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Here are some of the wildest perennial space myths that just won’t go die. Credit: NASA/Getty On the internet, you need to be a skeptical reader these days. Claims of aliens and UFOs, Mars being abnormally big, or the moon turning green are the kinds of things you should check out carefully. Here …
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Updated: Nov 28, 2018 Original: May 1, 2017 The National Archives may begin releasing the classified documents within weeks—unless President Trump intervenes. Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy during a 1960 campaign stop. (Credit: Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Under the JFK …
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Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is author, most recently, of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. This essay is drawn from the afterword to the new paperback edition of the book, scheduled for publication by …
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Project MKUltra began on this day in 1953 and continued for years Kat Eschner April 13, 2017 Many of the records from MKUltra have been destroyed, but 8,000 pages of records were discovered in 1977. iStock On this day in 1953, the then-Director of Central Intelligence officially approved project …
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Kanye West was hospitalized on Monday shortly after canceling the last 21 shows of his national tour. Most reports suggest the rapper suffered from temporary psychosis, but some paranoiac skeptics believe that he is just being reprogrammed after challenging the status quo and praising Donald Trump. …
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The foundations of what was to become known as “enhanced interrogation” were laid when Kirk Hubbard, the CIA’s director of behavioural research and an APA member, commissioned James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, two ex-US air force psychologists, to deliver a report on possible “countermeasures to …
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If you believe the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked in a studio in 1969, this movie is for you. Even if you never bought into that urban myth, you may be impressed by the technical achievement of “Operation Avalanche,” which suggests that two nerdy young CIA agents (played by director Matt Johnson …
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If you’re like most people, you’re having trouble keeping track of the nation’s growing stockpile of conspiracy theories. It’s becoming harder and harder to separate the birthers from the truthers from the grassy knollers and all the rest. But there’s one conspiracy theory that, regrettably, is …
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If you’re like most people, you’re having trouble keeping track of the nation’s growing stockpile of conspiracy theories. It’s becoming harder and harder to separate the birthers from the truthers from the grassy knollers and all the rest. But there’s one conspiracy theory that, regrettably, is …
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This Friday (Sept. 16) an ethically questionable and totally thrilling fake documentary about the first moon landing premieres in theaters. In the film, titled “Operation avalanche,” two CIA agents pose as documentary filmmakers to infiltrate NASA and investigate a Russian mole. Then they stage the …
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