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Things Fell Apart: We're coming after you, honey

Jon Ronson charts how a startling medical scandal led to the creation of the first Covid conspiracy theory.

Jon Ronson explores how a chance encounter in a yacht club in the early 2000s, between a bartender and a very wealthy couple whose daughter was sick with a mystery disease, ended with the creation of the first great Covid conspiracy theory.

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