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Medical science is oppressive: it must be banned

Medical science is oppressive: it must be banned

For too long, we have stigmatised nonconformists as “unwell”

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“Illness” is a social construct, defined solely (and in negative terms) against its antithesis: “wellness”. Society, in other words, has created the category of “illness” as a means to impose power on those who do not conform to cultural norms of what it means to be “well”. 

A person can only be said to be “ill” if one accepts societal expectations that …

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