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The rise to prominence of conspiracy movements has generated much angst among mainstream commentators. In the lead-up to the US presidential election, QAnon, which believes that Donald Trump is leading a secret battle against a cabal of child-abusing, blood-drinking liberal elites, became a …
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Terrorist and organized crime groups are spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic in order to erode people’s trust in government or spread their ideology and gain more supporters, the UN warned in a report published this month. The goal is to erode trust in …
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Conspiracy theories have been around since long before the internet provided an omnipresent forum for them. Who killed JFK? Aliens in Roswell! Paul is dead! Elvis Lives! The list is long and generally pretty tawdry. Whether spread on social media, via tabloid publications or through old-school …
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I generally don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I actually find most of them silly and baseless. The John F. Kennedy assassination in 1964 was likely the place where these alternate conspiracy theories were born. Along came the moon landing and the conspiracy theories questioning the authenticity …
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Conspiracy theories can divide a nation and imperil lives. The past year in America has taught many of us just that. It has also taught us that conspiratorial thinking can tear families apart. When family members can’t even agree upon basic facts — like, yeah, the Earth is round — how can they …
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The writer is a science commentator Unspeakable dangers lurk everywhere. A new class of Covid-19 vaccines will turn humans into monkeys. The landscape is studded with 5G masts that transmit coronavirus. Except that monkey-generating vaccines and virus-spreading telecommunications infrastructure do …
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Those of us old enough to have been around for the heyday of the Beatles remember how richly the rumor had been embraced that Paul McCartney was dead and how widely it had been believed or at least entertained. We needed scant more evidence than the image of Paul walking barefoot across Abbey Road. …
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By Morf Morford Tacoma Daily Index As I may have mentioned on these pages, I’m a former college-level English and writing instructor. I’ve also been a newspaper columnist, an English-as-a-second language teacher and blog writer. In other words, I’ve always worked with words.
The coronavirus pandemic rages on. Unfortunately, so do the conspiracy theories. Some people say it was a planned release by a Chinese research lab in Wuhan; some say Bill Gates is using the virus to vaccinate everyone in the world; and others say the virus spread as result of the new 5G wireless …
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GILLETTE —To live in Wyoming is to face a fundamental existential question: Does the state exist and if not, what does that mean for those who live here? Much like Shakespeare’s famous rhetorical “to be, or not to be,” residents of an assumed state may exist on an unconscious level. But does that …
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