They said they could cure him, and she only found out he was dead when the hotel he was staying in rang her off for five days to say we haven't seen her husband. Seeing the harm that misinformation can cause motivated Liz to take action.
And I thought, I need to do something about this. And it can take hours and hours to create those videos. But just trying to get a little bit of common sense out there to say if I can save one person from doing something stupid.
I still feel like I'm a doctor, but you just feel like you're banging your head against. Some noise out there is huge. Throughout this series, I've been investigating the case of Paloma Shemarani, a young woman who died of. I'm saying 2024 after rejecting chemotherapy in favour of pursuing unproven alternative therapies.
And I found that Paloma's story is far from an isolated case.S ince the pandemic, I've observed how anti-medicine conspiracy theories have become more mainstream. Increasingly, celebrities, influencers and even major politicians have been posting and sharing health misinformation. In this episodewhenen exploring how best to protect people from the harm health misinformation can cause, it's important to understand how conspiracy land works.
This brings me back to Paloma. Paloma's brothers say the beliefs held by their mum are a conspiracy theory influencer who shares anti-medicine views on social media, contributed to Paloma's decision to reject a treatment that could have saved her life.H owever, her mom, Kate Shamara,i seems to have a very different perspective.
In February, she shared a thread on X explaining what she and Paloma's dad farmers, say happened to Paloma.Gabriel He,l HelloMr. and brother saw the, post and it made him, angry, so I was a home. I think I'll be studying it as a normal day for me.
