Ty Bollinger
Ty Bollinger (born 1968) is an American misinformation marketer and conspiracy theorist who promotes alternative medicine treatments for cancer and vaccine-preventable diseases. Bollinger has no medical training and has a history of disseminating misinformation about cancer treatments, anti-vaccine conspiracies, promoting ineffective or unproven cures, and other conspiracy theories on social media platforms. With his wife Charlene, he runs the website The Truth About Cancer and its associated social media accounts, where they sell books, videos, and nutritional supplements based on these ideas. Biography Bollinger is a former bodybuilder, and has no medical training. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and their children. He attributes his interest in alternative cancer treatments to losing several relatives to cancer, starting with his father in 1996. Not unlike anti-vaccination activists, he presents himself as a right-to-choose advocate rather than being anti-medicine. The Truth About Cancer The couple's main website is The Truth About Cancer, established in 2014. It promotes misinformation about cancer, notably that chemotherapy doesn't cure the disease, and functions as a merchandising platform for their numerous instructional videos, as well as food supplements, alternative health books, and treatments. The reach of the videos can be considerable, some having been viewed millions