The A1 Verse: Ron Johnson’s ministry of truth
By Thomas Gaulkin | March 22, 2021
Caricature of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). Illustration by DonkeyHotey (CC-BY-SA).
Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred March 22, 2021.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
Untruths Flow From Senator, Shaking Trust
(from the original by Trip Gabriel and Reid J. Epstein)
Senator Outrage,
the foremost amplifier,
an all-access purveyor
of misinformation
and the etymology of
doubt.
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Keywords: Ron Johnson, The A1 Verse, conspiracy theories, misinformation, poetry, science denial
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Thomas Gaulkin is multimedia editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Prior to joining the Bulletin in 2018, he spent the... Read More
