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A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: The Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline
🕑 Added 2025-10-31 15:01:17 +0000 UTCIn this Citations Needed Beg-A-Thon, "The Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline: MAHA, TikTok and Health in an Era of Cynicism," recorded live on Monday, October 13, we are joined by social epidemiologist Justin Feldman to discuss the rise of Trump and RFK, Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again grift, the transparent fraud of the so-called "health freedom" movement, and how corporate-written food policies and for-profit medical system fuel an industry of digital influencer hucksterism.
Originally streamed on YouTube for a live audience on Monday, October 13. You can watch the full video here.
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Guest
Justin Feldman, ScD (@jfeldman_epi), is a social epidemiologist who researches health, racism, economic inequality and state violence. Previously a professor of epidemiology at the NYU School of Medicine, he is now Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Policing Equity at Yale University Lab.
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Show Notes
'Health Freedom' is a Fraud. What We Need is a Right to Health
Justin Feldman | March 3, 2025 | Current Affairs
The surprising origins of the “wellness” boom
Jonquilyn Hill | August 12, 2025 | Vox
Every 100 Years America Produces a Robert Kennedy Jr.
Jessica Grose | February 15, 2025 | The New York Times
The strange history of the anti-vaccine movement
David Robert Grimes | September 7, 2025 | BBC
The unsavory history of the wellness industry
Jonathan N. Stea | January 29, 2025 | Big Think
How a For-Profit Healthcare System Generates Mistrust of Medicine
Lauren Fadiman | Nov/Dec 2022 | Current Affairs
Michelle Cohen | October 11, 2022 | Healthy Debate
Eugenics and the American Religion of Wellness
Jules Evans | July 8, 2022 | Medium
Fascist Ecology: The "Green Wing" of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents
Peter Staudenmaier | 1995 | Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience
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Transcript
For a full transcript of this Beg-a-Thon, go here. You can also find transcripts of past episodes, live shows, Beg-a-Thons, Interviews and News Briefs here.
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Credits
Senior Producer: Florence Barrau-Adams
Producer: Julianne Tveten
Production Assistant: Trendel Lightburn
Newsletter: Marco Cartolano
Music: Grandaddy
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