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Claim: A cell phone virus is circulating disguised as a video called the ‘Dance of the Pope.’ In early April 2015, several rumors warning mobile phone users of a malware attachment known as the Dance of the Pope (later Dance of the Hillary) began to circulate. Many versions claimed the Dance of the …
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Insidious threats foisted on an unwitting public by shadowy, technocratic operatives: It makes perfect sense that communism and fluoridation are linked in the national imagination. “It is a planned experiment in mass medication which is part of the technique of communist philosophy to implant …
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Did NASA fake the moon landing? Is the government hiding Martians in Area 51? Is global warming a hoax? And what about the Boston Marathon bombing…an “inside job” perhaps? In the book “The Empire of Conspiracy,” Timothy Melley explains that conspiracy theories have traditionally been regarded by …
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Annals of Technology What a Conspiracy Theorist Believes On a four-point scale, from one (strongly disagree) to four (strongly agree), please rate the following statements: “The Apollo moon landings never happened and were staged in a Hollywood film studio”; ”Princess Diana’s death was not an …
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Conspiracy theories are as American as apple pie. A national poll released this week by Public Policy Polling (PPP) found that some popular conspiracy theories in the United States have persisted for years, like the belief that a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Meanwhile, new theories …
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Updated at 12:26 p.m. ET A new national poll reveals that Americans differ along political party lines even in their endorsement of conspiracy theories, including the belief that President Obama is the Anti-Christ and the idea that global warming is a hoax. The poll found, for instance, just 15 …
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Steve Marcus Smart meters hang on a rack at the NV Energy meter shop Tuesday, March 6, 2012. NV Energy plans to install 1.3 million smart meters as part of an electrical grid modernization. By Anjeanette Damon Thursday, March 8, 2012 | 2 a.m. Smart Meters Launch slideshow » Related story Related …
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The Hollywood sign was not on fire. Firefighters weren’t using women’s purses to put out fires. A fish is not responsible for the blazes. The Los Angeles fire department didn’t see big budget cuts. The fires were not started deliberately as some kind of mass plot related to high-speed rail or the …
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We have probably all encountered numerous examples of conspiracy thinking in recent years, including claims that the 2024 Baltimore bridge collapse was caused by former President Obama, that Taylor Swift controlled the outcome of the Super Bowl to help President Biden get reelected and that the …
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Apologies to anyone whose bubble will burst, but “Apollo 18,” the film opening Friday (Sept. 2), is fictional. The film, purporting to be produced from footage kept secret by NASA and leaked to the media, chronicles a NASA mission to the moon that went awry when astronauts encountered signs of …
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