2023-11-06
18 分钟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.