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When TIME’s reporters visited Salk, the scientist was battling pushback from all manner of people and groups—from an anti-vaccine community similar to the one that has persisted into the 21st century; from local politicians concerned about approving the field trial in their communities, lest the experiment go sideways, the shots cause polio rather than prevent it, and the public officials take the blame; from radio personality Walter Winchell—the shock jock of his age—who spread the dark lie that warehouses around the country were stockpiling little white coffins to hold the bodies of the hundreds of thousands of children who would surely be claimed by Salk’s infernal potion. (my bold)
https://time.com/6263567/jonas-salk-polio-cover-history/
What does the phrase "dark lie" mean?
https://time.com/6263567/jonas-salk-polio-cover-history/
What does the phrase "dark lie" mean?