"It was the doctors in pre-Nazi Germany in the early thirties who were co-opted by the National Socialists and sent to do exactly what we're seeing kind of replaying now. It was the medical organisations in the early thirties who were emboldened to be the arbiters of, you know, "life worthy of life, life unworthy of life"’, um, and to, kind of, medicalise and pathologise dissent or difference. So we're seeing wholesale purchasing of the medical establishment in the United States, in Britain and in countries around the world to do things much more serious."
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Naomi Wolf appeared on Mark Steyn's program on GB News (October 4, 2022). The station was found by British broadcasting regulator Ofcom in May 2023 to have contravened its Broadcasting Code by presenting a "serious, unchallenged conspiracy theory" in its Vaccine misinformation from Steyn and Wolf.
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