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by spondylosaurus
558 days ago
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(1) Among other things, this is an awful example of why documentation matters. So many people were taking this man on his word, and I'm sure if there'd been proper paper trails he would've been caught in even more lies, and hopefully much sooner. (2) Given how high his diagnosis rates were, I wonder if any population-level studies have been inadvertently thrown off by the "high" cancer rates in Montana, or otherwise tried to explain them. From the outside it might've looked like there was some kind of cancer cluster when in reality this guy was just a liar. (3) I recently heard a similar story, albeit on a much smaller scale, of a woman who was wrongfully diagnosed with HIV and got so sick from the side effects of anti-HIV medication (this was in the late 80s/early 90s when treatment was nearly as bad as the disease) that she was on the verge of dying. Thankfully she sought last-ditch treatment with a doctor who ran some bloodwork and discovered that she was HIV negative. In that case, the false positive came from a health department employee who'd deliberately lied to her about the results. The employee lied because they wanted the woman to come to their church, where she'd miraculously be "cured" of HIV (and of being gay). But the woman only realized this in hindsight. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/123/high-cost-of-living/act... |
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