Viewpoint: Why do online health lies outlive the evidence that debunks them? Read “Everyone Else Is Lying to You” Katie Suleta | September 25, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/25/viewpoint-why-do-online-health-lies-outlive-the-evidence-that-debunks-them-read-everyone-else-is-lying-to-you/ Medical misinformation has a peculiar advantage: it can outlive the evidence that disproves it, especially when yesterday’s contrarians become today’s policymakers. In Everyone Else Is Lying to You, physician Jonathan Howard keeps the receipts, documenting what prominent COVID dissenters actually said—and asking how being spectacularly wrong became, for some, a pathway to influence rather than irrelevance.