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One Dumb Conspiracy is a weekly column that debunks the mostly wild conspiracy theories swirling around the web and runs on Mondays in the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter. If you want to get this column a day before we publish
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QAnoners cannot leave the chemical compound adrenochrome alone. For years, harmful conspiracy theories surrounding adrenochrome circulated through the QAnon community claiming the chemical compound is harvested from tortured and murdered children to be used in Satanic rituals as a drug
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https://think-audio.s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/221031_think.mp3 QAnon is just one recent high-profile example in a long history of conspiracy theories people fall victim to. Michael Shermer is founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, host of the Science Salon podcast and a presidential fellow at Chapman University.
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The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home and severely beating her husband with a hammer appears to have made racist and often rambling posts online, including some that questioned the results of the 2020 election,
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Pinellas County School Board candidate Dawn Peters amended her response to questions about a handful of 2020 social media posts linking her to the QAnon group and conspiracy theories. In her most recent post about the topic last week, Peters
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Speaking to a crowd at a Holiday Inn in Clearwater, Florida, QAnon influencer Juan O. Savin described his weekly routine. “On Friday mornings, I have a call with all my candidates from around the country,” Savin told attendees of the
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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo appeared this week on a far-right podcast known for sharing QAnon-related conspiracy theories and misinformation. During a 30-minute interview with the X22 Report, Ladapo talked about his controversial recommendations against giving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to
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The rightwing US TV network Newsmax said it had no plans to interview Lara Logan again, after the award-winning war correspondent turned rightwing pundit launched a QAnon-tinged tirade on air. Speaking to host Eric Bolling, Logan said “the open border
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In a normal election year, candidates for statewide office might cozy up to the fringiest parts of their political party to help win the primary and then distance themselves ahead of the general election. This is not a normal election
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Update (10/24/22): Following the publication of this post, HuffPost senior reporter Christopher Mathias reported that Doug Mastriano “was a no show” for this scheduled event. Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is scheduled to speak Saturday at a QAnon-linked Christian nationalist
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