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#1820 Science and Public Health Under Attack by Our Own Government

#1820 Science and Public Health Under Attack by Our Own Government3 sept3 h 02 min

Air Date: 9/2/2026

Today we look at how public health is being gutted by a system that took ordinary parental worry and organized, radicalized and monetized it into an anti-science "wellness" movement large enough to seize real political power.

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