There’s an unholy alliance between peddlers of quackery—in particular, quack tycoon @mercola, whose net worth is greater than $100 million—and the antivaccine movement and antivaccine groups like the NVIC.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/natural-health-and-the-antivaccine-movement-the-case-of-dr-joseph-mercola/ …
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We’re also treated contemptuously by certain members of our own profession, who erroneously think that what we do is trivial, both in difficulty and importance.
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Their dismissal just shows how little they know. Combating pseudoscience and quackery is actually quite difficult.
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To recap, nobody gets rich opposing quackery and pseudoscience, but there definitely people getting rich, in some cases very rich, selling quackery.
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It takes far more work to refute something than it does to simply make it up... and so, misinformation travels faster than fact
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I had no idea he was *that* wealthy! When I was a door-to-door canvasser for the Portland fluoride measure in 2013, people shamed me for being paid ~$15/hr (no benefits) for canvassing six days a week. Meanwhile they worshipped that guy as a populist yet he's so loaded!


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