Talk:Medbed

sources

We need more sources than yesterday's BBC article. Why Conspiracy Theorists Think New Suicide Pods are Med Beds (dailydot.com) has some, but also confuses real life hospital beds which are being sold innocently as "medbeds".

Following a Spiritual Path: Recovering From Religion Volume 2 - Elsabe Smit - Google Books is good for the nonsense. 62.6.35.4 (talk) 00:39, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

That second link is dead, unfortunately. The archived version isn't usable either (though I suspect that has less to do with the book in question and more to do with Google Books and Internet Archive just not playing well together. BrokenEye3 (talk) 20:33, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Older uses of the word

As shown in the Wiktionary entry, this word has older usage in science fiction, for a sort of hi-tech bed like in the Star Trek sick bay. Equinox ◑ 19:29, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Major Accuracy Issues

This article fails to acknowledge that there is no solid evidence of the existence of "medbeds", or that medbeds are an element of the widely disproven QAnon conspiracy theory. In fact, this page seems to imply they are real, despite the lack of evidence to support this and their clear roots in science fiction.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-64070190

An example of fictional healing technology from "Star Wars" that may have inspired the medbed theory 43.225.189.133 (talk) 23:19, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

It is disingenuous to make the claim that "the QAnon conspiracy" is "widely disproven." It is a real event, it actually happened, you can refer to it today, and when you google the term, you find countless remarks from sitting politicians and candidates. Many of us here were present for the original conversations on that site. I recommend looking at it from a historic context; analyzing the motives behind people who spoke the word hundreds of times on camera for political purposes; or the factors that led protestors and insurrectionists on Jan 6 to wear the Q symbol.

As for whether it's associated with medbeds or not... chronologically medbeds originated in 2025, and QAnon has been around for years. The only person to promote them so far is DJT and he's just one sample point, albeit one that represents the far right in the USA. 8.47.100.79 (talk) 12:14, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

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offers offer last paragraph needs correction — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.106.93.15 (talk) 23:50, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 September 2025

“Purportedly” is misspelled “purporedly.” 174.228.100.178 (talk) 18:13, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done Cannolis (talk) 19:45, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Missing source for claim of far-right affiliation

"Qanon conspiracy" is hardly relevant. General sentiment in the far right is not at all affiliated with these conspiratorial/new-age products or theories.

Suggesting to remove "far right" from the entry unless any substantiative sourcing can be referred to prove its part of this trend/topic. 85.76.161.198 (talk) 22:31, 4 October 2025 (UTC)