in potential treatments for muscle recovery, depression, and wound healing, topics regularly discussed on far right wellness podcasts with affiliate links to massage guns and infrared saunas. In the trailer, personal trainer Andrew McGovern says there’s “so much data out there” in support of red light therapy “that hasn’t been picked up on or covered.”
There is risk, however, especially when it comes to dosage levels. “Advocates for this intervention use low levels of red light or near-infrared light, but the pop culture conversation over this has been about ‘tanning,’ ” says Jonathan Jarry, science communicator for McGill University’s Office for Science and Society.
Junk science is not a counterargument to scientific distrust, though it fits with the far right’s chronic assault on science — one which intentionally focuses on characters and whataboutism instead of clinical research. The jump from low testosterone to homeopathy isn’t as far as you might think. As Jarry explains, homeopathy involves a process of dilution so intense and rigorous that it destroys any active ingredient in order to derive its “essence.” This has been the fascist impulse for generations: to bend science in grotesque contortions in order to fit a predetermined message, one that most often involves an imagined and ideal masculinity that refuses to bow to weakness in any form.
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