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By Dina Temple-Raston, In Deep The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State” By David Rohde Norton. 323 pp. $30 Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been a subject of “deep state” conspiracy theories that falsely claim he’s working …
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The Pentagon this week released footage from the Navy of three sightings of “unidentified aerial phenomena” that had already been circulating for years among alien enthusiasts and a few skeptical civilians. The military had already confirmed the existence of the clips, but refused to share the …
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Placeholder while article actions load This is the latest installment of a weekly feature on this blog — lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project, which aims to teach students how to distinguish between what’s real and fake in the age of digital communication and a president who routinely …
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By Steven Gimbel, They Are Already Here UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers By Sarah Scoles Pegasus. 248 pp. $27.95 Intimate Alien The Hidden Story of the UFO By David J. Halperin Stanford. 292 pp. $26 The Contact Paradox Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence By …
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That cause turned deadly over the weekend when “Mad” Mike Hughes, “self-styled daredevil, flat-Earth theorist and limousine-jumping stuntman” died in a rocket accident while trying to prove the flat-Earth hypothesis correct. But even the weather shows the Earth isn’t flat. Here’s how. Story …
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Because of the way gravity works, which we all encounter in our daily lives, every molecule of air would be drawn to the Earth’s center of mass. Because the Earth is a globe, this means the atmosphere settles around the Earth, pulled toward Earth’s center, but is stopped by the Earth’s surface. The …
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Hughes, a self-styled daredevil, flat-Earth theorist and limousine-jumping stuntman, died Saturday when his crudely built contraption propelled him on a column of steam, spiraled through the air and cratered into the sagebrush outside Barstow, Calif. He was 64. “Everyone was just stunned and didn’t …
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By Michael Gerson, Volunteers in the New Zealand city of Rotorua are in the process of sending two dozen handcrafted, infant-size coffins to the Pacific island of Samoa, which is currently in the midst of a deadly measles outbreak. The coffins are gifts to Samoan families who can’t afford them but …
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By Robert Costa and Karoun Demirjian, Much of the Republican Party is pressing ahead with debunked claims about Ukraine as they defend President Trump from possible impeachment, embracing Russian-fueled conspiracy theories that seek to cast blame on Kyiv rather than Moscow for interference in the …
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By John Hudson, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that a debunked conspiracy theory pursued by President Trump accusing Ukraine, not Russia, of interfering in the 2016 presidential election by hacking the network of the Democratic National Committee is a worthy subject of investigation. …
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