4. The Politics of Health: Public Health & Misinformation

3,267 likes, 824 comments - matthew_remski on September 8, 2026: "I interviewed @beatriceadlerbolton on @conspiritualitypod episode 101, "Eugenic Pandemic." Anyone making fun of this work is reactionary and not serious. UPDATE: In the next reel I've posted BAB's full "dysgenic" comments, for those who want to learn what the rightwing shitpost clip jockey left out, and think about how easy it is to glitch out on solidarity for the thrill of swarming. #HealthCommunism, #DeathPanel, #DisabilityJustice, #MassDisablingEvent, #ComradeDefense".

Fitness & Fascism. Now this is my lane and I have a *lot to say on the matter, I'll let Hasan take this for now. But let's just say I've *always told my patients you can make a bigger impact on the world the better you take care of yourself to fight the system that causes us to be as unhealthy as we are. Fascists come at this from a purification mindset which, alongside antivaxism leads directly to eugenics.

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The AMA, the Vaccine Integrity Project, and four specialty societies have joined forces to deliver evidence-based recommendations for the 2026-2027 respiratory virus season.

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In 2019, RFK Jr. went to Samoa to promote antivax propaganda that fueled a measles outbreak. We now learn it was even worse than reported.

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The HHS secretary uses fear of contamination to denigrate modern medicine and advance a project rooted in vulgar eugenics.

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Your epic rant and news summary of the day. RFK Jr is once again officially implicated in deaths. You know, to add to his polio deaths in Africa. What's next, polio comeback? So while I know this doesn't yet apply to Canada, this shit proves why we need MORE funding in public health & research. What a f'kin eugenicist.

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Diagnosing Social Pathology - October 2022

In cultural studies, neoliberal capitalism has been critically discussed in connection with a rise of mental illness. Within this discourse, psychology and psychoanalysis are being ambivalently debated as either complicit with the capitalist representational system or as potential tools to critically interrogate it. This paper traces these arguments in publications by writers such as Mark Fisher and Franco Berardi, and examines their relationship to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of schizoanalysis. It re-assesses Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas and concludes with an outline for the complementary use of psychoanalytic theory and schizoanalytic ideas as a meta-discourse within cultural studies.

This book diagnoses the social, mental and political consequences of working and economic organizations that generate value from communication. It calls for the role of communication technologies to be reimagined in order to create a healthier, fairer society.

Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit is about capital and about the economic system that bears its name. In this book, Levine argues that our pursuit of ever-more wealth in the form of capital expresses our dissatisfaction with the world we live in, with what we have and what we don't have. Capital embodies our hope for something different. Because capital embodies this hope, it has become desire's object. In his study of capitalism, Levine explores the meaning of capital as a social reality connected to fundamental human aspirations. The link between capital and the pursuit of a hoped-for state is especially important in light of the stubborn insistence on the part of its critics that capitalism exists to serve the material interests of those whose vocation is to own capital. This misunderstanding ignores what is essential about capital, which is its link not to interests but to hope, especially the hope that by accumulating capital the individual can achieve an attachment to the good. It is this hope that blocks tolerance of any notion that there is something unfair in the capitalist's acquisition of wealth and that fairness can be achieved through its redistribution to others. It is also this hope that animates the capitalist system as a whole. And in that sense, this hope is the spirit of capitalism. To develop this theme, Levine calls on the ideas and writings of major theorists involved with understanding modernity and capitalism: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Joseph Schumpeter.

Is unfettered capitalism the root of soaring rates of mental illness in the Western world?