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What the new CDC director has said about vaccines, fluoride and more
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday along party lines, 51 to 47, to confirm Susan Monarez as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. President Trump nominated her for the role in …
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University staff criticised for fire ant treatment and vaccine misinformation
The University of Queensland has defended the “fundamental principles of freedom of speech” of researchers who pushed conspiracy theories and misinformation around fire ant treatments and vaccines.
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Conspiracy theories have leached into public life. Is it scepticism towards power or a complete worldview?
Ideas that were once fringe are increasingly part of Australian public life. Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson say they may not be about a singular event, but an overarching interpretation of how the world works
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On the edge of George Street in Sydney, a woman is wrapped in an upside-down Australian flag. She holds one side of a large banner that reads “GROOM DOGS NOT KIDS”, showing pictures of poodles with ears dyed rainbow and pink.
There are young people, people in their 60s and 70s, parents with children in prams. There are T-shirts imploring you to “think while it’s still legal”. Another person holds a sign declaring their staunch opposition to a town planning initiative that has been erroneously linked to the rollout of a new surveillance regime, “Aussies SAY NO to 15 minute cities. FREEDOM.”
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Donald Trump cannot make the Epstein files go away. Will this be the story that brings him down?
Trump is under huge pressure – even from within his MAGA base – to release the files. But any idea this might bring down the “Teflon” president may be misplaced.
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The Macrons v Candace Owens: lawsuit marks new phase in battle against conspiracy theories
False claim that Brigitte Macron was born a man has roots in pandemic-era France as distrust of politicians peaked
When the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, took the rare step this week of filing a US defamation lawsuit against the rightwing podcaster Candace Owens, it marked a new phase in a legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic against the false claim that Brigitte Macron is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux.
The Macrons’ US lawsuit attacked what it called the “verifiably false and devastating lies” being repeated online by Owens that Brigitte Macron, 72, was born a man. The lawsuit said evidence clearly disproved this “grotesque narrative”, which had become “a campaign of global humiliation” and “relentless bullying on a worldwide scale”.
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RFK Jr to remove preservative thimerosal from all US vaccines
Anti-vaccine campaigns have targeted thimerosal for decades despite no evidence of ingredient causing harm
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, will formally require vaccine makers to remove thimerosal from vaccines.
The ingredient has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns and misinformation for decades. Arguments against the preservative culminated in June, when a key federal vaccine advisory panel, remade with Kennedy’s ideological allies, recommended against the preservative.
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Emanuel, Brigitte Macron sue Candace Owens for claiming French first lady was born a man who groomed her allegedly gay husband
Attorneys for the plaintiffs alleged that Owens pushed fictions that Mrs. Macron “was born a man” and “stole another person’s identity.” …
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