From fluoride to vaccines, resistance to proven health protocols has us sliding backward

April 3, 2019 9/11, alex jones, antivax, cdc, fluoridation

Archived 4 years ago from Des Moines Register
From fluoride to vaccines, resistance to proven health protocols has us sliding backward

Measles were eradicated 19 years ago in the U.S., yet there were 387 cases of them between January and March. That’s primarily because people who never were vaccinated traveled abroad, contracted the disease and brought it back, where it spread among others who were never vaccinated. A major reason …

When fake news and spiritual beliefs erode public health advances

Conspiracy

April 3, 2019 9/11, alex jones, antivax, cdc, fluoridation

Archived 4 years ago from Des Moines Register
When fake news and spiritual beliefs erode public health advances

Flat Earth

March 22, 2019 9/11, alex jones, big tech, nasa

Archived 5 years ago from The Verge
Logan Paul’s satirical flat Earth doc gets to the heart of YouTube’s recommendation issue

Logan Paul’s 50-minute satirical documentary exploring flat earth conspiracy theories demonstrates how someone open to an idea can become indoctrinated into believing something that isn’t real. Paul’s video is entirely facetious, but the underlying parallels between his journey into flat earth …

Flat Earth

March 22, 2019 9/11, alex jones, nasa

Archived 6 years ago from The Verge
Logan Paul’s satirical flat Earth doc highlights YouTube’s recommendation issue

Moon Landing

December 27, 2018 9/11, antivax, flat earth, tuskegee experiment

Archived 4 years ago from The Guardian
Fake moon landings and a flat Earth: why do athletes love conspiracy theories?

With Christmas Day just gone, it seems fitting that Steph Curry already has something he’d probably like to take back. Two weeks ago, the Golden State Warriors star gave the 24-hour news cycle an incredible gift during an appearance on The Ringer’s Winging It podcast. The show, which features the …

Conspiracy

June 7, 2018 9/11, chemtrails, cia, fluoridation, illuminati, nasa, nazi

Archived 3 years ago from OregonLive
13 ‘declassified’ conspiracy theories that live on, from Reptoids and JFK to fluoridation and 9/11

The Apollo 11 command module lands in the Pacific Ocean in 1969. (AP)We are living in a golden age of conspiracy theories. Even the president of the United States embraces them.This surely isn’t a good thing for our democracy or our mental health — and yet it can be hard to resist the urge to …

The science of conspiracies: Where Flat Earth meets Pizzagate

Conspiracy

February 22, 2018 9/11, antivax, flat earth, pizzagate

Archived 4 years ago from Axios
The science of conspiracies: Where Flat Earth meets Pizzagate

Illustration: Rebecca Zisser / Axios “Fake news” was rampant throughout the 2016 election — and it’s still around. But it’s hardly new: people have believed in conspiracy theories for ages, and scientists are no stranger to combating them. The bottom line: From anti-vaccine conspiracies to climate …

Conspiracy

September 13, 2016 9/11, alex jones, trump

Archived 6 years ago from The New Yorker
Trump and the Truth: Conspiracy Theories

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 …

Conspiracy

October 21, 2015 9/11, jfk assassination, moon landing

Archived 6 years ago from The Atlantic
Going Online in the Age of Conspiracy Theories

In the weeks and months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, there was an image that circulated heavily online, mostly via email. It showed a man who appeared to be standing on the observation deck of one of the World Trade Center towers. Pictured over his right shoulder was the nose of a jet. …

JFK Assassination

November 21, 2013 9/11, cia, tuskegee experiment

Archived 6 years ago from Live Science
Why JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories Are So Appealing

Fifty years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy fell to an assassin’s bullet in Dallas. To this day, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that a conspiracy was responsible for the president’s death. That widespread suspicion of the official story — that lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK …

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