The Snake Oil Salesman
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Before a COVID vaccine had even been announced, prominent anti-vaxxers were working on a plan to discredit it. It's unclear whether their plans were driven by greed or by ideology, but one thing is clear: there's big money in espousing conspiracy theories.And a doctor who lost his medical licence for spreading COVID misinformation tells his side of the story. Could the line between truth and fiction be a little blurrier than we initially thought? Donate to TVO: http://tvo.org/give See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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