What do you do if your colleague tells you that she is fearful of the Covid-19 vaccine because she was told that it would make her infertile and that it contained microchips for secretly tracking people?

This may sound absurd but a pharmacist in Wisconsin, who was recently arrested for destroying 600 doses of Covid-19 vaccines by leaving them out of the refrigerator to spoil, had been promoting these false beliefs via text messages before his arrest.

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Carol Soon is head of the society and culture department at the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) and vice-chair of the Media Literacy Council. Shawn Goh is an IPS research assistant.

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