Igor Sacramento 264 tive. GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE1.” Contrary to what scientific discourse claims, posing displaying a box of hydroxychloroquine in an everyday morning scene in which he was photographed having breakfast, Bolsonaro presents himself as the material- ization of the drug effectiveness in curing the new coronavirus. In this way, reports about the Brazilian president’s illness from the coronavirus and his subsequent cure by hydroxychloroquine were mediatized as evidence of the drug effectiveness. Here, the experiential argument certainly is given by the sickness and Jair Bolsonaro’s present cure due to the use of hydroxychloroquine – as he insisted on posting on his official Facebook page. 3. Final considerations The experimental truth produced by scientific studies that found the ineffectiveness and lack of safety of the use of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 was successively denied by the Bolsonarian discourse through the circula- tion of experiential truth that superimposes the testimonial ethos over methodological mediation as a way of knowledge production in a contemporary culture marked by the notion and prac- tice of post-truth. As we have analyzed throughout this article, the hyper valuation of personal experiences to the detriment of forms of knowledge production historically mediated by sci- entific procedures is part of the radicalization of an epistemo- logical regime that has been articulated in the accelerated form of the circulation of information and opinions as guarantees of freedom of expression. Based on Bolsonaro’s posts on his official Facebook page, we analyze, in this text, the implications of the relation- ship between truth and politics in the context of post-truth and extreme-right hegemony in Brazil. To this end, we activated the notion of an ethos as a form to observe how an image of the enunciator was built, through the testimony, in the discourses. His authority lies in experience, in defense of a belief system, not just on the scientific method. In this way, the various forms in which testimony is now being adopted refer less to a form of 1 Available at https://bit.ly/2FGpReK. Accessed on July 28, 2020.
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