Half the Answer #43: MAHA and the Climate Deniers: Who Are These People?!

Caitlin M. Green, Trent R. Nelson, Walker Bragman Oct 21, 2025

Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist Walker Bragman about the various crises in public health and climate change, the people who helped bring us here, and the dark money that funded it. They discuss the ways disinformation is packaged and spread to discourage the public from being able to access the services and tools they need to live.

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Resources

https://www.accountabilityjournalism.org/

https://www.importantcontext.news/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/its-time-for-soft-secession/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215462/dark-money-by-jane-mayer/

https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-tramples-the-truth

https://cli.stanford.edu/events/conference-symposium/academic-freedom-conference

https://psr.org/event/911-march-for-health-science/

Published in: Half the Answer, Podcast

Authors

Caitlin Green is a linguist specializing in Discourse Studies and Pragmatics. She lives in California with her husband, two daughters, and a very small black cat.

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Trent R. Nelson is a poet, historian, and philosopher, as well as a political and socioeconomic analyst. He is the managing editor for MWF Springfield and a contributing editor with Liberal Currents.

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Walker Bragman is a journalist tracking dark money and attacks on public health. He is a co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute.

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