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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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. …
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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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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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Two years from today Americans will observe the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It is likely to be a moment of national introspection, as well as an opportunity to complete the historical record of one of the most painful days in American history. Yet, …
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