• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    America doesn’t just do this domestically.

    They do. It’s just tied up in the private sector. Tons of quackery on American TV and in news journals. Everything from “Head On, Apply Directly to The Forehead” to Dr Oz shilling ginseng as a panacea to the social media conspiracies about MedBeds that Trump himself retweeted.

    The CIA undermined polio vaccination programs in Pakistan when global eradication actually seemed possible.

    Can’t let the wrong kind of people benefit