In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.
  • Botzo@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I think you will enjoy this recent episode of the This Machine Kills podcast.

    We discuss Quinn’s analysis of “new fusionism” or a mutant strain of neoliberalism that crystallized in the 1990s, which sought to ground and defend neoliberal policies through their own bastardization of biological sciences — cognitive, behavioral, evolutionary, genetic, and so on. They then used scientism to justify and propagate political ideas and economic models based on hardwired human nature and hierarchical differences between races, cultures, and intelligence. The fringes of the 1990s have now become the mainstream of the 2020s.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      Fuck me. Except now they are anything BUT scientific. And if I remember correctly (and i have to rely on 20+ years old memories since none of those old forums were archived anywhere) many of the people posting probably had no idea where their own ideas came from, which would explain a lot.