The Epidemic of Woo

Nomad + Spice

• Viv’s cute birthday fairytale cabin
• Don’t put jade eggs in your vagina
• Join our Nomad Feminist Book Club!
• It’s not just nomads: millennials and queers also love astrology
• Washington Post article about astrology instead of therapy
• We hear from Kayla
• Thanks to Christine for contributing your voice memo!
• The Wing - cool feminist co-working space in the States!
• Listen to Secret Feminist Agenda
• Women of colour get worse health care than white women
• Thanks to listener Abby for her thoughts!
• John Oliver’s church tax stunt
• The Guardian’s Why We Fell for Clean Eating
• Belle Gibson and Pete Evans, the Australian diet scammers
• Thanks Kyrie for weighing in!
• John Oliver’s climate science stunt
• Check out Heather Thorkelson’s podcast
• Carl Sagan’s pale blue dot quote
• Thanks Nicole for sharing your thoughts with us!
• Placebo effect study! Surgery placebo effect. Kids in a cancer ward, destroying the cancer cells - those kids did better with their treatment regimens

Viv’s critical thinking toolkit

• Is there scientific evidence? Look for peer-reviewed studies
• Is it expensive? You could probably buy a book and get the same info?
• Who is selling it? Is it a white guru?
• Is it dogmatic? Do they have strict all-or-nothing rules?

Special thanks to Kyrie, Christine, Nicole, Abby, and Kayla for sharing their thoughts with us and to Heather for letting us use a clip from her podcast. Thanks to our personal protective crystal Madame Gandhi for our amazing backing music, Yellow Sea.

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