Worries about the CDC reliability hover over flu season : NPR

"When they raise doubt on the adjudication that a state may have made around a death, that is highly problematic," says Daskalakis. "This is dangerous."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-5950002/as-diseases-loom-cdcs-response-to-measles-deaths-stirs-fears-about-agencys-reliability

 

‘Literally off his rocker’: Why Trump is fixated on Indiana - POLITICO

"Trump is reinforcing a narrative where the only acceptable outcome is his victory, thus preemptively delegitimizing any electoral defeat," said Joshua Claybourn, a Republican attorney from Evansville and former GOP delegate from the state. "It sets the stage for yet another crisis of legitimacy in the November general election."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/06/trump-indiana-conspiracy-00139973

Trump the Arsonist Turns on His Own Party - The Atlantic

Donald Trump threatens to use his core skills—peddling conspiracy theories, spreading lies, sowing distrust—against the GOP…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/trump-arsonist-turns-his-own-party/672956/

The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society

THE arrival of the “post-truth” political climate came as a shock to many Americans. But to the Christian writer Rachel Held Evans, charges of “fake news” are nothing new. “The deep distrust of the media, of scientific consensus — those were prevalent narratives growing up,” she told me. 

Although Ms. Evans, 35, no longer calls herself an evangelical, she attended Bryan College, an evangelical school in Dayton, Tenn. She was taught to distrust information coming from the scientific or media elite because these sources did not hold a “biblical worldview.”...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/opinion/sunday/the-evangelical-roots-of-our-post-truth-society.html?_r=0