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Joan Donovan – Pandemic Opportunists

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Joan Donovan – Pandemic Opportunists

Can toothpaste with silver in it cure viruses like COVID-19? No, but there are people who claim to have solutions to this global pandemic, and plenty of people who desparately want to believe them.

Click above to listen to part 1 of Skeptic Check: Covid Conspiracy, featuring Joan Donovan, research director at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

Skeptic Check: Covid Conspiracy:
Part 1: Joan Donovan – Pandemic Opportunists
Part 2: Joan Donovan – The 5G Conspiracy
Part 3: Whitney Phillips – The Gates Gambit
Part 4: Whitney Phillips – Conspiracies Abound!

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