Actually, it's not true that anyone can give unsolicited or stupid medical advice.  It's a felony.  It’s one thing to make a general statement like “It’s not healthy to smoke,” or “I recommend chicken soup for colds.”  It’s not a crime to write about conditions with all the ignorance in the world. It crosses the line when someone gives specific advice about a particular person’s illness.  In the case of Ragen’s advice to the pseudotumor patient, she is “practicing medicine” by commenting, as if she were qualified to give an expert second medical opinion, on the treatments suggested by physicians to a specific patient, and then making recommendations. Looking at case law from the past, charges have brought been against a hypnotist who offered treatment for diabetes and a healer who sold tonics to cancer patients.  Neither of those people were purporting to be doctors, they simply weren’t qualified to provide their "treatments to people with medical conditions.    Ragen Chastain has been peddling a bogus healthcare plan called HAES on the internet. If you look at her Linkedin acoount she lists “nutrition” and “healthcare” as skills that obviously she knows nothing about.  It is legal for her to do these things.  The moment she stuck her nose into a specific person’s medical treatment, she crossed the line and is now a criminal.