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For months now, the popular comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan has been telling his vast audience of a study that shows Earth is cooling – even though this research states the complete opposite.Rogan’s false claim about the climate crisis, which he has repeatedly aired on the Joe Rogan Experience, …
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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett insisted on MSNBC Wednesday that she isn’t a conspiracy theorist — but her own words tell a different story.In an appearance on “Deadline: White House,” Crockett denied being a conspiracy theorist. Crockett said Jeffrey Epstein set up a sham company to abuse …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! President Donald Trump’s political success was derived in part by being omnipresent on every screen. So his recent absence from public view provoked all sorts of speculation – fed by social media algorithms that promoted conspiracy theories and complete …
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Extreme politics and extreme weather go hand in hand, and both have to be confronted if we are to understand and overcome the polycrisis we are living through.Yet few media organisations are examining why the climate emergency is creating a new era of demagogues. Even fewer are scrutinising how …
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Even in Australia, Porepunkah is a town few would have heard of before this week. Fewer still could pronounce it.Nestled at the base of densely wooded mountains in the Australian Alps, it is home to about 1,000 people and beloved for its wineries, bushwalking and peaceful atmosphere – something …
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Psychologists have long considered how a tendency towards irrational thinking or particular personality traits might predict peoples’ interest in conspiracies. Yet these individual factors do not explain the group processes through which conspiracy theorists are extending their influence and …
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Queen’s University Belfast academic Dr Tristan Sturm explains why our troubled past could be behind the 5G mast attacks in the city: ‘It’s about a concern that the state is surveilling a particular community through these radiation towers’ Gillian HallidayYesterday at 20:00There’s an old joke that …
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Psychologists have long considered how a tendency towards irrational thinking or particular personality traits might predict peoples’ interest in conspiracies. Yet these individual factors do not explain the group processes through which conspiracy theorists are extending their influence and …
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Even thinking about conspiracy theories can feel, well, conspiratorial. One would be a fool to deny that bad actors sometimes work behind the scenes to do terrible things, and cover their tracks with denials, misinformation and lies. But then there’s the rabbit hole of obsession, paranoia and the …
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Leo Kim is an essayist and critic. He has written for Wired, The Baffler, Logic(s) and other publications. Something’s in the air these days. Or so Steven tells me. He was recently back east from California — which was still smoldering from the wildfires — and we were talking about the dry weather. …
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