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May 2025
47m 12s

The Canard of Epidemic Denial

Little Everywhere
About this episode

This week, host Jane Marie talks to Senior White House Correspondent for The Independent, Eric Garcia, who was recently charged with covering the Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr's, autism press conference. Eric, who is himself autistic, breaks down the pseudoscience and misinformation RFK Jr has been using the power of his office to disseminate, as the two of them search for the motives behind his crusade.



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