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The U.S. is locked in what could very well be considered a civil war of information. Every political faction seems to be locked in an echo chamber, and confidence in once-trusted institutions has been all but eroded. What worries me more than conspiracy theories and misinformation is the knee-jerk …
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I. The opening battle In business schools, there’s a little parable that gets spun about the indomitable genius of American scientists and … car tires. Right after America surrendered the Philippines in 1942, the victorious Japanese halted exports of natural rubber to the United States. No rubber …
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Southwest Airlines had an absolute fiasco of a weekend, cancelling thousands of flights. Conservatives ran with evidence-free rumors about anti-vaccine mandate employee walkouts. For culture warriors, some conspiracy theory narratives are just too good to fact-check. This is an opinion column. …
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Truth be told, we are a nation of spectacular liars. We lie to ourselves about our origin, our exceptionality, that our wealth and power stems from that exceptionality rather than from economic systems of exploitation. Lies are embedded in our founding and our growth and probably our eventual doom. …
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Photo: Jeopardy!/YouTube To all the weisenheimers and Professor Professorsons out there: No, Matt Amodio didn’t lose his final Jeopardy! game on purpose because … just say it out loud. That’s absurd. Do you know how much money he was raking in? He got to $1,518,601! In a new op-ed in Newsweek, the …
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Truth be told, we are a nation of spectacular liars. We lie to ourselves about our origin, our exceptionality, that our wealth and power stems from that exceptionality rather than from economic systems of exploitation. Lies are embedded in our founding and our growth and probably our eventual doom. …
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What do you do if your friend or family member starts to believe in conspiracy theories? Dr Mathew Marques from La Trobe University’s School of Psychology and Public Health said the best approach is to listen, avoid ridicule, and show empathy and understanding. “It’s like any discussion that …
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A Colorado judge on Wednesday prohibited a local official who has embraced conspiracy theories from overseeing November’s election, finding she breached and neglected her duties and was “untruthful” when she brought in someone who was not a county employee to copy the hard drives of Dominion Voting …
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WASHINGTON — Right-wing extremist groups in the United States have been influencing French groups, spreading antigovernment conspiracy theories in Europe, the top French intelligence official said on Wednesday. The official, Laurent Nuñez, France’s national intelligence and counterterrorism …
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Most field research doesn’t require “two days in an asylum.” That’s how Lee McIntyre describes the 2018 Flat Earth International Conference in Denver that opens his new book, How to Talk to a Science Denier (MIT Press, 2021). McIntyre, a visiting researcher at Boston University’s Center for …
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