Marxist Epidemiologist Calls Bullsh*t on Antivaxxers, Details COVID's Capitalist Roots

from Rania Khalek Dispatches · host Rania Khalek

Anti-scientific conspiracy theories are spreading, not just among the right, but even among some segments of the left. To address this issue from a Marxist perspective, Rania Khalek spoke with Rob Wallace, an evolutionary epidemiologist at the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps in St. Paul and author of “Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19.”

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