The most dangerous kind of fake news and disinformation is the one which directly spread pseudo-scientific information about health and illnesses which put life in danger, by giving people the impression they can treat serious disorders with basic tools and ingredients found in ones household...
I have seen those quacks claiming they can cure HIV and cancer through the use of Sea water... It is actually disgusting there are some people out there who are willing to put others life at serious risk, just for the sake of money and relevance. It is playing with the well being of the desperate and the needy and it should be illegal.
That kind of advertising is already illegal where i live. I remember when that law was passed, even then people were arguing against it with lies. They paid for insane interviews where alternative medicine shop keepers were lying and people sharing them in facebook. They argued that if this law passes, you can't sell most of the herbal medicines. Which was a lie.I have seen those quacks claiming they can cure HIV and cancer through the use of Sea water... It is actually disgusting there are some people out there who are willing to put others life at serious risk, just for the sake of money and relevance. It is playing with the well being of the desperate and the needy and it should be illegal.
You just couldn't sell them in pharmacies labeled as medicine, and claim that they cure stuff without peer reviewed evidence.
At the time i was learning how to extract herbs to do alternative medicines, and even i agreed with that new quack law.
Tim Minchin summarized it pretty well:
