Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health-Branded Fascism
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In this Live Show Beg-a-Thon from 10/13, we are joined by Justin Feldman to discuss the rise of MAHA, the broader Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline and how corporate-written food policies and our shitty for-profit medical system fuel hucksterism.
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| 1:18.7 | like a bunch of petty tyrants. That's right. Now, tonight on citations needed, we'll be talking |
| 1:23.7 | about what we're calling the granola to fascist pipeline, how decades of pseudoscientific |
| 1:29.0 | notions of health and wellness have helped usher in the so-called make America healthy again. |
| 1:35.3 | Movements, not really movement, but the movement led, of course, by none other than, weird to |
| 1:40.4 | even say this, current Health and Human Services Secretary and also vehement Tylenol opponent, |
| 1:46.4 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yeah, we thought this was kind of a perfect, very much in our wheelhouse, |
| 1:51.9 | because it combines a reoccurring trend we talk about on the right, which is this kind of false |
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