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Maintenance Phase · December 20, 2024 · 54m
Bonus: RFK Jr.
A special episode on RFK Jr.'s appointment to HHS: his anti-vaccine history, his MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) rhetoric, and why wellness populism is dangerous when it has institutional power.
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Hobbes argues that RFK Jr.'s appeal is a product of the environment: decades of pharma corruption, FDA regulatory capture, and food industry lobbying created the trust vacuum that conspiracy fills.
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Wellness populism — when valid health critiques get captured by conspiracy
Hobbes traces how RFK Jr. combines legitimate health concerns (UPFs, environmental toxins, pharma corruption) with conspiracy thinking (vaccine autism, 5G, fluoride paranoia), making it impossible to address the real problems because they're bundled with fake ones.Was this useful?