what I've learned from Corbyn & Sanders is that if you even come close to challenging power as a decent, honest person playing by established rules you'll be smeared ceaselessly by cynical disgusting jackals with bottomless resources until your career & reputation is destroyed

Yeah, you can add another name in there.

Right. That whole “crazy wacky crystal lady anti-medicine anti-science dangerous crazy grifter” thing was simply a reasonable journalistic description. If you think that, that just means you bought it.