[fxtentacle]

"Getting health advice from Joe Mercola at this point is beyond defensible."

It was OK before?

You summarized this guy as "Influential anti-vaxxer and supplement salesman Joe Mercola wants veterinarians killed as he blows CO₂ gas up his rear."

If listeners don't feel sceptical after THAT, I'm not sure anything can still convince them...

[mikehall314]

It is not unreasonable to try and write in a fashion which attempts (perhaps unsuccessfully?) to coax people away from Mercola’s world. Even if you are fully steeped in that alt-med rabbithole, I would hope the revelation that Mercola’s information often comes from ChatGPT (“because it has no reason to lie”) would be enough to give someone pause.

Perhaps it’s not, but fair credit to the compassion of the author for the assumption that it might.

(Disclosure: I know the author personally, though we have not discussed this topic)