How to disrupt America's history of re-branding misinformation as 'science'
CNN
We are living in a dangerously unprecedented moment of misinformation-fueled distrust and division about Covid-19, writes historian Nicole Hemmer, but medical misinformation -- the deliberate spread of demonstrably untrue claims for politics or profit -- has been a feature of life in the US throughout the nation's history. Understanding that is key to addressing the near-total breakdown of hope for a return to normal, she argues.
But then came the Delta variant, and the vaccine resisters, and the state efforts to ban mask and vaccine mandates -- and suddenly what once felt like the beginning of the end revealed itself to be a momentary pause.
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