Misinformation Mailbag

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Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Listeners have written in with questions on all kinds of pandemic misinformation about masks, supplements, vaccines, and more. So this week, Jim and Katherine talk about conspiracy theories, false remedies, and how to talk to the people that believe in them. Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at www.theatlantic.com/supportus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Jim, Catherine, and Kevin, I suppose. I have been waiting eagerly for the next
0:06.8	podcast and it hasn't come. The last was about Thanksgiving travel and why nobody should do it,
0:12.2	which of course a lot of people did do it and we have to wait for the results of that.
0:17.0	But now I am wondering did they all get COVID? Are they in a cloud someplace?
0:24.0	Have they been stranded on the road?
0:26.0	Is Catherine has she been eaten by her puppy?
0:28.0	And yet I don't know what's going on anymore.
0:30.0	And now I have to wait for these people to reappear at some point.
0:34.4	Jim, we forgot to tell people we were taking a week off.
0:45.0	I didn't know we were taking a week off.
0:47.0	I forgot to tell you that you were taking a week off.
0:51.0	So...
0:53.0	It's healthy.
0:54.0	That was our first week off since the beginning of the pandemic.
0:57.0	Yeah, so...
0:58.0	Sorry.
0:59.0	Sorry we didn't tell you.
1:00.0	That was really bad form.
1:02.0	But no, I didn't get eaten by my puppy yet but we'll keep you
1:06.0	posted on that front and we are back and we will continue doing weekly. The
1:12.1	listener very astutely noted that yes,
1:14.5	millions of people went to Thanksgiving.
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