This looks like a great recommendation, thank you!

I have to know all of the medications for my board exams, but knowing what bullshit the pharma companies are advertising would be useful. There’s a lot of people who will ask for Ozempic and then be horrified when they learn about the side effects (or the price of the medication). I worry a lot about the “compounding pharmacies” that will mail people knock-off Ozempic with minimal medical oversight. It’s just a matter of time before someone gets killed by the pancreatitis or something.

One account in the milieu isn’t going to make that much of a difference.

That will actually be helpful towards the weird stuff that men get into in addition to wholly unnecessary “hormone replacement therapy” (aka juicing on steroids)

That’s actually super helpful. I’ll need a few “content creators” to seed the dummy account with.

That will be a good downtime activity, but I also want to know what the algorithms are shoveling.

Signing up for emailing lists is probably a good place to start. I also accidentally subscribed to an RFK apologist Substack when it was recommending health-related writers to me.

Dr. Oz and Oprah are featured in Behind The Bastards for a reason. Oprah actually got a 7-episode mini-series.

I’ll be looking into free versions of Chat GPT and the like. And I like the idea of AI summaries of Joe Rogan because I don’t think I could actually listen to him without having an actual aneurysm.

That covers some things, but the algorithm feeds people such nonsense at such a high rate that it’s hard to keep up with.

Truth social is one I hadn’t thought of. I should also look into getting on an emailing list from Goop.

Bookmarked on my personal accounts because then I’ll have access to full text articles through my institutional subscription when I go digging. :)

I do ask them, but some of the things they say/ask about are just so baffling that I’d like to know about it ahead of time so I know what to respond with or recommend instead. Also, it’s kind of along the lines of needing to know all the slang terms for drugs so I know what they’re talking about when they OD on something or take something that interferes with their actual medications.

It hurts my soul that this is actually a good addition.