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Photograph by A. T. Willett / Alamy Since 1969, when an estimated six hundred million people around the world watched two astronauts walk on the surface of the moon, a significant number of people have doubted that the event ever took place. A major line of conspiracy theory insists that the …
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Illustration by Golden Cosmos Some people have always believed that the moon landing was a government hoax, and, in the age of the Internet, that conspiracy theory continues to thrive. Andrew Marantz explores the value of skepticism, and the point at which disbelief leads to a totalitarian …
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I recently watched “Behind the Curve”—a new Netflix documentary about the community of people who believe that the Earth is flat rather than spherical—with the expectation that I’d sit back and have a laugh at the expense of the flat-Earthers. But I was wrong. I was totally swayed. Here are the …
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On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-powered rocket. He’d been trying for years, in one way or another. In 2002, Hughes set a Guinness World …
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This essay is part of a series The New Yorker will be running through the election titled “Trump and the Truth.” It is no surprise that, by feverishly indulging conspiracy theories of many kinds, Donald Trump would end up reintroducing America to the master conspiracy theory of them all, the first …
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On December 2nd, while the awful news from San Bernardino was erupting, bit by unconfirmed bit, I was surprised by the crisp self-assurance of a couple of bloggers whose names were new to me. They were on it—number of victims, names of shooters, police-radio intercepts. Soon, though, the bloggers …
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“You’re using this conspiracy theory as an excuse to avoid sex with me.” There’s plenty to choose from, but this is one of the better lines from “Annie Hall,” delivered to Woody Allen’s Alvy Singer character at the breaking point of a failed relationship: The scene is a flashback to a time when …
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The Political SceneFrat House for JesusSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyClockwise from bottom left: Tom Coburn, Zach Wamp, Heath Shuler, Bart Stupak, Mike Doyle, and John Ensign.Illustration by Andy FriedmanOne midwinter night in 2008, Senator John Ensign, of Nevada, the …
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