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RFK Jr. and Jordan Peterson's D.C. roundtable shows why "alternative medicine" went full MAGA

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Robert Kennedy Jr. joined a Capitol roundtable hosted by the far-right Sen. Ron Johnson , R-Wisc. Marcotte : Kennedy 's endorsement of Donald Trump is nonsense.

She says the anti-science and anti-progress woo-woo peddlers are settling into their natural home: the MAGA movement.

Marcotte says the alt-medicine industry is a bigger fan of predatory capitalism than the pharmaceutical industry.

For the "tradwife" crowd, it's about rejecting the scientific advances of modern medicine for their imagined past when people used "natural" remedies.

In both cases, they're wrong. Modern life has drawbacks, but on the whole, people in the U.S. are healthier, freer, and safer than they have been throughout most of history.

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English

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60

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