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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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Media fact-checkers self-immolated their credibility when they conspired with Biden government bureaucrats to suppress questions about the possible lab leak origins of COVID-19, the efficacy of masks and social distancing, and vaccine side effects. As Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) observed, we need new …
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When Donald Trump recently claimed, during what was supposed to be a press conference about an EU trade deal, that wind turbines were a “con job” that “drive whales loco”, kill birds and even people, he wasn’t just repeating old myths. He was tapping into a global pattern of conspiracy theories …
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A social media account tied to President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to take over the Bureau of Labor Statistics has a history of posting various far-right conspiracy theories – the latest eyebrow-raising report to emerge about what is often a nonpartisan nominee.Last week, Trump announced he …
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