[cinntaile]

If you check possible side-effects of very common medicine you can probably find some terrifying stuff that happens to 1 out of 10 million people. If it gets reported on in the media, it would seem a lot more common than it is. To be clear I'm not saying that's the case here, I have no idea.

[emodendroket]

Sure but would that make it wrong for an essayist to write about it if it happened to them? Writing about personal experiences seems to be a substantial portion of this guy's beat.