“Primitivism” of online health educators: extreme naiveté in interpretation and treatment of subjects. — The New Neander’s Medical

The following is an excerpt of a post published at our site The New Neander’s Medical on October 24, 2020.

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Primitivism of online health educators. Primitivism here is a practice of talking about health and physiology in a way alien to academic techniques and scientnific method, often displaying an extreme naiveté in interpretation and treatment of subjects. The illustration is based on the painting by Emil Nolde-Verlorenes, Paradies, Paradise Lost, 1921. A caption by The New Neander’s Medical.

Primitivism in art.

Here is a good definition of Primitivism in art:

Primitivism in art is the practice of painting in a way alien to academic or traditional techniques, often displaying a highly individual naiveté in interpretation and treatment of subjects.

Source: Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc.

A definition of Primitive:

simple or naive in style.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. (2011).

A definition of Crude, Crudeness:

Lacking in sophistication or subtlety; simplistic.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. (2011).

Anthropology of grassroots online health educators.

People are strange. Many get confused even about the very basics of their trade or of whatever they are actively studying.

Thus, many online health educators, medical doctors and others, make catastrophic errors.

A couple of examples are below.

The New Neander’s Medical on March 27, 2020:

Online Health Educators. Gross errors in the lipoprotein cycle diagram that Dave Feldman put in his Twitter profile.

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“Primitivism” of online health educators: extreme naiveté in interpretation and treatment of subjects. — The New Neander’s Medical