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The belief that fluoridated water is dangerous
Sam Whitney/The New York TimesRobert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month that the new Trump administration would recommend removing fluoride from public water supplies. The suggestion that fluoride was unsafe was immediately criticized by many public health experts as anti-science misinformation.But …
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Sam Whitney/The New York TimesRobert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month that the new Trump administration would recommend removing fluoride from public water supplies. The suggestion that fluoride was unsafe was immediately criticized by many public health experts as anti-science misinformation.But …
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President-elect Donald Trump has named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice for the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.The HHS secretary is a Cabinet-level position, and thus has to be nominated and confirmed by the Senate Committee on Finance. But the announcement …
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In the waning days of his campaign, former President Donald Trump has further embraced some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s incorrect or controversial views on health, including vaccines and fluoride. In a Nov. 3 telephone interview with NBC News’ Dasha Burns, Trump appeared open to removing fluoride in …
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Uscinski JE, Enders AM. Conspiracy theories: a primer. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield; 2023. Google Scholar van Prooijen J-W, Douglas KM. Conspiracy theories as part of history: the role of societal crises. Mem Stud. 2017;10(3):323–33.Article Google Scholar Uscinski J, Enders A, Klofstad C, Seelig …
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It’s been too short a time since I last wrote about the antivaccine myth of “shedding,” particularly in the context of COVID-19 vaccines. As you might recall, shedding is a real phenomenon, but only for vaccines made from live attenuated virus (LAV); i.e. vaccines that use a weakened version of the …
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On October 4, about a hundred people began filing into a community hall in Stroud, a pretty town in southern England that, like many of its peers, has a vein of disaffection and despondency running just under the surface. They were gathering to discuss the appearance of a new paper in the town …
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Gemma O’Doherty Telegram ChannelBy Marianna SpringBBC Disinformation and social media correspondentA grieving mother and her lawyer have been targeted by an extreme campaign of abuse after suing a conspiracy theory newspaper which falsely claimed her son died from a Covid vaccine.The Irish Light …
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For decades, he was a superstar environmental lawyer who demanded that Americans should accept and act on the scientific consensus that climate change is real. He specialized in cases in which corporations had hidden the environmental or health costs of their products. His legal work against …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Tuesday night in what his campaign billed as a major foreign policy address for the long shot Democratic presidential candidate.He told the crowd that he believes the U.S. government bears some responsibility for …
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