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The idea that the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked
On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-powered rocket. He’d been trying for years, in one way or another. In 2002, Hughes set a Guinness World …
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The wall of ice that holds in the oceans (AP)”Are you serious?””Yes.”That’s the first question and its answer on the Flat Earth Society’s FAQ page. Flat-earthers insist they are serious: they believe our planet is flat.That Earth is in fact spherical was proven long ago, and yet belief in its …
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WWE Flat Earth philosophy has gained the attention of the general public over the past few years. Rapper B.O.B. feuded with Neil deGrasse Tyson about its flaws and merits via diss tracks. NBA player Kyrie Irving rejects the idea that the Earth is round, as well. Several professional wrestlers have …
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The past couple of years have seen the resurgence of the conspiracy theorist, but instead of the foil hat wearing, megaphone-wielding whack job of old, the conspiracy theorist of 2018 sits behind a keyboard and sets up GoFundMe pages raising money to launch homemade rockets.Vaccines cause autism. …
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According to Mike Hughes, who recently canceled his plans to launch himself 1,800 feet high in a homemade scrap metal rocket to prove the Earth is flat, “There’s no difference between science and science fiction.” It may shock you to find out Hughes’ suspicion the Earth is flat is not one unique to …
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If you feel like flat Earth theory has gotten unaccountably popular recently, you’re right. According to Google Trends, search interest in the flat Earth conspiracy theory has already had several distinct peaks in the last year. (“The last year” was 2017, not 1519, just to be clear.) It’s funny, …
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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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A majority of Americans believe that the government is concealing information about the 9/11 attacks, one new survey suggests. And that’s not the only conspiracy theory believed by a wide swath of Americans: Around 40 percent believe the government is hiding information about aliens, the John F. …
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“HAVE YOU HEARD WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING?” This would be a really funny story if so many people didn’t take this stuff seriously. But they do. In fact, atmospheric scientists have gotten so many e-mails, tweets and Facebook posts that drastic measures had to be taken. Now there’s actually been …
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On December 2nd, while the awful news from San Bernardino was erupting, bit by unconfirmed bit, I was surprised by the crisp self-assurance of a couple of bloggers whose names were new to me. They were on it—number of victims, names of shooters, police-radio intercepts. Soon, though, the bloggers …
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