Netflix's Afflicted accused of televising prejudice against the chronically ill

Los Angeles Times

The docuseries that follows seven people with "bizarre" health problems wrongly portrays them as "being freaks utterly unlike normal healthy people," says Julie Rehmeyer. She adds: "Whatever the series’ professed intent, Afflicted is a compendium of scientific and ethical flaws. The narrative that emerges is clear: These people are causing their own problems through their bad choices, and they are not like you. 'You' are good and normal; 'they' are bad and strange."