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People used to believe the earth was flat. If you walked to the edge you would fall off. Sounds silly today but in the 15th century to challenge this belief was dangerous. Galileo, who has been called the father of modern physics and the scientific method, used the telescope to observe celestial …
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We’ve all seen crazy conspiracy theories on the internet. And in the last couple of years, baseless conspiracy theories about 5G technology have skyrocketed, despite there being so many other worthwhile topics to be paranoid about. (I mean…have you heard about this Starlink thing? That’s gotta be …
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Conspiracy beliefs thrive when individuals are under threat (van Prooijen, 2020) and societies are in crisis (van Prooijen & Douglas, 2017). Indeed, during the COVID‐19 pandemic, the salience of conspiracy beliefs in public discourse is high—as are endorsement rates (Freeman et al., 2020). Given …
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Recently, I overheard someone talking about why it’s a bad idea to get the coronavirus vaccine. Their reasoning actually surprised me. You see, Bill Gates (everyone’s favorite techno-boogeyman) has these microchips in the vaccine that will collect in your brain and allow him to control you like a …
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Recently, I overheard someone talking about why it’s a bad idea to get the coronavirus vaccine. Their reasoning actually surprised me. You see, Bill Gates (everyone’s favorite techno-boogeyman) has these microchips in the vaccine that will collect in your brain and allow him to control you like a …
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The Anacortes resident responding to the April 24 letter “Dangerous times” must have been reading my mind as I had intended to write a very similar response.It is very disturbing to see otherwise intelligent people going down these rabbit holes lately. Does anyone remember The National Enquierer …
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A political conference hosted at the Delta Hotel in Allen will feature a slate of prominent conservative speakers, many of whom have aligned with a series of baseless conspiracy theories. The May 13-16 event, dubbed the “Faith and Freedoms Conference,” is co-hosted by Matt Couch, a conservative …
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Procedures To test our predictions, we conducted a repeated cross-sectional survey across six-time-points in the United States, covering the period from early February (mild stage of the outbreak: 11 confirmed cases in the U.S.) to late March (severe stage of the outbreak: 68,440 in the U.S.) with …
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Among the many wild conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, few rank as high when it comes to both baselessness and reach as those involving voting machines. The theory that voting machines were programmed to steal the election from President Donald Trump had the benefit, while being utterly …
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Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images “Covid is on its way out,” said Harsh Vardhan, India’s health minister, in early March. But, little more than a month later, a second wave of infections has thrown the country into chaos. Record numbers of more than 300,000 new Covid-19 cases are being …
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