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Election 2020 The embattled MP from Botany has joined up his party with the conspiracy theory-driven New Zealand Public Party, allowing the latter a plausible path to Parliament, Marc Daalder reports Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross has joined his nascent political party to a would-be party led by a man …
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Editor, Thank you for your illuminating words in the July 22 issue about conspiracy theories. It is important we understand how to leave them behind us so we can pick up fact-based understandings and make helpful decisions about important problems. Effective public health decisions and finding …
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With prospects of a COVID-19 vaccine looking up, attention is also turning to the problem of anti-vax ideas. According to a recent survey, one in six Britons would refuse a COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available. Although vaccine hesitancy is a complex problem with multiple causes, the number …
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‘Unsupported’: a powerful rating to flag COVID-19 conspiracy theories – Poynter ‘Unsupported’: a powerful rating to flag COVID-19 conspiracy theories – Poynter Home Fact-Checking ‘Unsupported’: a powerful rating to flag COVID-19 conspiracy theories
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Everyone likes a good story. These conspiracy theories have a proven time record, continuing to disturb and tickle the mind. Enjoy! Public poisoning by order of the government? This is the ‘Chemtrail’ conspiracy theory. Believers of the theory think that the residual condensation trails left behind …
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The internet has made it easier than ever before to encounter and spread conspiracy theories. And while some are harmless, others can be deeply damaging, sowing discord and even leading to unnecessary deaths. Now, researchers believe they’ve uncovered a new tool for combating false conspiracy …
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I’ve long been fascinated by the intersection of conspiracy theories and religion.Indeed, most research on conspiracy shows theorists tend to believe in a higher power, making it more likely they believe we didn’t land on the moon; the earth is flat; COVID-19 was a “plandemic;” contrails in the sky …
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By ANNEMARIE SCHUETZ You know conspiracy theories; the internet happens to be a ripe breeding ground for them. “These evil all-powerful people or opposing political party or company or piece of technology did a thing to some people and that bad thing happened.” Dr. Kenneth Luck’s research might not …
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A spike in coronavirus cases across Melbourne has seen local hotspot suburbs largely locked down and some 3000 people in public housing towers prevented from leaving home at all. But the sharp reminder that “This is not over” which now flashes on freeway signs across Australia’s second largest city …
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They were just children when Adolf Hitler’s rule came to an end, but they will never forget the horrors the Nazis inflicted on their families.A group of Austrian grandmothers is determined not to let younger generations forget about the dangers of far-right ideologies. As right-wing populism …
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