Did you ever asked yourself why earth flatteners are keeping on with their youtube videos, their conferences and all activities related to it? Because it brings money. It's a business.
It can be applied as well to some anti-vaxxers campaigners. Since the beginning of the pandemic I have seen so many pills and other treatments being sold to boost the immunity or to take when sick of covid. Those products are often barely regulated. It's a business, like the money generated by the audience on youtube and other platforms. It's not some pure altruism. If then people prefer to listen to those people, to crowfund them or buy products they are selling, that's their choice. But I find mad to not see it. The wellness business generally speaking is a booming business and covid, anxiety caused by the pandemic and lockdowns are being used by some influencers or guru to make some money out of it.
You'll say I prefer to get vaccinated and take advices on covid from scientists that are also making money out of it. That's right. But I give more trust to trained doctors and scientists than some random dude on youtube. That's my point of view.
Btw I take some vitamin D since years - but it's the one I got prescribed by my doctor, not some random vitamin D sold online. You'll be amazed if you dig a bit in the business of food complements - not regulated as not considered as medicaments - by the sheer amount of products being wrongly dosed or questionnable in term of composition or ineffective on the market.
I am not dismissing alternative medicine. I find great they have been integrated in today's healthcare. I do think they can be great in some cases and I am a proponent of using the minimum of medicaments when possible. But as with big pharma, there is also some drifts unfortunately.
Lastly it has been demonstrated that some extreme political movements are using the pandemic to attract people around the doubts generated by the pandemic and the mess created by politicians in power. Then some extreme views are exposed to their new audience. They also benefit from the current chaos.
It can be applied as well to some anti-vaxxers campaigners. Since the beginning of the pandemic I have seen so many pills and other treatments being sold to boost the immunity or to take when sick of covid. Those products are often barely regulated. It's a business, like the money generated by the audience on youtube and other platforms. It's not some pure altruism. If then people prefer to listen to those people, to crowfund them or buy products they are selling, that's their choice. But I find mad to not see it. The wellness business generally speaking is a booming business and covid, anxiety caused by the pandemic and lockdowns are being used by some influencers or guru to make some money out of it.
You'll say I prefer to get vaccinated and take advices on covid from scientists that are also making money out of it. That's right. But I give more trust to trained doctors and scientists than some random dude on youtube. That's my point of view.
Btw I take some vitamin D since years - but it's the one I got prescribed by my doctor, not some random vitamin D sold online. You'll be amazed if you dig a bit in the business of food complements - not regulated as not considered as medicaments - by the sheer amount of products being wrongly dosed or questionnable in term of composition or ineffective on the market.
I am not dismissing alternative medicine. I find great they have been integrated in today's healthcare. I do think they can be great in some cases and I am a proponent of using the minimum of medicaments when possible. But as with big pharma, there is also some drifts unfortunately.
Lastly it has been demonstrated that some extreme political movements are using the pandemic to attract people around the doubts generated by the pandemic and the mess created by politicians in power. Then some extreme views are exposed to their new audience. They also benefit from the current chaos.
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