Leah Feiger
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1,642 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Leah Feiger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I wanted attention on this.
So that's that's perhaps what's making me feel slightly better about it.
But I will say there's another pattern that has really been bringing up, especially like in the last, I would say, five, six days or so, which is the rise of conspiracy theories around it.
Look.
Conspiracy theories around health are nothing new.
I think that we all experienced a very intense rash of them during the COVID pandemic.
Wired's David Gilbert, this week he reported on how conspiracy theorists, wellness influencers, and grifters have all started promoting wild claims about the outbreak.
A lot of them that are really using the same playbook as COVID, saying that it's another way to control the global population.
Yes, the horse deworming drug as a treatment.
It's back.
It's back, with no evidence, obviously, whatsoever to back this claim.
This has really been spreading all over the internet and all of the usual places.
It's taking on a really interesting life that while the COVID conspiracy theories very much did as well, something that's a little bit interesting and a little bit different, at least in this very specific moment, is you're not actually, we don't have a Fauci anymore.
That's going, no, no, guys, this is not what's going on.
The CDC and HHS are not built for that anymore.
Like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our lovely HHS secretary, is not getting on like a public radio program every day.
He's not sitting in on the news going like, don't worry, here are the steps that we're taking, X, Y, and Z. So this lack of communication is
gives so much space for conspiracy theories to grow.
And experts that David spoke to were just like, this is obviously going to continue with a lack of information.
Even if other infectious disease experts are going, this is not COVID, like we're slightly more ready for this, this is going to be okay.
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