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V-Word: The Multi-Billion Dollar Sacred Cow

V-Word: The Multi-Billion Dollar Sacred Cow

...and some linguistic sleight of hand.

Tessa Lena
Jul 20, 2021
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This story is about words and profits.

It is about an important English word that, I believe, is being currently hijacked in a semi-coordinated fashion to serve extremely ambitious economic goals. So I am going to commit an act of blasphemy against political correctness (and enjoy it).

The word is “vaccine” (hereinafter “v-wo…

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