I'm glad this issue is FINALLY getting mainstream attention. I've been writing about how social media crowdfunding facilitates quackery ever since I first discovered @DrStanBurzynski patients doing it.https://twitter.com/sky__john/status/1081192444438429698 …
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Go after the platform or go after the quacks?
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It's a thorny problem. I proposed once that the platforms should require anyone doing medical crowdfunding to identify the clinic where he's seeking treatment and the practitioners providing it. At the very least, this would allow the identification of obvious quack clinics.
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This is important to stress, as that same help is seldom available for people needing regular medical assistance. There is something about the self-created (fake) mysticism and maverickism of seeking alt-med treatments that appeals to the worst of our conspiracy theory natures.
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I'm actually saddened by crowdfunding campaigns for people who declare they need the money for woo and pseudomedicine. There's a famous quack in Poland whose "therapies" drain people's pockets... and he is a mining engineer. MINING!!!
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If only there were some way to raise funds for advertising this issue...hmmm
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