The COVID vaccine deniers and QAnon believers coming to speak at the Arizona legislature

May 23, 2023 2020 election, americas frontline doctors, antivax, chloroquine, deep state, great reset, ivermectin, qanon, sidney powell

Archived 3 years ago from Arizona Mirror
The COVID vaccine deniers and QAnon believers coming to speak at the Arizona legislature

A special committee created by the Arizona legislature to examine the state’s response to COVID-19 will feature a litany of speakers who have spread disinformation about the pandemic, vaccines, spoken at QAnon events and have conspiratorial beliefs about the virus, including believing it will usher …

Conspiracy

May 23, 2023 2020 election, big tech, covid19, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from Nature
On modeling the correlates of conspiracy thinking – Scientific Reports

AbstractWhile a robust literature on the psychology of conspiracy theories has identified dozens of characteristics correlated with conspiracy theory beliefs, much less attention has been paid to understanding the generalized predisposition towards interpreting events and circumstances as the …

Nearly 1 in 3 Veterans Agree with Racist Great Replacement Theory, Rand Study Finds

Conspiracy

May 23, 2023 qanon

Archived 3 years ago from Military.com
Nearly 1 in 3 Veterans Agree with Racist Great Replacement Theory, Rand Study Finds

A new study by Rand Corp. has found a much smaller number of veterans, compared to the general population, say they believe in white supremacy, the QAnon conspiracy theory and left-wing extremism. But nearly 18% of veterans did agree with the idea that Americans may have to resort to violence …

Fake picture of explosion at Pentagon spooks Twitter

Conspiracy

May 22, 2023 big tech, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from NBC News
Fake picture of explosion at Pentagon spooks Twitter

A fake image purporting to show an explosion near the Pentagon briefly went viral on Twitter on Monday, leaving fact-checkers to scramble to counter the false claim as it was pushed by a variety of verified accounts. The image, which depicts a large plume of smoke next to a rectangular building …

Doctors Who Spread Medical Misinformation Should Lose Their Licenses. Why Don’t They?

COVID-19

May 22, 2023 5g, alex jones, antivax, cdc, chloroquine, fauci, ivermectin, qanon, rfk jr, sherri tenpenny

Archived 3 years ago from Current Affairs
Doctors Who Spread Medical Misinformation Should Lose Their Licenses. Why Don’t They?

Each of these statements was made during the pandemic by medical doctors who remain licensed to practice medicine. “This virus has a cure. It is called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax. I know you people want to talk about a mask. Hello? You don’t need [a] mask. There is a cure.” Stella …

Conspiracy

May 21, 2023 qanon

Archived 3 years ago from Salon
How conspiracy theories like QAnon got so popular

The last three years have revealed a strange, fundamental truth about American society: we do not exist in a world where we all perceive the same reality. Rather, we exist in a universe of competing beliefs about the nature of the world. And for myriad reasons — including the fundamental way that …

COVID-19

May 18, 2023 antivax, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from Lead Stories
Fact Check: ‘Watch The Water 2’ Does NOT Prove COVID-19 MRNA Vaccines Come From Snake Venom, Do NOT Cause Humans To Produce Venom In Bodies

Bad Chemistry Do COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and treatments for the virus come from snake venom and do the vaccines then cause humans to produce venom in their bodies? In addition, is nicotine the “perfect antidote” for COVID, making the vaccines unnecessary? No, none of those things are true: These …

Conspiracy

May 18, 2023 2020 election, antivax, covid19, maga, nazi, qanon

Archived 3 years ago from The Guardian US
Conspiracy theorists to address US House subcommittee, watchdog warns

Witnesses set to testify to Congress about the “weaponisation” of the US government on Thursday have links to far-right groups and a history of supporting conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines and the January 6 insurrection, a congressional watchdog has warned. In February, Republicans in …

Update: Arizona Republicans’ “expert” panelist is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who said she is on “TeamYe”

9/11

May 17, 2023 alex jones, chemtrails, covid19, qanon

Archived 2 years ago from Media Matters for America
Update: Arizona Republicans’ “expert” panelist is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who said she is on “TeamYe”

Update (5/26/23): Kristen Meghan wrote on Twitter that she withdrew from the event after the panel was criticized for nodding to QAnon with its acronym NCSWIC. Arizona Republican lawmakers at the state and federal level have created a committee that will bring in alleged experts to talk about …

James Comer’s Biden “informant” is “missing” — why MAGA won’t care about this obvious farce

Elections

May 16, 2023 2020 election, maga, qanon, sidney powell

Archived 3 years ago from Salon
James Comer’s Biden “informant” is “missing” — why MAGA won’t care about this obvious farce

File under “Fox News learned nothing from the Dominion lawsuit.” Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo was one of the worst offenders for behavior that led to the record-setting $787 million settlement Fox News paid in a defamation lawsuit filed by a voting machine company falsely accused of “stealing” …

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