Toby McAdams: The Best Option Montana Has to Enter the 21st Century

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The Bozeman Daily Chronicle ran a story in 2000 about Toby McAdams, who was running for governor of Montana. The article detailed all the time he had served in prison for passing bad checks across the state and for violating his parole by opening bank accounts under false names. He hadn't paid his child support since 1988. His press release announcing his candidacy back on him was still pretty sure he had a shot at becoming governor if he ran a campaign like Jesse Ventura or Ross Perot as an outsider.

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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