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I hope it gonna make your day too, I'm sharing it here.

Happy reading…

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Pre-Written Narratives and Premature Outrage: ProPublica's Plan to Review Our Upcoming Book, “The War on Chlorine Dioxide"

Jenna McCarthy

Dec 04, 2025

Well, friends, we’re still more than a month out from The War on Chlorine Dioxide’s official debut, and already the media sharks are circling.

Dr. Kory and I have reporters emailing, texting, calling our cells, reaching out to colleagues, tracking down my husband’s mobile number (?!), leaving voicemails, and generally behaving like they heard we’re going to drop photographic proof that Elvis is alive in Chapter Seven.

I’ve actually started checking my bushes for journalists when I leave the house. (That was a joke. This is Texas. Don’t even think about it.)

Since one particularly persistent reporter (Megan O’Matz of ProPublica) has now contacted us sixteen times—about a book she hasn’t read for a story she’s essentially confessed she’s already written—I figured I’d just respond here so there’s zero chance she can spin my words to suit her purposes.

Below, you’ll find excerpts from some of the increasingly aggressive emails Ms. O’Matz has sent to Pierre and me—each followed by my response. If she wants to badger us privately, fine. We are choosing to respond openly, where context can’t be edited out.

Dear Megan,

Thank you for your eighth email—plus the texts, the voicemails to both my phone and my husband’s, and the outreach to my co-author—offering us the opportunity to “clarify anything” in the article you’ve already written.

At this point, you’ve been more persistent than my dentist, the neighborhood solar-panel salesman, and my distant Cuban cousin who sells Bibles for a living. (True story.) For a book you haven’t even read and clearly know very little about, your enthusiasm is… impressive.

We have no interest in being willing participants in your hit job, but since you’re moving forward with your preordained story either way, here are a few things you might at least pretend to consider before hitting ‘publish.’

To continue reading:

https://open.substack.com/pub/jennamccarthy/p/pre-written-narratives-and-premature?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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