quackery

Dr. Oz, no stranger to medical quackery, is in charge of overseeing Medicaid and Medicare services.

Kennedy has no medical expertise and peddled a range of harmful quackery as a private citizen, including anti-vaccination rhetoric and the benefits of chugging raw milk.

Though most of the action takes place a decade or more ago in another hemisphere, its themes of medical quackery, alternative facts and social-media echo chambers are more relevant than ever in 2025.

Science and quackery cannot be treated as having scientific and moral equivalence.

“It’s just mythology. There was a time when that stuff was really popular. It was the major psychiatric quackery of our time.”