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Oct 6, 2025
Join a lively discussion about the rise of the Make America Healthy Again movement. The conversation dives into how corporate-written food policies and the profit-driven medical system foster hucksterism. The hosts highlight the intriguing link between wellness trends and radical politics, drawing connections to conspiratorial movements like QAnon and 5G theories. Plus, there's a call for listener support to fuel their unique, thought-provoking content.
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From Legit Frustration To Political Grift
- The show will examine how organic frustrations with healthcare and food culture morphed into a politicized, anti-science movement.
- Hosts frame Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again as a health-freedom grift that weaponizes those frustrations.
Anti-Science Turn Benefits Polluters
- The movement ignored science and ended up serving the political aims of polluters and unsafe-food interests.
- Hosts highlight a trajectory from critique of industry to alignment with the forces those critiques purportedly opposed.
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