Basically, Erin Elizabeth, who runs an alternative medicine website () and also happen to be über-quack Joe Mercola's girlfriend, started looking for "holistic" doctors who died under mysterious circumstance. Nicholas Gonzalez died suddenly of what, as far as I could gather from the news reports, sure sounded like a sudden heart attack, something all too unfortunately common in older men. Not long after that, there emerged a conspiracy theory in which "holistic medicine" practitioners were supposedly being targeted for murder, starting with Dr. His family even raised $33,000 to hire private detectives to "find the truth." Two years later, no convincing evidence has been found that Bradstreet died other than by suicide. Not surprisingly, Bradstreet's family, as well as many antivaxers, didn't believe that Bradstreet committed suicide.
The local law enforcement authorities determined that it was a suicide, and within a month it came out that the day before his death Bradstreet's clinic had been raided by the FDA for selling a "wonder cure" in the form of a compound known as GcMAF, as I discussed at the time. Jeff Bradstreet was found in the Rocky Broad River in mountainous North Carolina with a bullet wound to the chest. Perhaps the strangest conspiracy theory I've ever come across popped up around two years ago, when the body of antivaccine autism quack (but I repeat myself) Dr. Before I get to how the tragedy of what happened to Justine Damond is getting more tragic, I need to review some background. In this case, antivax conspiracy theories have impinged on the tragic story of Justine Damond, the woman killed by a Minneapolis police officer less than two weeks ago. Sometimes, these conspiracy theories reach ridiculous levels, so much so that they can even become entangled with larger stories. Yes, be it 9/11 Truthers, Moon Hoaxers, or even Bigfoot hunters, behind every significant bit of pseudoscience is a conspiracy theory, or at least conspiracy theories inevitably crop up to "explain" why the pseudoscience isn't accepted.
The same goes for GMOs, in which the all-powerful Monsanto is "suppressing" evidence of all the alleged harm they do. big pharma and/or the FDA) is keeping the cures from the people in order to protect profits from low cost "natural" cancer cures. Inevitably, if you get into discussions with believers, sooner or later (usually sooner) they'll tell you that The Man (a.k.a. The same is true with alternative medicine in alternative cancer cures. For instance, in the case of the antivaccine movement, the conspiracy theory is that some combination of the CDC, big pharma, and the FDA is conspiring to hide the truth-excuse me, The Truth-that vaccines cause autism, brain damage, autimmune disease, diabetes, sudden infant death syndrome, shaken baby syndrome, and whatever other disease, injury, or condition that antivaxers like to attribute to vaccines.
The reason, of course, is because behind virtually every commonly accepted pseudoscientific and antiscience ideas there is conspiracy theory.
As a skeptic, I can't help but taking an interest in conspiracy theories.
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