AIDS denialism. COVID denialism. Vaccine denialism. Deadly quackery is on the rise. This isn't healthy iconoclasm as some have suggested that will wilt under peer review. It's toxic and impervious to logic. Call it out for what it is. My latest for The Nation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Joe Rogan, RFK Jr., and others are pushing long-discredited conspiracy junk about HIV and AIDS. Here’s how we should deal with them.
Joe rogan is such a dangerous fascist piece of turd...
Thank you. One note I don't see mentioned - Brett Weinstein already holds an official public health advisor role in the state of Florida, where he sits in their Public Health Integrity Committee. He did a roundtable w DeSantis days before this Rogan appearance.
There’s even virus denialism.
Your point on Trump reminds me of my shame in suggesting that he wasn't as unhinged as he seemed: "Statements made in the white heat of a presidential campaign cannot, we hope on many counts, be considered government policy" (www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... ) We now know the danger he represents
John Perry Barlow's 'internet manifesto' 1996 The ultimate how it started/how its going In retrospect, it should have been obvious that if the intent was to democratize the internet and remove gatekeepers altogether, the result would represent the lowest common denominator of society; here we are.