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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 …
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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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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, …
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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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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 …
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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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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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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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Newswise — Conspiracy theories have circulated at all times, in all cultures, and among all populations. They routinely appear in conjunction with major incidents, such as those that today take the form of terrorist attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and presidential elections. As two recent surveys …
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Epps has kept a low profile since former President Donald Trump’s allies began promoting a theory that Epps was a federal agent and helped foment the attack. Their claims stem from videos taken on Jan. 5 showing Epps urging Trump allies to “go into the Capitol” — an exhortation that some in the …
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