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The belief that vaccines are dangerous and related anti-vax views
SciCheck Digest Human coronaviruses first identified in the 1960s cause common colds. But a viral video misrepresents early research on common coronaviruses and cites unrelated patents to falsely suggest U.S. scientists created the viruses that cause SARS and COVID-19. The video also is not footage …
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In 2016, the Oxford English Dictionary made ‘post-truth’ its word of the year, signaling a turn in Western politics towards not just competing narratives based on a shared understanding of the facts, but of competing facts themselves. The ‘paranoid style in American politics’ that Richard …
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In 2021 the U.S. surgeon general called on physicians and public health scientists to combat misinformation on social media. Many answered the plea, and many have faced unprecedented levels of harassment on social media as a result.A new research letter published yesterday (June 14) in the journal …
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In a discussion with the popular Canadian YouTube commentator Jordan B Peterson on June 5, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. presidential candidate, anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer repeated false talking points that Russia has used to justify its war on Ukraine. Kennedy claimed the war …
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A man with no experience running elections and who believes the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, the 9/11 attack was faked, and QAnon is real has been chosen by a county in Iowa to oversee its elections, including the critical 2024 presidential election.David Whipple was appointed last …
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Would you believe that a fifth of the adult population of Britain have either taken part in anti-vax protests, or are prepared to do so? Or that about 4 million people have attended protests against the introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)? What about the idea that The Light, an …
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Vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes his uncle was assassinated by the CIA. He told Joe Rogan that he’s “aware” that he, too, could be targeted by U.S. intelligence — but he doesn’t “live in fear” of the possibility. Kennedy has …
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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on his conspiracy theory on his uncle JFK’s assassination and his anti-vaccine stance. Kennedy appeared in Joe Rogan’s podcast episode that aired Thursday, and Rogan began the show by promising not to interrupt the son of the late …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for president, and thus on leave as the chairman of the Children’s Health Defense. The group, like its founder, has spent the past few years pushing misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines. It has also, as Media Matters reported on Wednesday, been using the …
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Content warning: This piece quotes racist slurs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s group Children’s Health Defense sought support from users of the far-right social media platform Gab in 2021, including white supremacists, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and an open neo-Nazi. Those users have written things …
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