matchgirl42:bigfatscience:facebooksexism:disneyvillainess said: Can we please tag @bigfats
matchgirl42:bigfatscience:facebooksexism:disneyvillainess said: Can we please tag @bigfatscience for a debunking because this is bullshitI agree that this meme is bullshit. Fat phobic, concern trolling, oppressive bullshit.As the wonderful Marilyn Wann has said, the only thing you can diagnose by looking at a fat person’s body is your own degree of fat phobia. And that holds true here as well. This image is only “amazing” and “shocking” if you believe that fatness in inherently bad and deviant and disgusting. Putting aside those prejudices, this image simply illustrates the natural human phenomenon of size diversity, and there is nothing shocking about that. I doubt this meme was created by a nurse, but if it was, they need some education before they should be allowed to treat any fat patients in the future.You can read more debunking here: Fat people are not your “medical freak show”If you drill down this image, you find that it’s originally from an “educational” poster used in doctor’s offices, found it here.Look in the bottom left hand corner:It reads: “…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by GE medical systems and St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Consultants, Steve Heymsfield and Wei Shen, Obesity Research Center, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center.”Dr. Steven Heymsfield is “one of the pharmaceutical industry’sleading weight-loss researchers” and is the global director forscientific affairs and obesity at Merck & Co. Given that St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center has been known as Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s for a while now, this poster was probably created at the same time that Merck & Co were heavily researching now-abandoned anti-obesity drugs. (Helloooooo conflict of interest.)The Obesity Research Center at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center - now Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s - focuses on….wait for it….bariatric surgery. (Helloooooo conflict of interest.)What was that that Kate Harding once said? “If you scratch an article on the obesity! crisis! you will almost always find a press release from a company that’s developing a weight loss drug — or from a “research group” that’s funded by such companies.“ Let’s add bariatric surgery into that mix too, because it’s big business: 220,000 bariatric surgeries were performed in the US in 2013 alone, and at around $25,000 each, that’s $5.5 billion in revenue - a huge chunk of the estimated $20 billion annual revenue of the weight loss industry.In other words people, always follow the money. And really, if someone is preparing a piece of propaganda like this, especially with that kind of conflict of interest, do you really think they’re going to choose a healthy fat person, or an unhealthy thin person for it? Come on now. Critical thinking skills, people!Great sleuthing! -- source link
#fat phobia#medical discrimination#obesity epidemic#bias#science criticism#concern trolling