He later died." The thrust of the piece was that social-media platforms, and Facebook in particular, provide a place where parents an others can "…trade in false health information." The article hints (and the headline practically screams) that the ability of parents to share medical information and advice online probably led to the death of a four-year-old boy and perhaps we ought to stamp it out.

Following the piece's publication, the mother was subjected to online harassment and even death threats. This is nothing new for the piece's author, Brandy Zadrozny, who has made a name for herself for harassing grieving parents and others who question medical orthodoxy. Inexplicably, Zadrozny has yet to write a piece attacking the parents of children who died after being given Tamiflu or other conventional medical treatments.

It would require more than one article to address all of the falsehoods contained in this one piece, so I will try to stick to the most pertinent ones:

First, the article's headline suggests that the boy died because members of the Facebook group convinced the mother not to give her son Tamiflu. In fact, in her post to the group (which is quoted in the article), the mother states that she did not pick up the Tamiflu her doctor had prescribed. This was not a decision she was led to by anyone in the group, but one she had already made.