Question Everything: The Sunscreen Paradox
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The episode discusses a conspiracy theory about sunscreen causing skin cancer, propagated by Matt Gaetz and Nicholas Hulscher, and its spread through media.
While the What Next team enjoys the holiday, hear this episode from our friends at Question Everything . Mary will be back in the feed with a new episode of What Next tomorrow. In June, disgraced former Florida Congressman turned right-wing One America News Network anchor Matt Gaetz peddled a novel and dangerous conspiracy to his audience: that using sunscreen causes skin cancer. Gaetz’s guest was Nicholas Hulscher, a prominent voice in the COVID anti-vaccination movement and co-author of one of the most prolific medical disinformation newsletters in America. Within days, this false claim had reached millions of viewers and dozens of countries – and was popping up in the comments of innocuous mommy blogger videos about applying suntan lotion to kids. NewsGuard health editor John Gregory explains how Hulscher’s false claim metastasized throughout the internet, and how he sold it to the world by twisting the surprising findings of a legitimate scientific study. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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