Deserve a long prison sentence.

These people are not alone, there are millions of people who have gone down these internet rabbit holes and are now making misinformed health decisions.

sucked into weird conspiracy theories that landed them in QAnon or MAGA. The guy that assaulted Paul Pelosi got started in the conspiracy world with nutty health conspiracies.

I've got some distended (I'll let the malaprop stand, as it feels accurate) family members who will most likely have "I did my own research" on their tombstone. My generally negative perceptions of moms and dads who pretend to be scientists and educators remains as is...

With actual degrees from universities who follow the crowd with some of these erroneous conclusions.

Poor judgment isn't limited to the uneducated.

'Poor judgment isn't limited to the uneducated.'

Some of them are in congress.

Not a great idea in some cases.

Was just reading about some people that adopted a kitten after watching youtube videos about kittens.

The world is far different than what youtube or other aspects of the internet reveal.

In this case, death and severe harm to children!

What idiots!

not people doing basic customer service.

People no longer have to give away all their possessions and move across the country to join a cult. Now they can join a cult in the comfort of their own home.

No matter how they dress it up, starving your children and watching them die is still starving your children. It's torture. It's child abuse.

an infant 5 months old should have been either totally breastfed or fed soy-vased formula. No excuses for that.

I have no idea where you get your information, but you really need to fact check before you go posting online.

Should have been on breastmilk or formula. Then again, I’ve seen a couple of their stupid videos about formula and those are pretty terrible.

what toxins?

Idiot parents

At least the other 3 kids now have a chance to get away from their nut job parents. Hopefully the "orthorexia by proxy" that these "parents" inflicted upon their kids didn't do permanent damage to their development.

The infant should have been gaining weight.

a growing epidemic of childhood diseases due to the parents not wanting vaccinations. Especially the potentially deadly diseases, that were considered CONQUERED here in the U.S. due to vaccinations.......

A parent's decision to ignore science, and not vaccinate their children, could well cause an epidemic in all the other children whose parents that have decided NOT to vaccinate their children..........

The lack of educated parents, and the MAGAots, are fueling this distrust in Vacinations.......

In so many different ways, we have gone BACKWARDS nearly a century......tearing apart government regulations, working towards another GILDED AGE, a new entire set of ROBBER BARRONS, poverty and hunger, blatant racism, etc etc etc

WASF

Maybe he'll go away.....

My parents 'did their own research'.

on social media? I can always dig into journals, CDC site, AAP site, etc. But too many people gravitate towards conspiracy sites instead of science-based professional sites.

That's uniquely American. Our for-profit healthcare system is an abject failure and should not be granted blind faith. But, I agree that these knuckleheads took it to a sadistically extreme level either by sheer stupidity or sheer cruelty.

Social media will destroy humanity.

What made them follow such extremes?

The gullible believe nonsense far too easily. I suppose that is a good definition of the word "gullible". The internet has its points, but you have to make sure your bullshit detector is healthy and functioning.

 — Ron

...career, I often found myself thinking parenthood should require a license. Things like this are among the many reasons I still feel that way.

The mere ability to juxtapose genitalia is not a sufficient qualification/skill set for being a parent.