“Vaccine whistleblower” death fuels conspiracy theories months later

The 2020 death of a former pharmaceutical worker and prominent anti-vaccine activist at age 44 is being discussed online with speculation about her cause of death. The activist, who founded an anti-vaccine website, wrote a year before her death that, if anything happened to her, “it’s foul play.” Shortly after her death, conspiracists began claiming that she was “murdered by Big Pharma.”

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