Toby's Story

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Before Toby went to jail, he had an option. The FDA kind of drew a line in the sand and said, yeah, we're going to go from the regulatory paperwork phase into the criminal justice phase if you don't stop. And so Toby based on what he thought Elon Musk said crossed the line that the FDA had established and wound up going to jail. When Toby got out, that was kind of like what started his reform period, I guess you would say.

At the peak of COVID-19, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling set out to write a book about the widespread pushback against masks and vaccines as away to discuss the rise of the medical freedom movement in America. But after meeting a series of people within that movement his efforts took a sharp turn into the motivations, tribulations, and personal lives of the people who sell miracle cures and dietary supplements, skirting the law when they can, and heading to jail when they can't. The book is titled, If it Sounds Like a Quack, and it is a deep dive into the marketplace of snake oils and magical procedures sold by people who each claim to have found the one true cure for any and everything that could ever ail you.

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