that's gotta be incredibly hard to deal with, especially suffering from hypochondria. i would just try to bear in mind that there is a massive replicability crisis with scientific studies as well as a smaller (albeit still prominent) issue with ideology-driven studies being performed. add that to your mother's admitted bias (both in the information she's searching for and what she's likely to accept) and the likelihood that she's arriving at the right answer hovers safely around 0%.
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:internet-delenda-est:
that's gotta be incredibly hard to deal with, especially suffering from hypochondria. i would just try to bear in mind that there is a massive replicability crisis with scientific studies as well as a smaller (albeit still prominent) issue with ideology-driven studies being performed. add that to your mother's admitted bias (both in the information she's searching for and what she's likely to accept) and the likelihood that she's arriving at the right answer hovers safely around 0%.
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Confirmation bias, she is clearly ignoring the majority of studies and focusing only on the ones that affirm her views
:this: I have a conservative family member who studied nutrition, but still fell for the soy boy thing (among holding other VERY unscientific views)
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