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“Fauci’s Disease”: How a Conspiracy Theory Retired Into a Punchline
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On Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast Ep 628, at 54:24.84 "He was looking for a cure to Fauci's disease."
The claim riding inside that possessive — AIDS is attributable to Anthony Fauci — is false. Truth score 0.03, confidence 0.92.
Nobody on the episode argues it. It's a two-word noun phrase dropped into an argument about whether "November Rain" beats "Enter Sandman." That's what makes it worth an episode: the claim has stopped being asserted. There is no proposition left for a correction to attach to.
The timeline forecloses it. HIV-1…
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