“My goodness, where do you dig up bilge like this? And why do you fall for whoever is spewing it?”
It’s not “bilge.” She has a right to have an opinion.
And I think you owe your fellow Freeper an apology.
Everything she said is based on misinformation she read on some quack or con-man's website and it *is* bilge. As a scientist, I feel I have an ethical obligation to point out quackery. I realize that many people have emotional attachments to the bilge spewed by con-men, and I am not going to speculate on the psychology of how con-men convince people that they are more trustworthy than actual experts--but what I have always done, and will continue to do, is point out to people when they are repeating pseudoscience.
Pseudoscience, at best, convinces people to spend money needlessly. At its worst, it kills people. Either they forego needed medical treatments, or they consume unsafe "remedies". Because it is not a harmless little preoccupation like belief in UFOs, I actually spend quite a bit of time and energy trying to educate people who are taken in by it.
She is scare-mongering out of ignorance.