GoFundMe is often used to raise money that is destined to go into the pockets of purveyors of medicine that is useless at best. Their technique, in trying to take measurements of snake-oil pathology, was to create a sample of crowdfunding campaigns that mention both cancer and homeopathy. They chose homeopathy because, although they do not put it in these words, homeopathy is especially stupid. Snyder and Caulfield offer three key findings after extracting and examining a sample of a couple hundred crowdfunding appeals:1. (Or perhaps it is just that assigning responsibility to GoFundMe is most expedient avenue of attack on the underlying problem.)

Source: National Post January 09, 2019 21:00 UTC