Avoid polarized advice

Children's health not a game

The world of children's health should remain focused solely on that — children's health. Podcasts attributing themselves as medical experts with a political agenda cannot be trusted.

The Love & Life podcast, as one example, demonstrates the complicated world parent's navigate today when seeking advice. Love & Life, hosted by Dr. Karin and Pastor Elliott, takes a far right political and social approach to impose health ideas on parents.

The podcast uses sarcasm and name calling to manipulate far right followers.

Episode 382 reviews the hosts' attendance at the Children's Health Defense conference in Texas. When referring to Democrats, the language remains divisive through the entire episode.

"Like what happened to them that they switched teams to the other side?" Dr. Karin said. Using words like, "them" and "teams" and "other side," exasperates a dangerous divide.

Dr. Karin also spouts hypocrisy with a biting tone of voice when she claims the goal, “I want to get people out of the habit of these appeals to authority. We’re like, oh, this person has all these letters behind their names. They must be right about everything. Like, I met so many people at the conference who don’t have an enormous list of letters after their name, and yet they are vastly more informed than so many of the doctors in our communities and in our hospitals.”

Then she hypocritically relates her own story about meeting a doctor she not only admires, but idolizes. “I am not a stargazer at all. Like I do not care about Hollywood stars. I do not care about pop stars, but I got my doc stars. I am like fangirling so hard. I was like, Andy Wakefield just talked to me,” Dr. Karin said.

Be weary and even stay clear of any podcasts or media that delve into the medical world with an agenda. It is considered an abuse of power .

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