- Alt-right media personalities with books and protein powders to sell latch on to said flawed in-vitro study and push it hard to their followers.
It doesn’t get said often enough that these bonkers ideas (like taking horse dewormer) don’t come from nowhere. They are handed to these people by the authorities they listen to, who feed them said information for the purposes of tribal control, undermining science (necessary for them to get support for irrational policies) and selling woo.