Much of modern crankery is fueled by a fetishization of a "natural" that is every bit an artificially constructed cultural product as the so-called modernity they abhor and scapegoat for today's ills. They are in denial that their hallucinations represent no known reality, living in phantasms.
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally