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Fischer elaborated, “Whatever reaction shot you’re seeing, he’s just reacting to us saying funny words like ‘neon sign’ or ‘chicken’ or something like ‘quack a duck.’

It’s in service of crank conspiracy theories, quack wellness influencers and weird dystopian visions of supermen doing pull-ups to demonstrate their patriotism.

And that is how a quack who treats the tender corns on pedicured toes suddenly becomes a world-renowned corn doctor in a show that seemingly never met a pun it didn’t like.

“The secretary of defense, in charge of defending the American people, was accidentally texting military strike information to journalists. The secretary of public health…is a quack.”

The individual histories of these men as a dangerous conspiracy theorist, a quack cure TV huckster, an eccentric contrarian and an ethically-challenged partisan have sent shockwaves through the scientific community.