Indeed, gone are the days when these types of stories would struggle for
traction in a media landscape dominated by a few television networks,
newspapers, and radio stations. Now anyone on Facebook can take their
snake oil straight to the masses — and their message is reverberating in
the highest levels of government. Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy
Jr., who says he’s in touch with Trump about a “vaccine safety commission,”
recently announced a $100,000 “challenge” to prove their safety. Andrew
Wakefield, who helped start the anti-vaccine movement with a fraudulent
1998 study that linked vaccines to autism, showed up at an inaugural ball. The president has called climate change a “hoax” and appointed a skeptic to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Pseudoscience is closer than ever to the mainstream.
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