Quite a number of people, actually... The water nut is selling a 'water energizer' that promises to cure all manner of disease for just $60...
Then there are the loons that scream 'dont let your kids get vaccinated!' because they assert, against all the facts, that it is dangerous...
There are the hucksters selling all sorts of miracle cures that could lead a person to not see a doctor when they should...
There are frauds selling supplements like colloidal silver- which has an unfortunate tendancy to sometimes turn your skin a permanent blue grey color...
Then there are conspiracy nuts charging that NASA is covering up things, or that we never went to the moon, etc... I wonder how much they hurt public support for space programs.
There are too many people - some on this board- that rant about how you cant trust the scientists, or the doctors, in an age when we need their input more than ever...
So, yes, REAL harm is being done, I have seen its tragic results personally.... for instance: a woman in her 50's becoming convinced by a 'recovered memory' quack that her parents were satanists and that they molested her, and sacrificed babies and ate them- her poor father spent his dying days with her making those insane accsations...
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- Pseudoscience - the lunatics may be gaining ground...
- Hell, people sell their soul for money. (n/t)
- Indeed it would seem that way......
- Phrenology, Inc.