I am an EMT we see it all the time, the worst part is that it is not a quick death. It is insulin rationing leading to chronic high blood sugar leading to kidney failure. It is years of suffering.
I'm a type 1 Diabetic, fortunately I live in the UK so my insulin prescription is free at point of issue, if I lived in the US I'd have died from Hyperglycaemia many, many years ago through no fault of my own as I just would not have been able to afford something that costs very little to manufacture. The greed in the US healthcare* system is absolutely mind boggling to someone used to the NHS and having never had to pay a single penny for a prescription in my life, nor any visits to hospital (or my GP) *LOL US and Healthcare do not go, it's more No care.
my colleague ... another colleague who was her best friend found her dead in her home after she didn't show for work for days. She was a diabetic and had a bad "case" in her sleep and didn't wake up ... But yeah .. impossibru
Worked in property management for years. I was always the one sent to deal with "wellness checks." This is what happened: Stage one of the "Affordable Care Act" kicked in, and many insurance companies took disgusting advantage of the fact they could suddenly deny coverage for many very basic medications. Lots of people unalived in a very short period of time from lack of basic meds, which suddenly had become unaffordable for them here in the us. Insulin is one of those basic meds.
This seems like less of a failure of the ACA, and more a failure of corporate/profit driven insurance companies.
Load More Replies...OH this one makes me mad. My sister is type one, and nearly went into a coma when she was diagnosed because we didn’t know she was diabetic and needed insulin.
Yes, you can go into seizure and coma if your blood glucose gets too high, and can cause some nasty long term affects
Load More Replies...but, think of the dividends! won't someone please think of the shareholder's dividends!!! Big time S/
Wow. Put yourself in the shoes of a diabetic.
Load More Replies...They inadvertently showed how an abortion could’ve kept one more idiot out of our oxygen.
The Bad Medical Takes Twitter account initially launched in March 2020, which I can only assume came in response to all of the misinformation that was rapidly being spread about the COVID-19 virus. When the pandemic began, everyone on the internet suddenly turned into a medical professional, and with billions of desperate people around the world searching for hope and answers, false claims spread like wildfire.
But I can’t put all of the blame for bad medical advice running rampant online on the pandemic. The internet has been saturated with fake news long before 2020, so it only made sense for medical advice to make its way into the same category. But the difference between reading fake news about a politician and being told to shoot bleach into your veins is that the latter is extremely dangerous. So false medical claims deserve to be called out and shut down even more than your run-of-the-mill fake news.
Exhibit A on why men should not be making decisions about women's bodies
Obviously when the man pauses having sex with her! Men-o-pause.
Load More Replies...How f*****g dumb are these f*****g people??? Tha f**k do they teach at those schools?
They dont really teach sex ed in USA anymore. I was taught by someone who had a heath science degree and i still ended up reading " everything you want to know about sex but were afraid to ask". Now, they separate the boys and the girls and teach the girls " keep your legs closed, no one wants a used woman" . They teach the boys abstinance too, but not that it will decrease their value, but that they might catch something. They also teach masturbation is wrong too.
Load More Replies...Good news ladies! According to Heris you no longer have periods after 26! /s
I have an almost 15yo and up until about two and a half months ago, I did..... which leads me to agree with Anonymous. This is why men should not be making decisions about women's bodies......
My daughter was born when I was 28. My last period was 2 years ago when I was 56, and that was because of a hysterectomy .
Load More Replies...Gynecologist had explained that women roughly go through menopause around the same age as their mothers. My mother said she had her last period when she was 62. I remember being in my thirties and saying there is no way in the hell I want that to last that long.. luckily I had my last period at 57. Still roughly around the same general ages of my mother, and my aunt. We don't know when my great-grandmother had hers last, because she never told anybody
I am so glad I went through menopause before 50. Periods were torture for me. Menopausal symptoms were nothing compared to that!
Load More Replies...It's not. They're the type who will never teach their kids about sex. That or they'll teach the high fives for the boys and s**t shaming for the girls way.
Load More Replies...Why do I love this statement? (Yours, not the idiot's)
Load More Replies...Second poster is a complete idiot. You can gain the same effect by abstaining from education.
Anecdotal, but no, you can't. I haven't eaten fast food or processed food in more than a decade. While this has been great for other areas of my health, it hasn't improved my ADHD at all.
It feels peaceful, tranquil and ordered… no bouncing around and forgetfulness… my thoughts felt quiet after my first dose. Second person needs to shut up and p**s off.
Once had a therapist tell me all my problems would be solved if I abstain from all sugars and alcohol. Said it in front of another therapist and a group of clients. Yeah. I abstained from ever seeing him again. Oh yeah. he also wanted me to carry amethyst to improve my life.
Had to teach a first grader whose mother believed this. What fun. And when he was sick, she would give him NyQuil and send him to school! He was NEVER absent and literally would bounce off the walls!
I can’t even care about the stupid response because I identify so hard with the original post. When I finally got medicated for ADHD I was just like “…WTF?! …is THIS what normal is?? Is THIS what it’s like to follow a stream of thought/conversation/flow of events for more than a few seconds? Holy f*£<!” Life changing. It really is.
can confirm having adhd and having adhd pill is te strangest thing ever
like wait you mean you dont have your brain running 2.5 million miles an hour
Load More Replies...I'm gonna try to get the booster later so let's see what happens to the weather in my immediate vicinity. Will update if something weird happens.
Please keep us posted. It's getting chilly in Europe, maybe if we get together, we will be able to turn it back to summer 🙃
Load More Replies...No! They are the only thing that will stop global warming!!!!!
Load More Replies...Actually, we've seen increasing heat waves for... over a decade. So, blame it on the US invasion of Iraq, it's about the same causative value.
It only makes extremely dense people wonder because they are required to wonder really hard about every thought. Trumpers!
You might be wondering how anyone in the world could possibly believe the claims shared on this list in the first place, and I’ll be honest, I’m wondering too. So to try to gain some insight on the topic, I consulted an article from Medical News Today exploring just how these false claims are perceived as credible information. And it turns out that there are certain factors that can cause a person to be more or less susceptible to believing medical misinformation.
One 2021 study found that people with a lower education level and individuals who have less knowledge of healthcare issues are more likely to believe inaccurate medical claims. Also, people who have a lack of trust in the healthcare system are more inclined to view alternative treatments positively and more likely to believe false medical claims. The study also found that participants who believed one false medical claim were likely to fall for even more as well, so perhaps they are just more gullible than the average person.
There's only one person in this exchange who I wouldn't trust not to drool
I'd like to think that, if it was discovered that masks were useless, I'd be able to admit that I'd been wrong all these years. Uncomfortable, sure, but I'd like to think I could do that. But these people who willfully engage in stubborn stupidity...I just don't get it. What do they get out of it?
At least on the off, off, OFF chance that we are wrong, we could be able to say that we did what we thought was best, with the right intentions- to protect others.
Load More Replies...Im sorry why wasnt i told that surgeons get extra oxygen?! time to change jobs
A US hospital would give it to them so they could charge the patient for it.
Load More Replies...So...with that logic, the OR doctor should be able to work on you with no gloves. Just straight from the bathroom, poop hands and all, ya' know since "no protection needed."
Would be great to (legally) equip the doctors with wit replied like this
Load More Replies...The treatment IS simple. It's termination. First, it's not a fetus yet. If it was to that point, she'd be dead from a ruptured fallopian tube. Second, its not in the uterus yet. Third, it cannot be transplanted into the uterus. That's not a thing.
I think I needed this comment for clarity, so thank you
Load More Replies...This guy is a conservative a*s-wipe, who loves to re-tweet BS from the likes of Lauren Boebert. So, there's that. I'd like to add: after a decade of infertility and miscarriage, my second pregnancy was ectopic, which ended up rupturing my fallopian tube. To anyone thinking that situation can be remedied and result in a healthy pregnancy, please pull your head out of your a*s - it can't.
Has he ever heard of the placenta? Does he think it can just be pulled off and stuck somewhere else like velcro?
Oh dear God. That's not leaving my brain anytime soon. Brilliant comment, It just gave me a grotesque visual. Cheers.
Load More Replies...I wonder if this person is entirely confused about what happened to his wife? Or if this is just a complete fiction?
Ectopci has two outcomes: Termination of pregnancy; terminaton of the woman's life, *and*, obviously, the pregnancy.
This whole notion of re-implanting an embryo from an ectopic pregnancy into the uterus IS 👏🏼NOT 👏🏼 AN 👏🏼 ACTUAL 👏🏼 THING! There is no such procedure that is either safe or ethical. Doctors do not do this. Now stop lying, you hairball brained idiots.
I'm about to commit massive butchery to the extension of my central nervous system this afternoon.
Like an antenna? If that's true, why do punk rockers get a bad reception wherever they go?
Is that why Buddhist monks have such looong hair, to heighten their awareness? ... oh wait no, they shave...
Christ how the f**k can these morons be able to breeth and use a Key board at the same time with that brain power......
Well, if they breeth instead of breathing, it may be a clue to why their brains are malfunctioning.
Load More Replies...If you've gotten your covid shot as well, you'll never have bad reception! (Shouldn't have to say this but I'm joking.)
Load More Replies...I get the feeling that this follows a post or is followed by a post selling essential oils.
2 days ago I've cut 15 cm of my nerv extension and I don't know how I got to work this morning. I was falling on people in the metro, felt like a ping pong ball
They've mistaken hair for neurons. but I do not mistake them for being a moron.
Lead author of the study, Dr. Laura D. Scherer of the University of Colorado School of Medicine shed some light on the value of this study’s findings. “Inaccurate information is a barrier to good healthcare because it can discourage people from taking preventive measures to head off illness and make them hesitant to seek care when they get sick,” she explained. “Identifying who is most susceptible to misinformation might lend considerable insight into how such information spreads and provide us with new avenues for intervention.”
That moment when you say “the sun doesn’t cause cancer” and everyone around you stops making eye contact.
Wish this person could have had a chat with my mom. She never used sunscreen either. She passed at 59, due to metastatic malignant melanoma.
Damn. I won't be around to see how golden brown and crispy she's going to get.
No sunscreen around when I was a kid growing up in Australia. My sister and I got so badly sunburnt once our Nan cracked raw eggs on our backs. Those buggas cooked but they took the heat from the burn away. No, we did not eat them, the dog did.
That's the first time I've heard of using eggs as a skin soother for sunburn. My mom used vinegar water. It smelled and we hated it
Load More Replies...Exactly! If food worked he would only need to eat once after all.
Load More Replies...While I am a proponent of healthy eating choices, no, it won't replace medications. I distrust Big Pharma (being an MD does that) but I also rely on it. Guessing this nimrod thinks cabbage soup will fix his epilepsy or undo his erectile dysfunction, of course.
Fact: every European who died of bubonic or pneumonic plague between 1347 and 1720 ate an all-natural diet. Let that sink in!
Yes, and they had immune systems back then as well (for those idiots who think that vaccines aren't necessary because they already have an immune system.)
Load More Replies...Yes, because my epilepsy ceased to exist as soon as I was diagnosed with it.
The booster I mentioned in another comment is planned when I pick up my synthroid. I'll just not get it and let you know how that goes too.
I agree. What about lizard men and moth people
Load More Replies...You can't return to a place you've never been.
Load More Replies...Somebody needs to revisit Biology; because I'm pretty sure humans don't belong to the Plant or Fungi Kingdom.
I don’t know, OP sounds like a mental vegetable…
Load More Replies...I just adore when someone says something so woefully wrong, but with such confidence.
Well, we're not plants, fungi, bacteria, etc. either.
Load More Replies...One of the most notable factors contributing to the spread of medical misinformation online is distrust in the healthcare system, and it might be becoming worse and worse over time. One survey reported that between 2017 and 2018, there was a 20% drop in the amount of trust the American public holds in their healthcare system. And globally, there was a 4% decrease in citizens’ trust in their healthcare systems. When people don’t trust the professionals, they start seeking outside, unverified information, which is likely informed by their own views and biases.
“We have witnessed a concerning shift over the last several decades where policy decisions seem to be driven by ideology and politics instead of facts and evidence,” American Medical Association president Dr. Patrice A. Harris said during a national address. “The result is a growing mistrust in American institutions — in science — and in the counsel of leading experts who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of evidence and reason.”
Why is everyone talking about salts and nobody mentions the bacteria and viruses in ocean water
Right???! We tell our daughter every time we go to the beach that animals live in the ocean, and the trash in it, and the pee.....
Load More Replies...What a horrifically cold entrance into the word, and all that abrasive sand everywhere...
There has been a rise in bacterial infections in very newborn babies, especially the eyes. Most of those babies were born at home, using birthing tubs. Most people buy inflatable kiddie pools, don't clean and sanitize them properly. If they manage that, very few replace the water and sanitize it in the correct intervals. Now imagine all of those problems but at a beach where the only sanitizer is sunlight. Plus salt water in those sensitive little eyes...
I wouldn't give birth there because of the sand, bacteria and creatures that could get on my baby...or in my body...but that's just me...not afraid of the salt
Having given birth myself, I can say with complete conviction you could not pay me to give birth on SAND! Has my vagina not suffered enough?!
And in the waves! The contractions coming in waves are enough waves
Load More Replies...I'm most worried about if there is a complications, she doesn't seem like she is set up for urgent medical intervention! I wanted a water birth but it wasn't available at my hospital. Glad I skipped it...my daughter's cord was around her neck 3 times, I needed an emergency c-section, and she may have died had the NICU doctor not been standing by to treat her when she was delivered. Safety over novelty.
I feel women who do this dramatic stuff think they’re a goddess giving birth. I wonder who they’re trying to impress, because giving birth isn’t an instagram competition. It’s more about them than the safety of their baby. Plus your body often has a different agenda than your mind. I did all the Lamaze and natural childbirth classes, and wanted a drug free birth. Then baby got stuck, I was in back labor, and I started projectile vomiting. I finally agreed to an epidermal, and my baby was born just fine. Pictures like this also make me chuckle because I wonder how glamorous it will look when baby keeps them up all night screaming, poopy diapers, spit up, etc. You know, normal baby behavior.
Load More Replies...No, actually amniotic fluid is saline and has the same salt content as your average ocean.
Load More Replies...Omg, why? Forget all else, bacteria, detritus, etc., whatever . The sand, though?! It takes like 4 showers just to hope to get most sand out of places I didn’t know I had after a normal trip to the beach. Who the hell and why would this ever seem like a good idea? Good frickin grapes. I’m uncomfortable just seeing that image for so many reasons.
He ate soy, he is a girl. Okay I guess we all know I'm trans now. I just love soy milk too much lmao
I like soy milk, too. There, I came out...of the refrigerator. Bah-dumsh.
Load More Replies...It's almost as if some people *need* to be afraid of something, as though stupidity is a warm soft blanket that they gather around them with satisfaction.
Wow Tamra - you managed to make stupidity sound snuggly and tempting! 😲
Load More Replies...Do you think we can just continue switching? Like eat enough of whatever will make me man so I can live like that for a week and then just eat a crapton of soy to be a woman again?
Load More Replies...I just read this to my daughter and she replied: If this person wanted to build a thermometer, she'd go fishing until she caught enough mercury.
Some One DESPERATLY needs byology classes..... News flash you f*****g moron, iff the dude has balls he produces testosterone.
I did ask my grandmother about this years ago. How did they treat the kids back in your day that could not be about peanuts, eggs, and such. She said, "oh honey, they just died".
Modern medicine has allowed compromised individuals to live long and healthy lives. 1,000,000 years ago, this may have been detrimental to the species when there were like 10,000 total beings, but if we can remedy it, we will.
I have a friend who is VERY allergic to peanuts, an ambulance had to come to school last week because she ate something that had been near a peanut. That is the worst post on here (for me; you guys likely have different ones)!!!!!
Another factor that might be exacerbating the issue of false medical claims online is the appetite that social media platforms have for fake news. While social media can be great a tool for sharing news and awareness of social issues, it can also be extremely hard to fact check what is being spread, and the more outlandish a claim is, the faster it will be circulated. In fact, one 2021 study from the NYU School of Global Health found that people who were primarily or exclusively using social media to track pandemic-related information were less likely to be practicing the most up-to-date public health safety practices. And another study from GoodRx found that being exposed to false medical claims online can negatively affect a patient’s health literacy.
Oof. I'm sorry for anyone who has ADHD who has to see nonsense like this. Neurodivergent people have already experienced way too much invalidation in our lives.
F##K YOU, I have ADHD, and I’ll have you know that if an iceberg looks blue, it’s because it’s made of pure glacial ice!😤😝(I really am ADHD btw)
My mom is like this. So in that way I am very much looking forward to tell her in a few weeks that I've been diagnosed with asperger's. I am nearly 40 years old and my mom talks about autism and adhd as if it's something lazy parents label their kids in order to let them roam free and never teach them how to be polite and a lovable person (my mom hates everybody so to her everybody is unlovable persons). Oh, and when my grandma lived and one of her friends got a severe depression she simply could not understand how her friend got so lazy. Because, you know, "depression is just lazy people trying to get away with being lazy". So.... I never told her about my depressions. She wouldn't even look at my cousin when she got treatment for depression. My grandma was super cool and we all loved her to bits.... but she was also very much an a-hole. Sometimes more an a-hole than a loving old woman. She was super complicated, actually.... ok I'll stop this rant. Lol.
I'm sorry that the frog wearing a suit in you profile pic is the classiest thing about you .
as a people with ADHD and who is repeating classes because I didn't manage to focus for my damn whole life, F*ck You you bloody C*nt
If sex without reproduction is unnatural and a phenomenon less than 100 years old, why is prostitution the "oldest profession"?
Guess the contraceptives found used in Ancient Egypt 5,000+ years ago were...?
The Romans used a contraceptive plant so often that they farmed it to extinction.
Load More Replies...Sex without pregnancy occurs more often than not in humans. Just a quick fact check from an MD, versus whoever the f*ck thinks you never had sex without a pregnancy before 1920.
Dear Swarming Shadow, hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaah *gulps breath* hhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
So medieval kings who died without heir simply just didn't do 'it'. Right...
Ouch! Felt that burn from all the way over here!
Load More Replies...There are 150+ known mammalian species who practice homosexual sex. Did they also wait until the 20th century to start?
Thank goodness my broken leg is just a deception made up by dairy farmers!! Silly me thought I actually needed this cast. *circular saw starts up* /s
Lol, brilliant, you sir, or ma'am, are hilarious 👏
Load More Replies...By this point on this thread, I thought "surely there can't be anything dumber". Welp, I was wrong.
What about open fractures??? What is that piece of white that is sticking out of your arm or leg? Dumbass!!
Came here to say something similar! Like I was just imagining the large ivory colored BONE sticking out of my wrist then?! /s
Load More Replies...Inaccurate medical information being circulated online is not only relating to COVID-19 and the vaccines being used to prevent it. Users might find misinformation about anything from smoking and drug use to claims about other vaccines, like the HPV vaccine, causing various health issues. Thankfully, many users don’t actually trust the claims they see, as only 6% of people said they trust information about COVID on social media sites in one survey, but it is still concerning how rapidly these claims spread. In fact, medical misinformation sometimes makes it to 87% of users’ feeds on social media sites. Even if only 5% of these people believe the claims, that could lead to devastating consequences.
Yes. I'll get the flu vax in the other arm from the cov booster just to annoy Nathan in particular.
Thats what I did and this whole 'junkie' thing feels pretty good.
Load More Replies...Hmm then as a diabetic I'm off the chart! 4 needles a day. Anyone know a good detox? Can I use crystals?
Have you tried essential oils? Hun those things can cure EVERYTHING! Asthma? Snort this lavender! Bee sting to the nipple? Here, rub it with "Believe" by [shitty MLM]! Got a really bad case of huddlesnupiritis? Don't worry, daily doses of "Dragon time" by [shitty MLM] has you sorted~ /s
Load More Replies...Heroin addicts don't love needles, they love heroin. Literally in the name
Ha! Literally came to post this exact same thing.
Load More Replies...i think MAGA's are the worst kind of morons because they are ok with children getting gunned down and hate crimes.
Load More Replies...All junkies are just addicts because of their initial love for needles. They don't care about the drugs!
It would be cheaper (and legal) trying acupunture
Load More Replies...So apparently diabetics are junkies too; because it's the needles that are the problem.
So all that time scientists spent working out blood types and they could have just broken it into male and female blood? Thankyou random person on the internet!
If a plant were to get insulin to treat their car's engine problem THEN WHERE WOULD WE BE WITH OUR SPACE PROGRAM??
I can see where this could stem; women produce more antibodies during pregnancy which can make it harder to match with a patient (Source: https://www.blood.co.uk/news-and-campaigns/the-donor/call-for-more-men-to-give-blood/). But making a statement like this without a source or even proper clarification is wrong and can be dangerous.
Is anyone else getting tempted to follow these people so you can troll them
The sad part, there are idiotic people out there reading this nodding their heads because it is just slightly more fanatically anti LGBTQ then they already are and now they will believe this horseshit if it ever can affect a decision they make or person they meet. This is how you radicalize the "christian" right.
Why don't you just listen to the ultimate expert dr Malhotra? They can't and they don't.
Load More Replies...I have a heart condition that if the symptoms/problem doesn't stop after 6 hours, I have to go to the hospital, get this medicine adenosine which literally stop# my heart while I'm concourse. Had to have it done twice in about a 30 min timeframe. Without it my heart legitimately can/will completely stop, killing me. I'm 29 years old. But yeah bro, you're totally right, I'm probably just having hysterical fits with made up diagnoses from multiple doctors, for attention and clout. You totally got me, and saw through all my lies!!!! 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 ]You're quite possibly the absolute largest f*****g idiot, you sick f**k.
EDIT: Stops my heart while I'm conscious-whoops!
Load More Replies...Yea.... Tell that to the 2 twenty something year old football players that had heart attacks live on the frikking pitch these last years, One died ( from the Portuguese team Benfica, i forgot his name ) the other player i belived recovered.
Yeah, they do. High school athletes can. Whether substance abuse (including doping) is involved, or they just run outta luck, or have a specific heart rhythm issue... they die. A neighbor who was in his early 40s, ate well, athletic, great "numbers" on his bloodwork... dropped from the Widowmaker while jogging. We're chemistry experiments waiting to go "fizzle-splat*.
Apparently they have no idea what a heart attack is. The heart itself isn't the issue. It's a lack of blood flow to the arteries that cause damage to the heart. Enough damage, the heart stops.
The confusion here is the common misuse of the term heart attack instead of cardiac arrest. They are not the same thing. The media often confuse the terms. Young athletic people needing resuscitation i.e. footballers during a game are typically having a cardiac arrest due to structural or genetic changes to their hearts leading to life-threatening arrhythmia (these are often triggered by strenuous exertion). A heart attack is a myocardial infarction caused by blockage or plaque rupture of a coronary artery.
In the last 5 years two 18yr olds died in my country, because they catched an infection and needed to take meds. They thought they beat the disease and went to training. In both cases they had an inflammation of their heart muscle, because their bodies still fought the disease. Both were aspiring football (soccer) players.
Load More Replies...Heart attacks can happen at any age. A heart attack in a fit young woman is likely to be the deadliest of all because symptoms are often missed/dismissed in the fit, the young, and the female.
So what are public health agencies supposed to do to limit the spread of false claims online? Is it their responsibility to monitor social media? Well, it’s a delicate issue. “Social media can also be volatile: false information, sometimes maliciously created, spreads rapidly,” the Frontiers in Public Health authors wrote. “Thus, measures to counter misinformation and disinformation on social media channels during an emergency are necessary. Given that government censorship can deeply aggravate already existing mistrust, measures other than content removal is needed, as the public shares and reacts positively to factual information, especially if posted by public health agencies.”
Oh my God, this person deserves to be locked in a cage with two male primates and rubbed with estrogen, just to see what kind of offspring they would produce.
People like this make me angry. They make me say angry things like; I hope their microwave dinner is cold in the middle. I hope their egg yolks go hard while they are waiting for toast. We would have flying cars and stuff by now if it wasn't for a$$hats like this diluting the gene pool. SMH
don't we also share like 90% dna with a banana? I'll identify as a banana from now on ^^
You will still need a banana for scale. (Love this BP running joke ;-)
Load More Replies...Humans are 100% primate though. What are these babies? what is this other 5%?! Alien? Reptilian? Celestial beings? We must solve this puzzle.
The username having a gun brand in it tells you all you need to know...
sometimes i wonder how these people come up with such creative ways to be dumb
Gay Incarnates, get in, we're going to go look at some Halloween merch.
So...if you incarnate too many times as a man, does you become a gay man or a gay woman? What about trans people? So many questions...
Do any of you know what “stupid” is? It’s when you incarnate too many times as a genius, and use up all your intelligence. So have some respect, that idiot you’re so smugly insulting may have been Einstein once! 🤪
Imagine just 5% more people to start washing hands 🤯
Load More Replies...It would work out to be 48%, assuming an equal number of men and women
And that they go to the bathroom equally often.
Load More Replies...In 2021, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory on medical misinformation, calling for actual healthcare professionals to use their own social media platforms to cut through the false claims and spread truth online. He also asked that healthcare agencies partner with trusted community members like church leaders and clinicians to make sure that the public hears accurate information from people they trust. He also noted that this issue cannot be solved overnight. Combatting medical misinformation online will be a long-term effort, so hopefully, over time, the public’s health literacy will be increased. And false claims online will become a thing of the past.
It's a click bait headline. To be fair on this one, the author (a doctor) is in favor of low cost insulin and the title is misleading. The gist of the article "Because insulin prices and efficacy levels are decreasing, doctors are forced daily to decide between the best medication for our patients and the medication that our patients can afford," Dr. Rose wrote.
I was surprised to see such a headline from The Atlantic. Thanks for clarifying.
Load More Replies...Makes no sense. People are dying now. Exactly what are these "newer, better treatments" that apparently don't involve insulin? I'm sure they'll be even more affordable than insulin is now, right?
Metformin. Metformin is usually the first medicine used to treat type 2 diabetes. ... SGLT2 inhibitors. ... GLP-1 agonists. ... Sulphonylureas. ... Pioglitazone. ... Gliptins (DPP-4 inhibitors) ... These are the current excellent treatrments for type 2 diabetes. Type 1 is insulin only.
Load More Replies...My partner is type 1, therefore there is no charge here in the UK..
By us (Slovakia) average price is 50€. Approx 30€ is paid by health insurance (it is mandatory to have here) and for the rest pay the person. So yes, we can say that insulin is cheap here and save lifes.
Here (Norway) the total copay for all health treatment including prescription medicine is NOK 2900 (€ 280). Insulin and cancer treatment isn't include in this and is free from first dose.
Load More Replies...Actually, insulin is the 'second (or last) line' of treatment for type 2 diabetes. The main ones - tablets - try to stimulate the pancreas to make more natural insulin. Once you start giving/taking insulin in the longer term, the pancreas packs up completely, and you have a 'worse' variation. Taking metformin (plus other similar meds) plus diet and exercise, is far more likely to keep you stable and stave off the nasty complications than insulin. In the US, I understand that ALL diabetes treatments are expensive, but in the UK 56 x 500mg metformin tablets are £13.99. If you have cheap insulin but expensive metformin, people will not learn to manage the diabetes and yes, are more likely to die. So, strongly disagree. I quote from the actual article "But for the 90 percent of Americans with diabetes who have type 2, it should not routinely be the first-, second-, or even third-line treatment. The reasons for this are many:" etc
But for those of us with Type 1, or Type 2 that has progressed to the point that their pancreas can no longer supply the same amount of insulin that their body needs, Insulin is currently the ONLY way we can stay alive, without giving ourselves Insulin, either by multiple daily injections or via a continuous insulin pump, we WILL either end up in Hospital with a a condition known as Diabetic Ketoacidosis (really painful and can cause permanent damage as it turns the blood acidic) or we will die, neither option is something we want.
Load More Replies...Newer, better treatments than insulin? Type 1 diabetics literally need insulin to continue living.
This doesn't belong here. I've read the article and he has a good point. There are better treatments coming. We need to focus on making those affordable too or many people on insulin will be left behind with what will soon be considered substandard treatment for them. If you want more info read the article. Also Peter Attia MD has a great podcast The Drive that hits on this topic with active research scientists quite often in molecular detail. I'm really surprised that there are so many commenters on Bored Panda bashing this without looking into it at least a little bit, usually this group is pretty well educated, but there's a lot to learn about out there. It's exciting to think there may be better things coming for these patients.
I agree that the article is being misrepresented. But the real issue is that whatever medication is the best one for a person's type of diabetes should be affordable, regardless of whether it is insulin or a newer medication.
Load More Replies...This article was about people with type 2 diabetes who are not insulin dependent (witch is technically most people with "diabetes".) The argument is by making insulin cheaper people who have other, sometimes better drug options will be more likely to be just prescribe insulin. Its my understanding that people who are type 2 are at higher risk of adverse side effects that type 1. Type 1 diabetics need insulin to survive and the rationing of insulin has killed a lot of people. But the the article writer was arguing that b/c significantly more people have type 2 over type 1 more people overall could die. What is not address is the core issue, Dr.s prescribing the most affordable drug, is b/c US pharmaceutical companies are allowed to charge astronomically high prices for meds that cost pennies to make for huge mark ups.
Like people that try to write something professionally and use a thousand commas.
Load More Replies...Another example of deliberate misinformation that is not only stupid, but dangerous, possibly even lethal.
Everybody who jeered at any African who believed that sex with a virgin would cure AIDS, come and look at this please
There's millions of Africans who would like to tell them how stupid that is but unfortunately they died of heterosexually transmitted HIV/AIDS so they can't
In the UK the biggest rise in HIV infections is in the older heterosexual community. Virtually non-existent in the gay community now
Literally the most HIV infected demographic are heterosexual women, smh
We really need to start a conversation about compulsively neutoring some people.... ( Pardon the misspell )
He's no more in danger of getting a STD than he is in having intercourse.
Load More Replies...Don't worry, survival of the fittest. An anvil is going to land on his head.
Ah, no, you're thinking of one of those substandard mannequins for drawing references.
especially if you're talking about "Far and Away" Nicole
Load More Replies...“Bra level” that’s a unit of measurement now. I’m building a table. Asked my wife how tall she wanted it. She said 30 inches. I said “oh, you mean a fraction of a bra?”
When did bras replace bananas for measuring???
Load More Replies...Kid is a name for a baby goat. So not sheep they are just KIDding you.
Load More Replies...Huh, according to this, I'm a biological male. I can't wait to tell the three kids who came out of my vajayjay.
If you're not in the medical field, I hope you are getting a kick out of these ridiculous claims, and if you are a healthcare professional, I just want to apologize on behalf of the general public. I promise we don't all think this way. Keep upvoting the posts that you find most hilarious and facepalm-worthy, and then let us know in the comments what the worst medical take you've ever heard was. And if you're interested in laughing at even more horrible medical advice, don't forget to check out our last article on the same topic right here.
A bath or shower might be a more sanitary and fragrant alternative, Chad.
This is a trend on TikTok to try to trick people, I can say in confidence it is 100% satire
Load More Replies...This is a trend on TikTok to try to trick people, I can say in confidence it is 100% satire
Load More Replies...I bet its a pain in the a*s lol. I'l ser myself out thanks.
Load More Replies...So, the phrase "Where the sun don't shine", doesn't apply to these people :D
guys suddenly for the first time in my life I feel bad for the sun
Maybe I should just crack my chest open, I'm pretty certain my heart has never seen the sun, I mean it can only do it good amirite?
After an hour inn the sun, these two will be walking like John Wayne...
Full spectrum *mitochondria*. Oh for the love of all that's sane, someone make it stop!
Extract from Wikipedia : Hexagonal water, also known as gel water, structured water, cluster water, H3O2 or H3O2 is a term used in a marketing scam that claims the ability to create a certain configuration of water that is better for the body. The term "hexagonal water" refers to a cluster of water molecules forming a hexagonal shape that supposedly enhances nutrient absorption, removes metabolic wastes, and enhances cellular communication, among other things. The scam takes advantage of the consumer's limited knowledge of chemistry, physics, and physiology. Gel water is referenced in the version of the hoax in which plants or animal fascia are said to create or contain a "fourth phase" of water with an extra hydrogen and an extra oxygen, despite the simple reality that this compound is neither water, nor stable—in other words it doesn't exist in any practical sense
"Hexagonal water, also known as gel water, structured water, cluster water, H3O2 or H3O2 is a term used in a marketing scam that claims the ability to create a certain configuration of water that is better for the body." BRB drinking hexagons I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_water
Load More Replies...The purest water on Earth is a chemical compound called dihydrogen monoxide.
Hexagonal water, also known as gel water, structured water, cluster water,[1] H3O2 or H3O2 is a term used in a marketing scam[2][3] that claims the ability to create a certain configuration of water that is better for the body.[4] The term "hexagonal water" refers to a cluster of water molecules forming a hexagonal shape that supposedly enhances nutrient absorption, removes metabolic wastes, and enhances cellular communication, among other things.[5] The scam takes advantage of the consumer's limited knowledge of chemistry, physics, and physiology. Gel water is referenced in the version of the hoax in which plants or animal fascia are said to create or contain a "fourth phase" of water with an extra hydrogen and an extra oxygen,[6] despite the simple reality that this compound is neither water, nor stable—in other words it doesn't exist in any practical sense.
There is no such thing as H3O2 it isn't chemically possible. Just another scan to suck in people who didn't pay attention in high school science!
So with all these women on birth control, and you STILL can’t get laid, what does that make you??
I have a feeling that this alpha-beta-whatever male concept is made up by those men who have serious minority complex.
It literally is. There's no evidence at all that primates have alpha-beta social structures.
Load More Replies...there is evidence of a woman's taste in men changing will on or off the pill, but to who, i don't remember. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birth-control-pills-affect-womens-taste/
Just differences. Because there is no such thing as alpha or beta (anything, not just humans)
Load More Replies...Ah yes, I have neglected my kids to the point where they don’t bother asking for affection. How independent of them!
No, because if the DO say they're depressed, they'll come down with a slight case of being jailed or just killed.
i prescribe to you bullet through the brain treatment. works everytime.
Load More Replies...Also, 'protest', 'freedom' and 'human rights' are not used in North Korea. I'm fairly sure you can't have a normal haircut either but that's just a suspicion I have so I can't back it up. Result? These three realities DO NOT exist in their country. Then there's the hair thing, I mean, look at him, it's the 'Emperor's New Clothes' of hair.
As a matter of fact, i studied societal psychology and many mental illnesses are expessed differently though cultural lens. For instance in a lot of cultures, an eating disorders may affect the litteral muscles of person. In some asian countries for instance, whereas in north america the ill person eats but purges, the asian person litterally cannot eat. So even if there is no "word" for that illness, or it "doesn't exist", the fact this person is NOT okay is irrefuyable, but the symptoms may vary. Mental illnesses are so fascinating and they are very hard to identify. North Korea doesn't have depression? They do, it's just called "that dude killed himself". They may not recognise it, culturally speaking.
We don't have a word in English for shaudenfreude, but we know what it is and experience it.
What really struck me about this is the last line, which is complete and utter horseshit. To kill a demon, you have to name it. Naming something pins it down, gives it boundaries, makes it finite. To name something is to take power over it.
Ah, two men spending a quiet evening discussing their expertise with the ladies online...
As someone who's queer I think is quite the other way around. If a straight man don't want to suck a woman he isn't really into women.
So if a woman sucks a guy off she's eating another woman's residue. Women, you should have no desire to blow a guy. Besides, they don't even enjoy it. And since you are what you eat that would make you a d**k 🤷🏼♀️
ahh so insecure, they equate any oral sex to gay sex. sad sad weak cowards.
And this is where we see how transphobes are similar in attitudes to homophobes, who also insisted for centuries that homosexuality was a mental illness rather than just another mode of being.
Load More Replies...Secondary sexual characteristic, not much different from a beard. More useful, but harder to style.
"harder to style" made me laugh out loud on public transport! 🤣
Load More Replies...Since this is a furry, I'm guessing they were going off about the t*tty horse incident at anthrocon
Why am I curious as to what that is and yet at the same time have a feeling I don't want to know.
Load More Replies...Well, art seems to favour said "genitalia" with paintings and sculpture, so your point is...?
Wasn't there a police officer in the US who touched something in a suspect's car and got a nearly fatal dose of fentanyl poisoning? It was captured by the other officer's bodycam. They had to narcan him twice? Although I do concede that there may be a psychogenic aspect to some poisonings.
No he didn't Touch per say, he Inhale it, he grabbed something on a suspect car, and accidentaly inhaled the powder, i Also Saw that body cam vídeo.
Load More Replies...My partner uses fentanyl patches for pain and has never acted like that. The fentanyl is absorbed slowly over three days. It is not an instant transfer the second it touches your skin.
This garbage is everywhere. There's even a video of a police officer staggering around complaining he was poisoned by fentanyl. Doesn't happen. Fentanyl patches are a thing, where the drug is absorbed through the skin; but it isn't enough to poison a person.
This comment is almost as stupid as the post. It is totally enough to poison a person. Those patches have to be handled and used very carefully or the patient can die. If it gets torn, worn, ingested or if a young child gets ahold of one, they could die from overdose. Yes, the cop video is exaggerated but that stuff is lethal if handled wrong
Load More Replies...Actually.... there ARE Fentanyl patches made that are to be absorbed thru the skin; many of these drugs can be and are produced to do this! We had to be super careful of the Fentanyl ones in the hospital. Heck, I even heard of a poor pregnant woman who was reported to children's services for doing meth; turned out her landlord never told her the former tenants were cooking... she was exposed via environmental. She never did the drug. If and only if, someone stored their patches in a wallet with their money (you don't do that, but people are dumb), could I see this happening; those patches are meant to easily cross the skin barrier, so any residue from them will be fast acting.
Fentanyl Safety for First Responders: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/media/1740/download
Yes, apparently the idea that originated with the DEA has been somewhat unquestioningly adopted by other organizations. But even this scary-looking warning includes the statement "The risk of clinically significant exposure to emergency responders is extremely low."
Load More Replies...Well I hope she has learned not to pick up money off the ground with her mouth now. /s
I don't think "aggressively and inhumanly abused/traumatized to the point of giving up on one's gender identity" counts as "going away". Just sayin'.
Ah yes, that bastion of truth and sincerity. I would be less than saddened if an eagle shat on him everyday for the rest of his unnatural life.
Canadian kn0b-head and spear-carrier for the incel movement. Thinks lobsters and humans are qualitatively identical. Sounds like a deaf man doing a Kermit impression based solely on visual cues.
Load More Replies...Friends of mine took their infant son to a chiropractor and he ended up on the autism spectrum! Coincidence?? (… Yes, of course it’s a coincidence, but I did feel a little weirded out when they mentioned taking him to a chiropracter at a few months old.)
If a quaker-practor had even looked sideways at my premature child I would have stomped them in to oblivion!!!
This is extremely common around the world. Not saying it is right but it does happen a lot.
If this batpoop theory was actually true (which it isn’t) you’d think those meds would be a lot cheaper.
Excellent point. What's the use of populace-pacifying drugs if the populace can't afford them?
Load More Replies...The latest research shows that the theory of low serotonin levels being a cause of depression is false. This doesn't mean that SSRIs don't work, it just means that we don't understand the mechanism behind them like we thought we did.
Yes. Unfortunately many have seized on the part of the research that found they don't increase serotonin levels and declared that that means they don't work, when the research specifically finds that they do work, just not in the way they thought. Sorry, I know that's what you're saying - I just wanted to emphasize that the research found that they do work.
Load More Replies...I'm guessing stopping trans women from using a female toilet... Because stupid?
Load More Replies...Well I must really confuse this "built-in alarm" then. What does it do when it "detects" both male and female reproductive anatomy? (Ah, right, intersex "isn't real". I guess I don't exist, then!)
You thought Nicole Kidman was trans, so clearly a) this alarm doesn't exist and b) you are delusional.
Load More Replies...Makes me sad to see the scientific community's absolutely heroic effort to come up with covid vaccines reduced in this way. It was such a monumental success that resulted from the efforts of so many unsung heroes, but so many people have reduced it to something Fauci himself whipped up to ... exert control for some reason? Not that Fauci doesn't deserve a ton of credit for his work on this and for his entire career of service to the cause of human health, but it's maddening how so many black and white shallow thinkers reduce and simplify things, usually in some type of blame game while laughing as if they're smarter than everyone else and "see" the big picture.
Ah, another person who hates liberals despite living in a liberal democracy. Words are hard eh
Do I hear us shouting for education in these people who probably didn't finish highschool? Yes, yes I do.
They walk amongst us. Amazing how they know enough to eat, breathe, and poop.
I want it (or a version of this for men) for me, but that is mostly because needles frighten me less than surgery. but I also just googled it cause I've never heard about it, 94% effective sounds low to me. I hope they find ways to improve that.
Load More Replies...Note the conflation of "left" and "liberals". The sure sign of someone who wouldn't recognise politics if it shat in their mouth.
Well yeah, women are women and men are men. Some just get shuffled into the wrong bodies sometimes.
Load More Replies...Wait until this person finds out that intersex people are born every once in a while.
Way more than "every once in a while", best estimates put it at around 1.7% of people. And that's excluding PCOS, as that would bring the number up to around 20% of people.
Load More Replies...The logic is flawed but I have yet to meet a trans person who isn’t neurodivergent
He's not wrong. This is a commonly repeated study on odour/pheromones and genetic compatibility. This does not mean that a particular someone is your soul mate or even sociologically, emotionally, intellectually, etc compatible; just that the two who found each others' odours palatable would have the highest chance of a genetically healthy child.
no really, this is a real, and repeatable, double blind study where the woman's preferred partner's smell is perceived differently when the woman is on and while off the pill.
Load More Replies...Maybe this is good advice if your sole interest in life is procreating with the most biologically compatible person (assuming this is true), but it does give short shrift to every other consideration a woman may have in choosing who they want to partner with. Humans have the gift of reason and it's a useful gift.
Not sure I'd want to be in any relationship where I found my partner stank. Was seeing a guy once and his natural scent was so disgusting to me I couldn't handle it. Took about an hour after he took a shower for the scent to resurface 🤢 He's had gfs since me so I know it was just me who smells it
I get why this is included, it fits the brief, but come on BP, do you really want us to laugh and poke fun at the under pressure mother of an autistic child? Not cool.
Veing under preasure does not make her ignorance and stupidity disappear.
Load More Replies...I can’t help but wonder if this person has been reading stuff from Autisim Speaks. The problematic terminology used seems similar. Edit just to say that as someone with many friends on the spectrum and who’s awaiting testing myself, the way some people treat autisim as a “disease” makes my skin crawl. It’s literally just a term for when someone’s brain works differently (hense the terms “Neurodivergent” and “Neurotypical”, though the former doesn’t just apply to autisim. Sorry for going on too much)
I think the movement toward acceptance for neurodivergent people of all types is a wonderful thing. I also understand why parents of kids on the most severe end of the autism spectrum would want a cure. I personally know one autism family that supports Autism Speaks. Their young adult son is in his early 20's. He must be brought to adult daycare daily. He speaks in 1-2 word sentences at at most. He will never have a job, he will never live independently. He has no friends. He has seriously injured his mother on several occasions, because he has toddler like meltdowns but is a 6ft tall man. They love their son dearly, and have spent his entire life trying to provide him with the education and therapies that will help him live the fullest life possible.
Load More Replies...What happened to good old one vaccines cause autism? Now they should cancel each other?
Well, sometimes it’s a personality trait, sometimes a gift, sometimes it’s a disability. It just depends on what strengths and weaknesses you get, and the intensity of them. Sometimes our needs really do make neurotypical parents lives hard. Sometimes we become innovators who make everyone’s lives better. But hating us, and wanting us gone, will not make the world a better place. Neurotypicals may not admit it, but their antisocial behavior towards us is a burden. It keeps us from becoming the best we can be. I think I know now the root cause of autism, but I also finally see it’s directly related to the root cause of neurotypicality. This knowledge should be used to enhance neurodiversity, not erase it. What’s seemingly convenient is not always right. It can be hard to be an autism parent. I won’t deny it. But acceptance eases the worst part of it, so you can see the best part.
I don’t care what’s politically correct in autism politics, because more important is doing the right thing, both for individuals, and society. Do we need radical acceptance? YES! But does autism need a cure? Not a cure to erase us, but a treatment to optimize the strengths and reduce the impact of the weaknesses. Our life has value, but our enjoyment of it matters. Those who want to destroy us are barking up the wrong tree. Enhancing us is the better answer to our problems. Imagine if relying on our unhindered strengths, we used our innovation prowess to bring humanity to a whole different level?
Load More Replies...I've nearly lost the will to live. But I haven't lost the will to slap people round the head
Wow, I must've severely underestimated the amount of people out there who are huffing solvents...
I had to quit reading after #10. Too many instances of absolute idiots.
I've nearly lost the will to live. But I haven't lost the will to slap people round the head
Wow, I must've severely underestimated the amount of people out there who are huffing solvents...
I had to quit reading after #10. Too many instances of absolute idiots.
