re: #175 Belafon

Amazing. We are 4% of the world’s population, 25% of global Covid deaths, 20-25% of Covid cases, 35% of MPX cases. American exceptionalism! https://t.co/wziBShXE9N

— Dr. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) August 20, 2022

Our trainwreck of a health care system allows quackery and snake oil to run wild as people desperately seek an alternative, any alternative, to care they cannot afford. They also see that they are being robbed blind by pharma companies and assume, wrongly, that everything and everyone involved with scientific medicine is equally corrupt. From this base, quackery and snake oil, antiscience and anti-reason spread in waves throughout society, infesting politics, business, and culture. It is the bedrock, the driving force, and the conspiracy industry is primarily its advertising and promotional agency.