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There is no Democratic or Republican way to land on the moon. I was 10 years old on the Sunday afternoon of July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 made its more-hairy-than-we-realized touchdown on the lunar surface and Neil Armstrong famously
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Last May, a Public Religion Research Institute survey found that nearly one in five members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes in QAnon — placing them just about in the middle of the Christian denominations polled.
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On July 17, 1996, a Boeing 747 exploded in midair off the coast of Long Island. The flight from New York City to Rome with a stop in Paris broke apart and fell into the ocean below. The 230 people onboard Trans World
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A 90-minute anti-child sex trafficking documentary by a Polish filmmaker promoting various tropes related to the conspiracy theory QAnon has gone viral on TikTok and YouTube, despite both platforms’ purported efforts to halt the spread of viral misinformation. A highly
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Conspiracy theories: they run as far back as the Salem witch trials and we bump into them quite often now a days on social media. But sometimes separating fact from fiction isn’t easy, and perhaps even more difficult is helping
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is falsely describing the circumstances of Ashli Babbitt’s death as he foments conspiracy theories about the siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6 and all the “love in the air” that day. In
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In 2014, two researchers from the University of Chicago published a paper entitled, “Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion” (American Journal of Political Science). Using data from four nationally representative surveys, they found roughly half of adult
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Police lead Piers Corbyn away from a lockdown protest in Hyde Park. Reading about Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy, at the weekend reminded me that in any contest between conspiracy theorists and cock-up theorists, my money is always on the
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This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Chris Hallett: Okay, what’s going on, everybody. Sure you remember this from the Friday night show. Kate Linebaugh: This
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You’re probably familiar with this version of events. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant obtained against former Trump campaign official Carter Page in October 2016 plays a central role in the overlapping ideas that the campaign was under close scrutiny
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