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The idea that the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked
For the last half-decade, it has felt like we’ve been living in the land of conspiracy, with new rumors and misinformation in need of debunking every day. Reality — or at least an agreed-upon version of it — has never felt easier to detach from, with alternate explanations readily available to …
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Korey Rowe was climbing into the car to report for Army basic training when his best friend stopped him. “He was kind of like, ‘Dude, what are you doing?’” Rowe recalled. “I was like, ‘Don’t worry, man. There’s not going to be a war.’”It was late August 2001. By the end of the year, Rowe was in …
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It was a chilling image: a man visiting New York on a sunny autumn morning on 11 September 2001. He goes to the top of the World Trade Center – like many tourists did – to take a photograph on the building’s observation deck. The picture is snapped just as the first plane is about to hit the tower. …
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Experts say that while conspiracy theories are nothing new in America, the internet has allowed them to spread farther and faster than ever before. NEW YORK — Korey Rowe served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and returned to the U.S. in 2004 traumatized and disillusioned. His experiences overseas and …
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Korey Rowe served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and returned to the U.S. in 2004 traumatized and disillusioned. His experiences overseas and nagging questions about Sept. 11, 2001 convinced him America’s leaders were lying about what happened that day and the wars that followed. The result was …
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People who are antagonistic, exploitative and generally disagreeable are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, according to recent study from a UO researcher. Cameron Kay, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology, found that people who possess personality traits known as the …
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1 INTRODUCTION Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 pose a public health risk. For example, they trigger suspicion about well-established scientific recommendations (Prichard & Christman, 2020; Romer & Jamieson, 2020), hamper response efforts to the pandemic (Buranyi, 2020), and even lead to the …
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In the face of spiking rates of COVID in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis said last Wednesday (July 21), “Here’s, I think, the most important thing with the data: if you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chance of you getting seriously ill or dying from COVID is effectively zero.” Which is odd coming …
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Jul 27th 2021 AMERICANS WHO believe in the conspiracy theories collectively packaged as “QAnon” have grown quiet in recent months. They gained international notoriety after a large group of believers were among those who stormed the US Capitol building during a violent riot on January 6th. But the …
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Conspiracy theories are spreading on social media platforms, and algorithms promoting engagement may contribute to the problem. This article offers a public policy option promising reasonable incentives for social media companies and users to restrain our natural attraction to conspiracy theories. …
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