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Inside Alec Baldwin’s Crusade to Take Down a Nobel Prize-Winning Lab

LONG BEFORE ‘RUST’

Twenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy.

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Robert P. Crease
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