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Over the past five years or so, one aspect of talking to the public about politics has become more and more pronounced. In the wake of some story or other, I will be dispatched to determine people’s views about it. For a while, the conversations will largely be pretty straightforward, touching on …
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Joe Rogan blasted a COVID vaccine advocate over accusing him of spreading health misinformation and calling him a “neofascist.” Rogan challenged the vaccine researcher to debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and backed it up with a huge payday for charity. Peter Hotez is a self-described …
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When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his primary challenge to Joe Biden in April, the media shrugged him off as a meme candidate who would soon collide with political reality. Two months later, Kennedy is polling as high as 20% and his campaign is gaining momentum. And the media — unwilling to let …
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Excerpted from Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker. Copyright © 2023. Available from PublicAffairs an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. In her mammoth 2010 work, The Shock Doctrine, Canadian journalist Naomi …
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Conspiracies about the “great replacement theory”, “15-minute cities” and central bank digital currencies are gaining traction as a fringe newspaper attempts to capitalise on the post-pandemic opportunity.About one person in 20 is estimated to have read a copy of The Light, which was launched …
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There are two big news stories currently getting a lot of traction not just on social media but in well-respected mainstream newspapers and even in world governments. At first blush it seems like they have nothing in common: story number one is a report from The Times (in the UK) claiming “fresh …
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The finer details of what happened to the RMS Titanic differ depending on who is telling the story.The iceberg that collided with the luxury liner was spotted at 11:40 p.m., according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, or 11:35 p.m., which is what an exhibition about the ship in New York …
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Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros is handing control of his US$25 billion holdings, including his Open Society Foundations, to one of his sons, Alexander Soros. As a sociologist who researches immigrants and minorities in Europe and conspiracy theories about them, I study how …
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Study claims Christianity associated with belief in ‘conspiracy theories’ – American Thinker June 16, 2023 A new study, published in something called the Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion, claims that both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism are independently associated with a …
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In 2016, the Oxford English Dictionary made ‘post-truth’ its word of the year, signaling a turn in Western politics towards not just competing narratives based on a shared understanding of the facts, but of competing facts themselves. The ‘paranoid style in American politics’ that Richard …
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