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Celebrities championing pharmaceuticals are in vogue, with dangerous ramifications on the public's health.

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Feb 01, 2023
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Cover image taken from Newsweek, with credit provided to: VALERIE MACON / CRISTINA ARIAS/GETTY IMAGES

A few days ago Shazam! actor Zachary Levi posted a tweet in response to an otherwise banal question:

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Zachary Levi @ZacharyLevi
Hardcore agree. 😐
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Lyndon Wood ✌️👽🙏 @Lyndonx
Do you agree or not, that Pfizer is a real danger to the world?
7:32 AM ∙ Jan 29, 2023
22,315Likes2,473Retweets

Like I said; banal. In any other timeline such a response would have been seen as when referencing malfeasance on the part of Big Pharma. It’s been one of the typical rallying cries of the left, and quite frankly a majority of political parties to criticize drug manufacturers for their price gouging and coercive tactics.

But this doesn’t appear to be the case here. Zachary Levi made no allusions as to why he thought that Pfizer was a danger to the world, and yet that didn’t stop social medial from jumping onto the “anti-vaxxer” bandwagon.

It’s not that hard to find an article with a title alluding to Levi tanking his career…for a tweet against Big Pharma…

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