Dr. Steven Novella

And then, you know, he came to his anti-vax position and...

from my perspective, through the environmental pathway.

Because anti-vaccine, you know, the subculture is a multi-headed monster, right?

There are, you know, liberal anti-vaxxers, conservative anti-vaxxers, and there's environmentalists and anti-vaxxers.

They all have kind of a different path to that, different take on it.

And there are the parents.

There's different reasons why you might come to that conclusion.

And I think he, as a, you know, his job was suing corporations about poisoning the public.

Right.

And so this was just right along with that narrative.

Oh, the corporations are poisoning the public with mercury.

He's already been an anti-mercury activist for environmental reasons.

So he, it sort of fit with his narrative and,

And his narrative just continued to evolve over the decades to become more and more conspiratorial, anti-government, anti-corporate.

Everything's a poison.

And he thinks now that he's a scientist.

He can interpret the scientific.

Meanwhile, he's so incompetent at it.

He doesn't even know the difference between risk and hazard, for example, or absolute and relative, like basic things that you should know.

Tell the audience.