The Importance of Trust in the Government

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The National League was a union for homeopaths, eclectics, osteopaths and other schools of healing. They considered conventional medicine to trick Americans into taking things that prolong their sicknesses instead of curing them. When trust is low, quacks and alternative medical ideas wholly unsupported by scientific evidence become popular. And in times like during the COVID pandemic, there are ethical, moral, and philosophical questions raised by mandates.

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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