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The Book Club: Armando Iannucci

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The Science of Epidemiology Has Been Sucked Into the Culture Wars

epidemiology has been so thoroughly, kind of sucked into the culture wars. You know, to go back to poetry, where a word can mean two different things simultaneously. And it's not so much trump, his supporters and enablers who have allowed us to reach the stage where half his country still thinks that the vaccines don't work. Quite a lot of his country thinks that he genuanly did win the election.Quite a large percentage of them actually think that the raid on congress on january sixth didn't happen. I mean, that's the stage we're at now, where objective truth has been so queried and quizzed.

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