Study: RFK Jr., Joe Rogan’s Misinformation Campaigns Led To A 38% Increase In Vitamin A Poisoning Last Year

Early last year, when America’s measles outbreaks were still being counted in three-digit numbers, we talked about how RFK Jr. and his misinformation campaign were making things worse. A lot …

Techdirt

Beware of #quackery. "“They’ve invented a spurious pseudo-disease called ‘low testosterone’ from which vast numbers of men are said to suffer,” says Dr Richard Quinton..."#testosterone

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/10/invented-spurious-pseudo-disease-why-are-so-many-men-being-told-they-have-low-testosterone

‘They’ve invented a spurious pseudo-disease’: why are so many men being told they have low testosterone?

Social media influencers and booming men’s health companies are pushing the hormone as an answer to all ills. But is ‘low T’ really problematic – or something created to sell men a cure to a problem they don’t have?

The Guardian
Trump's new medical advice? Drink diet soda to cure cancer! He reasons that since Diet Coke "kills grass" that it can kill cancer cells in the human body.
#quackery
#droz
#cancercure
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dr-oz-stunned-reaction-trump-170335362.html
Dr. Oz’s stunned reaction to Trump’s soda and cancer theory: ‘Are you kidding me!?’

Trump installed a soda button on the Resolute Desk and consumes multiple cans daily, prompting his own health secretary to question how he's still alive.

Yahoo News
Nutritional Hexes - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Sad to see that University of Westminster has set up Centre for Nutraceuticals to promote the largely fraudulent "wellbeing" industry.
#quackery #nutribollocks #pseudoscience
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/university-of-westminster-celebrates-world-first-centre-for-nutraceuticals-dedicated-to-vitamin-and-food-supplement-innovation
University of Westminster celebrates world-first Centre for Nutraceuticals dedicated to vitamin and food supplement innovation 

"You never heard of [diseases] before 1989" - says some guy in charge of US HHS

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When Donald Trump is not unjustly enriching himself (can you say "corruption?") he and #RFKjr are worsening our health:

"Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs. Federal policies under #RFKjr that are hostile to vaccines have 'sent a chill through the entire industry'.”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/health/rfk-vaccine-manufacturers.html
#healthcare #quackery #politics copy: @renewedresistance #Trump #WorstPresidentEver

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

Federal policies under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that are hostile to vaccines have “sent a chill through the entire industry,” one scientist said.

The New York Times
@HannahHowe
Phosferine: alcohol, quinine and sulphuric acid. Mmm, yummy.
#quackery

This is interesting. The #Texas Penal Code makes no mention of conversion therapy on minors, yet § 35A.02(a)(7)(B) forbids providers from claiming fraudulent services. With no accredited provider seriously recommending conversion therapy, the statute thus presumably proscribes it as a medical treatment, rendering any new law redundant, not to mention the risk of said laws extending to counseling—an obvious constitutional no-no. (1/3)

#FirstAmendment #LGBTQRights #overcriminalization #quackery