For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.
For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.
I once watched a documentary on all-natural child birth. I remember it made some believable points about how terrible epidurals were and how bath tubs and pools were better methods for birthing, all the while vilifying the medical establishment for not giving women choices.
I ate it all up thinking doctors were bastards for this until I finished my second semester at college for my medicine-adjacent degree. Oh, the shame!
Oh really? What changed your mind??
Studying medicine. 😅
What were the worst misconceptions?
Oh, I’m not entirely versed in child-bearing, but they claimed doctors didn’t give women the option of giving birth in any other position than lying on their backs, but now I know this is false. You can request to give birth in any position that feels more comfortable.
Another was that giving an epidural would create a cascading effect of needing another drug to cover the side-effects, and then needing another to cover those side-effects as well, and so on just to tack on the bill. Of course, that’s not how it works.