In May 2020, a well-produced video called “Plandemic” rocketed across Facebook, receiving eight million views in a week. The video starred Dr. Judy Mikovits, a scientist with a history of making bizarre claims. Her reputation as a researcher had been badly damaged in 2011 by a controversy over a paper she wrote positing that chronic fatigue syndrome was caused by a virus. Mikovits’s paper on the mysterious illness had initially seemed to be a breakthrough, but the journal that published it retracted her findings after other labs failed to replicate them. Rather than grappling with the failure,
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