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95 Horwitz, Broken Code, 178–179.

96 Klein, Doppelganger, 110.

97 Derek Thompson, “The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man,” The Atlantic, April 1, 2021, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-wrongest-man/618475.

98 “Leaderboard: Top Politics publications,” Substack, https://substack.com/leaderboard/politics.

99 Naomi Nix, Cat Zakrzewski, and Joseph Menn, “Misinformation Research Is Buckling Under GOP Legal Attacks,” Washington Post, September 23, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan.

100 Charles Silver and David A. Hyman, “COVID-19: A Case Study of Government Failure,” Pandemics and Policy Series, Cato Institute, September 15, 2020, https://www.cato.org/pandemics-policy/covid-19-case-study-government-failure.

101 Eric Reinhart, “Why U.S. Pandemic Management Has Failed: Lack of Attention to America’s Epidemic Engines,” STAT, October 5, 2021, https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/05/jails-prisons-schools-nursing-homes-america-epidemic-engines; Eric Lipton et al., “The C.D.C. Waited ‘Its Entire Existence for This Moment.’ What Went Wrong?,” New York Times, June 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/cdc-coronavirus.html; Derek Thompson, “Why America’s Institutions Are Failing,” The Atlantic, June 16, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/why-americas-institutions-are-failing/613078; Erika Edwards, “How the CDC’s Communication Failures During Covid Tarnished the Agency,” NBC News, October 1, 2022, https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdcs-communication-failures-covid-tarnished-agency-rcna46425; “First Lessons from Government Evaluations of COVID-19 Responses: A Synthesis,” OECD, January 21, 2022, https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/first-lessons-from-government-evaluations-of-covid-19-responses-a-synthesis-483507d6; Eleanor Schiff and Daniel J. Mallinson, “Trumping the Centers for Disease Control: A Case Comparison of the CDC’s Response to COVID-19, H1N1, and Ebola,” Administration & Society 55, no. 1 (2023): 158–183, https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997221112308; Sudip Parikh, “Why We Must Rebuild Trust in Science,” Pew, February 9, 2021, https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archive/winter-2021/why-we-must-rebuild-trust-in-science.

102 Catalina Jaramillo, “It’s Not News, nor ‘Scandalous,’ That Pfizer Trial Didn’t Test Transmission,” FactCheck.org, October 18, 2022, https://www.factcheck.org/2022/10/scicheck-its-not-news-nor-scandalous-that-pfizer-trial-didnt-test-transmission.

103 Reuters Fact Check, “Preventing Transmission Never Required for COVID Vaccines’ Initial Approval; Pfizer Vax Did Reduce Transmission of Early Variants,” Reuters, October 14, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-pfizer-vaccine-transmission/fact-check-preventing-transmission-never-required-for-covid-vaccines-initial-approval-pfizer-vax-did-reduce-transmission-of-early-variants-idUSL1N31F20E.

104 Susanna Naggie et al., “Effect of Ivermectin vs Placebo on Time to Sustained Recovery in Outpatients with Mild to Moderate COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” JAMA 328, no. 16 (2022): 1595–1603, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2797483; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo and Preeti N. Malani, “At a Higher Dose and Longer Duration, Ivermectin Still Not Effective Against COVID-19,” JAMA 329, no. 11 (2023): 897–898, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2801828; Maria Popp et al., “Ivermectin for Preventing and Treating COVID‐19,” Cochrane Library, July 28, 2021, https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD015017.pub2/full.

105 “Claim by Steve Kirsch That the Amish Don’t Experience Autism, Cancer, or High COVID-19 Mortality Because They Don’t Vaccinate Is Baseless,” Health Feedback, https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/claim-steve-kirsch-amish-dont-experience-autism-cancer-high-covid-19-mortality-because-they-dont-vaccinate-baseless.

106 “Twitter Files,” Wikipedia, last modified November 15, 2023, http://en.wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files.

107 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi), “This is a devastating email. Here is Stanford’s Virality project—which partners with multiple state agencies—recommending against ‘stories of true vaccine side effects’ and…,” Twitter, March 10, 2023, Internet Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20230310151556/https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633955467968802816.

108 Mikki Willis, “Is Your Immune System at the Mercy of… Whatever’s Next?,” Plandemic Series, https://plandemicseries.com/Fierce-Immunity.