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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump‘s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is well known for his anti-vaccine stance and dabbling in junk science. But ahead of his potential confirmation, more details of his conspiracist views on Covid-19 have come to light — including the fact that Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit he helped found, financed one of the most viral misinformation campaigns of the pandemic.

“We have a film division at Children’s Health Defense,” Kennedy said in a clip from a virtual interview shared...

On Saturday night, in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, Covid conspiracist filmmaker Mikki Willis debuted the fourth film in his Plandemic series to an audience of about 150 fans and fellow travelers. Then, before he and his cast and crew could get into a planned Q&a session, the audience was told it had about five minutes to clear out of the ballroom venue.

“I did not know that,” Willis said after confirming with event workers the screening space had to be empty by 8 p.m.

Unlike the first...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. convened a panel of health misinformation superstars on Tuesday evening for a roundtable discussion that suggested his medical conspiracism will be a key component of his 2024 presidential run. During the unfiltered conversation, he falsely suggested that millions of deaths in the Great Influenza (or “Spanish flu”) epidemic of 1918 could be attributed to vaccine experiments.

The long-shot candidate — known for promoting the debunked link between vaccines and autism, and opposing Covid-19 vaccination efforts — was joined in conversation by four doctors as well as several influencers and alternative medicine promoters,...

Another week, another episode of the Pop Addled podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly!

Pop Addled is a pop culture podcast with nerd tendencies. Join Keenan, Sam and Timmy as they discuss movies, music, video games, sports, TV, comics, and any intersection thereof. Their brains have been thoroughly addled by pop culture and they’re here to share their twisted thoughts with you!

If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out old episode on Libsyn and iTunes; and we’ll be bringing you the latest episodes each and every week.

Pop Addled – Episode 433: Plandemic

Allegedly Covid is actually a thing (sarcasm) and Keenan got it, so Harrison and Michael from Doom Thugs filled in to riff about life with Timmy. Please rate review and enjoy!

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If you think the Covid-19 pandemic was the first time the far right took strange health advice proffered by wellness devotees, think again. Bodily sovereignty and purity tests have long been part of fascist and white nationalist playbooks. Bipartisanship has a way of dissolving when it comes to the body — especially, as it now seems, when it comes testicle tanning, or so says Tucker Carlson.

In the nineteenth century, German strongman Eugen Sandow was the bodybuilding poster boy. Sandow was born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller; “Eugen” was allegedly short for “eugenics,...

As a journalist covering QAnon and fascism in Los Angeles, I’ve seen a lot in the past couple years. I’ve seen danger and violence, heard crazy conspiracies and angry confrontations, and tracked a movement as it spirals deeper and deeper into insanity. It has worn on me, and there are things I’ve seen that I’d like to forget, like people yelling “save our children,” a chant that drones on and on like an endless scream inside your mind.

I went to see it all again last Sunday,...

With multiple promising candidates for Covid-19 vaccines inching closer to becoming a reality, much of the world is looking forward to a near-ish future marked by safe indoor family gatherings, live music, and drunken karaoke nights. But public health researchers are still concerned that some Americans, in their unwillingness to get vaccinated, will possibly endanger the rest of the public — and this fear is justified, according to two studies released this week.

A National Geographic survey of 2,201 Americans found that 69 percent of men said they would take a Covid-19 vaccine,...