/oss/taxonomy/term/3427/all en /oss/article/health-quackery/i-donated-crowdfunding-appeal-did-i-just-finance-cancer-quack <p>Storytelling relies on choices. I can tell you the story of Clara who died after paying tens of thousands of dollars for a pseudoscientific treatment for her cancer, and cast the quack clinic’s director as the villain… or I can instead roll her timeline back and frame the story as a desperate mother of three with an incurable cancer reaching out through the press to raise money for an experimental treatment, and never mention that she dies in the end.</p> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:27:25 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 7374 at /oss