The online groups who believe germs don't exist - BBC World Service, BBC Trending Extreme podcast

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2023-11-06

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Conspiracy theories about viruses and vaccines have exploded in recent years. At the same time, something arguably stranger ...
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  • You cannot give proof that the virus exists.

  • You better start giving me the proof.

  • People have sent me all sorts of very nasty messages about this.

  • I know that they exist.

  • I've.

  • I've seen them.

  • So when people say that they're not real, I don't know where this is coming from.

  • I mean, we have so many different things we can do to show that, yes, viruses are real things and yes, they can make us sick.

  • Disagreements are part of life.

  • You might even say they're a sign of a healthy society when we can vote for different political parties and hold different opinions about the best ways to solve a problem or just how to live our lives.

  • But what about when the line between opinion and fact gets blurred?

  • I've called them kind of the flat earthers of biology, because similar to flat earth, we can show pictures of the earth being round and people will still deny it.

  • You're listening to trending, and I'm Rachel Schreyer, the BBC's health and disinformation reporter.

  • In our Extreme series, we're exploring the way social media is shaping behavior and beliefs on the fringes of the Internet.

  • I've been investigating a small but growing community of people who have taken rejecting mainstream medicine to.

  • To the extreme.

  • In South Africa, they are awakening memories of a painful chapter in the country's recent history.

  • Hi, I'm Dr.

  • Wilson.

  • I'm a PhD molecular biologist.