RFK Jr.'s New Lyme Plan Is More Conspiracy Than Science - Gizmodo
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RFK Jr.'s Lyme disease plan shows how conspiracy thinking can hijack public health policy — replacing scientific uncertainty with unfounded certainty.
Conspiracy TheoryEpistemic UncertaintyMotivated ReasoningMisinformation Spread
Theory Briefing
- RFK Jr.'s new Lyme disease plan is framed by Gizmodo as more rooted in conspiracy theory than in scientific evidence.
- Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome has a genuinely uncertain cause — a real knowledge gap that conspiracy narratives exploit.
- When official science admits uncertainty, fringe theories rush in to fill the void, a classic pattern in public health misinformation.