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A lot of people have fallen into the FUD wholesale and are resolute believers so it might be mostly driven by momentum at this point - but somewhere under all of that is a slimy snake-oil salesman who is raking in the money for sugar water... traditional medicine and such never take off unless someone can make a buck.

Here you go: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2019/10/15/fdc...

I feel like Companies like Goop and other "natural" health companies profit from this stuff as a side-effect. Like who else could you market this type of crap to.

https://shop.goop.com/shop/products/rose-quartz-bottle?taxon...

Ironically, I've seen a lot of people (including firsthand) who consider things like Goop to be "liberal" nonsense, yet consider vaccines dangerous because of the conspiracy/general-distrust-of-experts angles.

As the article states, these anti-vax pamphlets suggest parents buy the advertisers natural remedy products instead.