Doubting mainstream medicine, COVID patients find dangerous advice and pills online — NPR

Deeply sad that regular folks don't grasp that we have medical boards that license MDs and pharmacists for good reason. Yes there are individual and corporate bad actors in all sectors; and regulatory bureaucracy can be a slow walk. But setting oneself up as a "practitioner" without the basic education, training and license is abhorrent.

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..."But Stephanie, who was 75 at the time, didn't go. A few years before, she had been sucked into a world of online conspiracy theories — far-fetched ideas like one claiming John F. Kennedy Jr. is still alive. With the pandemic, it got worse. She became deeply distrustful of the medical system."...