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How did the "wellness" movement evolve into the toxic anti-vax movement?

Some ardent proponents of anti-vax alternative-facts conspiracy theories are also leaders of the "wellness/alternative health" movement. How did that head-scratching reality happen?

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Dr. Elana Sztokman
Nov 24, 2021
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One of the jaw-dropping moments of 2021 — the January 6 storming of Congress — will be forever memorialized by Shaman Man, the bare-chested tattoo guy with fur, horns, and red-white-and-blue face paint howling from the behind the Speaker’s desk. As most of us watched in shock figuring out how this creature came about and why, the man behind the costume…

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