The Health and Wellness Lie
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1 episodeHow Do You Spot a Wellness Grifter? (with Dr Nick Tiller)
The entire episode is an interview with Dr. Nick Tiller about this book, which E.C. Sienkowski says she really enjoyed reading. Discussed topics include Tiller's taxonomy of wellness figures (believers, liars, and bullshitters), his concept of persistent wellness trends as "mimetic parasites," informal logical fallacies such as the appeal to nature that are exploited in wellness marketing, and the collision of wellness culture with fashion.
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