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For the House Republicans, the scientific method itself is now evidence of conspiracy
They seized on a snippet of a researcher’s email in which he and colleagues tried to disprove the lab leak theory. Yes, that’s science.
Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist and judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled Against the Light: The Deep State Myth from the Illuminati to QAnon.
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Robert F Kennedy, antivaxer extraordinaire, can’t help himself
Reputational rehab wasn't going to be easy, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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We need gun control, not perverse legal precedents
Criminalizing ordinary people in impossible situations is grotesque.
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He received mercy from a system he sought to destroy
Stewart Rhodes’ lawyers seemed shocked by his sentence.
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The Feinstein Dementia Mitigation Team
Neither the senator nor the people of California are well-served by this grotesque spectacle, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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AI isn’t what it’s said to be
ChatGPT and others are fancy autocomplete.
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Lawyer for Enrique Tarrio, ex-Proud Boys leader, has a point
Trump was the unindicted co-conspirator in the court room.
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Conspiracist, potential mass shooter and favorite of Marjorie Taylor Greene
On Discord leaker Jack Teixeira.
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Facing embarrassingly weak test case, has SCOTUS' rightwing supermajority lost its nerve?
The current bid to yank mifepristone off the market is legal hackery whose sponsors deserve points only for shrewd venue-shopping.
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Blue states are moving to protect abortion rights and trans rights against a red state power grab
The far right refined a common playbook for projecting the power of red states beyond their borders, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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Idaho Republicans want to keep doctors from treating ectopic pregnancies
It’s all about the uncertainty, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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CDC, FDA eviscerate Doctor Antivax
Ron DeSantis believes that antivax is the fast lane to the White House, and Dr. Ladapo is his eager co-pilot.