<div dir="auto">If they're influencing their children along those lines this is, as we have discussed, natural selection at work. I wonder if the effect on future elections will be measurable.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 8:18 AM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-4591229068201768505WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i> </i></b>So saith Paul Krugman: <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.html</a> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_-4591229068201768505quotation">Once you’re sensitized to the link between snake oil and right-wing politics, you realize that it’s pervasive.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_-4591229068201768505quotation">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" rel="noreferrer">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" rel="noreferrer">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>
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