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minus-squareCorvidae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoThat probably goes back to JH Kellogg and his Seventh Day Adventist religion, and possibly back to the Puritans.
minus-squareU7826391786239@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months ago“doc, i have a pain in my lower back when i get up in the morning” “sounds like you touch yourself. do you?” “um…” “that explains it. stop sinning, eat these cornflakes and call me in the morning” “sounds legit”
minus-squareCorvidae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoJH Kellogg was a physician, so his view came with that stamp of medical authority.
minus-squareU7826391786239@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoi wonder what med school course it is where they learned that jesus hates you if you burp the worm
That probably goes back to JH Kellogg and his Seventh Day Adventist religion, and possibly back to the Puritans.
“doc, i have a pain in my lower back when i get up in the morning”
“sounds like you touch yourself. do you?”
“um…”
“that explains it. stop sinning, eat these cornflakes and call me in the morning”
“sounds legit”
JH Kellogg was a physician, so his view came with that stamp of medical authority.
i wonder what med school course it is where they learned that jesus hates you if you burp the worm