National Guard could not force COVID vaccinations, Utah lawmaker says

January 25, 2022 covid19

Archived 5 years ago from Deseret News
National Guard could not force COVID vaccinations, Utah lawmaker says

“Will your bill allow citizens to be arrested for speaking out against critical race theory?” Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, directed the question to Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville. It was one of many he received from constituents about HB16, which Dunnigan is sponsoring. Dunnigan sighed. “Um, …

Conspiracy

January 25, 2022 5g, moon landing

Archived 5 years ago from Science Business
Conspiracy thinking: 25% of Europeans say the moon landing never happened

Here’s a quick test: Did man land on the moon in 1969? Or was it a TV studio hoax? Spoiler alert: Of course, the landing really happened. But don’t try telling that to the 25% of Europeans surveyed by the TRESCA EU research project on misinformation. When asked about the landing last year, a fourth …

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January 25, 2022 bill gates

Archived 4 years ago from IPS Journal
During the pandemic, conspiracy theories have run rampant. Europe needs to counter it with a public service internet – Work and digitalisation

Covid-19 is at once a health crisis, an economic crisis, a political crisis, a cultural crisis, a moral crisis, and a global crisis – with no end to the crises in sight. Since the 1980s, the hegemony of neoliberalism has generated a social crisis characterised by strong inequalities, in particular …

Royal Society report says there’s no silver bullet to fix ‘scientific misinformation’

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January 24, 2022 5g, covid19

Archived 5 years ago from Chemistry World
Royal Society report says there’s no silver bullet to fix ‘scientific misinformation’

There’s no quick and easy way to fix the problem of ’scientific misinformation’, argues a new report released by the Royal Society. As communication technologies have changed, so has the scale and speed with which misinformation spreads, says the report. ‘So the responses to it have to similarly …

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January 24, 2022 george soros, marjorie taylor greene, nazi

Archived 4 years ago from Brandeis University
How Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Contributed to the Recent Hostage-Taking at the Texas Synagogue

How Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Contributed to the Recent Hostage-Taking at the Texas Synagogue This article is republished from The Conversation. Jan. 24, 2022 By Jonathan D. Sarna ’75, MA’75 The man who took a rabbi and three congregants hostage in Colleyville, Texas, on Jan. 15, 2022, …

How anti-Semitic conspiracies drive violent attacks and harm democracy

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January 23, 2022 israel

Archived 5 years ago from Texas Public Radio
How anti-Semitic conspiracies drive violent attacks and harm democracy

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last Saturday, when an armed man took four people hostage at the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, many people hearing the news might have wondered why there? Why that city? Why those people? We later learned that the man, a British national, was …

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January 21, 2022 deep state, pizzagate

Archived 5 years ago from Penn Today
A novel theory on how conspiracy theories take shape

How do people come to believe in conspiracy theories? It’s a question Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Dolores Albarracín has been thinking about for decades. “I grew up in Argentina in the ’70s, during the Dirty War that eventually led to the disappearance of 30,000 Argentines. The …

Fact check: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. died due to gunshot wound

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January 20, 2022 9/11

Archived 5 years ago from USA TODAY
Fact check: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. died due to gunshot wound

The claim: Martin Luther King Jr. was ‘killed by his doctor,’ not a gunman More than half a century after his death, conspiracy theories about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination continue to circulate online. “Martin Luther King was Killed by his DOCTOR NOT the BULLET,” reads text in a …

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January 20, 2022 jfk assassination, moon landing

Archived 5 years ago from WOSU Public Media
What Makes Conspiracy Theories Stick And Why Some People Are Willing To Believe Them

From the moon landing to JFK’s assassination to the death of Elvis, conspiracy theories have always been with us in some form or another. However, in recent years social media and political polarization have helped them to spread faster than the coronavirus. We’ll take a look at where conspiracy …

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January 19, 2022 george soros, israel

Archived 5 years ago from The Atlantic
We Are All Hostages to Anti-Semitism

Most people do not realize that Jews make up just 2 percent of the U.S. population and 0.2 percent of the world’s population. This means simply finding them takes a lot of effort. But every year in Western countries, including America, Jews are the No. 1 target of anti-religious hate crimes. …

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