
DO 152 - Medical Nemesis and Matthew Loftus with Donald
Doomer Optimism
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The Unstable Meaning of Health
A lot of the people don't understand anything I write on Twitter because each of us comes to every conversation, especially if it deals with something abstract like health or medicine. So whenever we come to the discussion of this health and what Yvonne Leach talks about and what he references for each word that he writes,. He is trying to delineate a tradition of knowledge and a tradition of scientific knowledge that brought him to make this statement. And these meanings are extremely unstable in practice and they cannot be pinned down and defined - you know, when you sit out to define something, you actually end up losing a lot of meaning.
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