Something interesting happened to me recently. I posted some actual numbers — the kind printed in peer-reviewed journals — and within hours I'd been labeled an "alternative medicine" guy who "thinks he knows everything."
I didn't cite a single supplement. I didn't tell anyone to stop a medication. I pointed at published data and asked a question. That was enough to get sorted into the "don't believe everything on the internet" bin.
Here's the irony: real science is made of questions. "Trust the science" was never supposed to mean "stop asking." A finding you're not allowed to question isn't science — it's doctrine wearing a lab coat.
I understand the defensiveness. The internet is full of genuine nonsense, and telling signal from noise is exhausting. But the cure for bad information isn't blind faith in authority. It's better questions, and a willingness to actually look at the source.
That's the whole premise of We're Not Sick, We're Being Sold. I don't ask you to believe me. I show you where the information comes from and let you check it yourself.
Trust, but verify — especially when someone really doesn't want you to verify.