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ICYMI - The Conspiracy Theory Your Parents Are Falling For

ICYMI - The Conspiracy Theory Your Parents Are Falling For7 Oct37 min

What if I told you there was a machine that, using powerful energy and frequencies, could cure everything from common colds to cancers to missing limbs? Well, I’d be lying. And yet, a not-insignificant part of the internet is waiting with baited breath for the arrival of “medbeds,” a QAnon-adjacent conspiracy theory that President Trump has even acknowledged himself. On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate staff writer Molly Olmstead, who spent a year investigating how the myth of medbeds came to be, and found the man behind it all. He regrets everything.

This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.

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