“The American mainstream news media have so far steered well clear of the subject because the phenomenon has been enthusiastically embraced by the talk radio fringe, leading to a death spiral of diminishing credibility.”

Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 14, “Infected” (p. 266)

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