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This is very scary. Fake news is becoming a huge thing.
This weekend on Facebook one of my local friends - an older man - posted a link to an article about how "adults shouldn't take ibuprofen". The article talks about how "all of the doctors" are telling their patients not to take ibuprofen. The article didn't name any specific doctors or hospitals, and didn't give any real reasons why someone shouldn't take ibuprofen. Half way through the article they start to talk about some kind of alternative medicine. Of course, at the end of the article there was links to buy this alternative medicine.
All of his friends were all over it - OMG ibuprofen is suddenly bad for us, all of these doctors are telling us this, and we should try this alternative medicine. His wife was all into it, and a few other people were believing it. It was just amazing how they all accepted this article as absolute fact without any evidence at all. It wasn't a medical site, or even a news site, it was just a blog with some random stuff on it.
This is becoming more and more common. It's just amazing how people read something on social media, accept it as fact, and then re-post it without verifying it.
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