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The University of Queensland has defended its academics who have pushed conspiracy theories and misinformation around fire ant treatments and vaccines.It comes as Australia’s fire ant authorities slam comments by UQ researcher Conny Turni as “ignorant” and “misinformation”.Dr Turni said she …
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On the edge of George Street in Sydney, a woman is wrapped in an upside-down Australian flag. She holds one side of a large banner that reads “GROOM DOGS NOT KIDS”, showing pictures of poodles with ears dyed rainbow and pink.There are young people, people in their 60s and 70s, parents with children …
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Concerns about the consequences of conspiracy theories have grown. Widespread belief in unfounded conspiracy theories is only one associated risk. Conversely, academics mustn’t commit the reverse error, in adopting a Protective Conspiracy Framing and labelling credible theories and proposals …
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Conspiracy theories are funny things.The most enduring ones usually take hold for two reasons: first, because there’s some grain of truth to them, and second, because they speak to foundational historical divisions. The theories morph and change, distorting the grain of truth at their centre beyond …
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When the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, took the rare step this week of filing a US defamation lawsuit against the rightwing podcaster Candace Owens, it marked a new phase in a legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic against the false claim that Brigitte Macron is a …
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25 July 2025ShareSaveMike WendlingShareSaveIt seems like a simple decision for Donald Trump’s administration – release files related to the late convicted paedophile financier Jeffery Epstein, or keep them out of public view.But battles raging among the US president’s supporters in some of the more …
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Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, will formally require vaccine makers to remove thimerosal from vaccines.The ingredient has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns and misinformation for decades. Arguments against the preservative culminated in June, when a key federal vaccine …
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Conspiracy-spewing podcaster Candace Owens was slapped with a defamation lawsuit Wednesday by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, for claiming that the first lady was born a male who groomed her allegedly gay husband.The Paris power couple accused Owens of pushing a …
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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In Thursday’s edition of this newsletter, Emily Bell wrote about the increasingly curious right-wing-media dynamics surrounding the biggest political story of the moment: the Trump administration’s frantic, yet seemingly doomed, attempts to move …
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