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As most Angelenos will know, the further you move inland, the more the sun feels like someone’s shoved a magnifying glass in front of it.

Those fears were magnified when a widely shared video showed several residents apprehended at a bus stop in Pasadena.

What he didn’t say was that the skepticism was promoted by Kennedy and other anti-vaxxers denigrating the technology; a competent and responsible NIH chief would be defending a technological innovation, not magnifying disinformation about it.

This development highlights how often celebrities influence political debates, often provoking polarized reactions and magnifying contentious issues like immigration.

“This is very different from other philanthropy. We have a different magnifying glass looking at us,” Reale said.