It is not unreasonable to try and write in a fashion which attempts (perhaps unsuccessfully?) to coax people away from Mercola’s world. Even if you are fully steeped in that alt-med rabbithole, I would hope the revelation that Mercola’s information often comes from ChatGPT (“because it has no reason to lie”) would be enough to give someone pause.

Perhaps it’s not, but fair credit to the compassion of the author for the assumption that it might.

(Disclosure: I know the author personally, though we have not discussed this topic)

I suppose for a lot of the population, this bit of "science" (what CO2 is and what effects it has) is as comprehensible as how vaccines or mRNA work, and if they trust the snake oil salespeople like they trust proper scientists they can be very misled.

But hey, surely the wealthiest country in the world properly funds K-12 schools, right?