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One question for Lee McIntyre, research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. McIntyre is the author of The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience, and How to Talk to a
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Paralegal and writer Katherine Watt slammed both the legislative and executive branches of government for orchestrating a massive domestic bioterrorism under the guise of a public health program. According to her, the two branches secretly legalized and funded the overthrow of the Constitution, the
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When you think of pandas, you typically think about one of two things: One, the adorable, monochromatic animal that was the subject of a 2003 DreamWorks Animation film, or two, that song by Desiigner. The latest conspiracy theory currently making
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No Connection Do COVID-19 vaccines reduce breast milk supplies, which has caused the baby formula shortage, and is billionaire Bill Gates behind the whole scheme? No, that’s not true: A September 2021 study found that a small proportion of women
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PodcastPodcast, The Take Al Jazeera investigates how deepening divisions in society created conspiracy theories and ‘alternative facts’. Today, we’re featuring the Al Jazeera Investigates podcast’s episode, The Truth Illusion. It explores one of the most profound questions that philosophers through
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Ball, P. & Maxmen, A. The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories. Nature 581, 371–374. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01452-z (2020). ADS CAS Article PubMed Google Scholar Gross, M. Recovering a sense of reality. Curr. Biol. 31, R1–R3 (2021). CAS Article Google
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Introduction On the afternoon of March 9th, 2022, the current White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, used the United States government official Twitter account, @PressSec, to make the following claims (among several others): “We took note of Russia’s false claims about
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Placeholder while article actions load Super Happy Fun America, the Woodland Wild Dogs and America First Bruins are not household names in the way the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and QAnon are. But they, too, are groups whose members
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Quick Take At least 2,000 cattle have died following a heat wave in southwestern Kansas. Although the cattle apparently died of heatstroke, social media posts have made baseless claims suggesting that the deaths might be part of a larger conspiracy
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Hodgepodge Is Bill Gates the “first man to bring computers into this world,” and is he worth “trillions and trillions”? No, that’s not true: A social media video post purporting to be sharing “the truth about Bill Gates” makes those
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