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A cabal of doctors is hiding the cure for cancer, berries are more effective than vaccines, and eating instant noodles can kill you: These are some of the claims from the internet’s most viral fake health news in 2019. Health misinformation was a big deal this year. Facing pressure from lawmakers, …
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At Mysterious Universe, Paul Seaburn writes: In what can be considered an unusual convergence of conspiracy theories, a man who runs a Bigfoot videos YouTube channel was chasing chemtrails when he claimed to have recorded a UFO chasing them as well. If you’re playing Conspiracy Scrabble, …
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Recommended PSA for all the Area 51 stormers, chemtrail believers and climate change deniers: Edward Snowden has searched the depths of the US intelligence networks and can report the conspiracy theories are not true. As a former employee of the CIA and contractor for the National Security Agency, …
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Crazy woman wearing a metal colander for a helmetGetty Images/iStockphoto | iStockphoto Convinced that there were ulterior forces behind getting snubbed for best columnist in The Aspen Times’ Best Of contest, we set out to explore what other conspiracies are lurking underneath Aspen’s botoxed …
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Ignoring crazy ideas might be easy, but it seems to give fuel to those who believe Earlier this year, a flat-Earth conspiracy theorist named Mike Hughes lifted off aboard a self-made, steam-powered rocket. “Mad Mike,” as he has been called by the Associated Press, mistakenly believes that the Earth …
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Advertisment: Claim: Musician Jimi Hendrix faked his death and is now living as actor Morgan Freeman. A bizarre conspiracy theory holding that U.S. musician Jimi Hendrix faked his death in 1970 and is now living as renowned actor Morgan Freeman is frequently shared on social media. For instance, …
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Think of Egypt and you probably think straight away of the pyramids. The best-known of these ancient masonry structures are dotted across the Giza necropolis. These, in turn, are guarded by the similarly iconic statue of the Great Sphinx. The Giza pyramids were all built during Ancient Egypt’s …
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My Turn: The politics of conspiracy Opinion > Columns A man holds a Q sign – for the QAnon conspiracy theory – while he waits in line to enter a campaign rally for President Donald Trump in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Aug. 2, 2018. AP For the Monitor Published: 8/4/2019 7:00:13 AM Even as we celebrate …
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Controversy over “fake news” burst into view again this past weekend, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission .Saturday, July 20th marked 50 years since astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin beat the Soviets’ ill-fated unmanned Luna 15 to the lunar surface. The coming of this date was long …
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As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, meteorologists are staying awake for days at a time trying to get vital, life-saving information out to the folks who will be affected. That’s their job. But this year, several of them tell Rolling Stone, they’re increasingly having to take time out to quell …
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