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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><i> </i></b>So saith Paul Krugman: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.html</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=quotation>Once you’re sensitized to the link between snake oil and right-wing politics, you realize that it’s pervasive.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=quotation>This is clearly true in the right’s fever swamps. Alex Jones of Infowars has built a following by pushing conspiracy theories, but he makes money by selling <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html" target="_blank">nutritional supplements</a>. It’s also true, however, for more mainstream, establishment parts of the right. For example, Ben Shapiro, considered an intellectual on the right, hawks supplements.Look at <a href="https://tvrev.com/whos-still-advertising-with-tucker-carlson-at-the-end-of-q2-2021/" target="_blank">who advertises</a> on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. After Fox itself, the top advertisers are My Pillow, then three supplement companies.Snake oil peddlers, clearly, find consumers of right-wing news and punditry a valuable market for their wares. So it shouldn’t be surprising to find many right-leaning Americans ready to see vaccination as a liberal plot and turn to dubious alternatives — although, again, I didn’t see livestock dewormer coming.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>