Thomas Catenacci on May 26, 2021 Liberal media fact checkers were quick to label reporters and lawmakers who supported the lab leak theory as conspiracy theorists in the wake of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. “We can’t disregard these as lunatic conspiracy theories on the fringes,” Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, a progressive media watchdog, stated…
The end of the COVID-19 pandemic may now be in sight, with two vaccines making the rounds and a few more on the way. As of now, they are only available for “high risk” persons (the elderly, health care workers, educators, and such.) It won’t be long until they’re available for the general public, though….
Timothy R. Tangherlini, University of California, Berkeley The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who moments before had fired a shot inside a pizza parlor, an officer asks him why he was there. The man says to investigate a pedophile ring. Incredulous, the…
Some years back, a friend came to me, a bit sheepishly, and suggested that he suspected the existence of a plot at his workplace. Some people he had previously trusted seemed to be up to no good. Because I was familiar with the situation, he asked what my opinion was. I looked into it and…
NASA Responds to Conspiracy Naysayers with Proof of Epic Proportions By Resa Willis Nearly five decades after the fact, conspiracy theories remain ripe about the legitimacy of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon mission, a landmark historical event placing the United States one giant leap ahead in the space race. Listed by Time Magazine as one…
By Ted Goodman Russians apparently like to Netflix and chill too much, because a top Russian official said the popular digital media platform is probably a U.S. government mind control project. In an interview with the Russian news agency Rambler, Vladimir Medinsky, Moscow’s cultural minister, claimed that the online streaming service was part of a conspiracy by the…
Did the government fake the moon landing? Are drug companies hiding cures to deadly diseases? The internet permeates with conspiracy theories of all types, shapes, and sizes. And for those who truly believe in one, not much can sway them. That’s what spurred the interest of David Robert Grimes, a postdoctoral research associate at the University…
On the internet you can come across a lot of theories about government control and secret operations. Of course, most of it is fairly unbelievable. One persistent theory which succeeded in getting many people worked up in the early days of the internet is that the government is either spraying us or spraying the atmosphere…
Conspiracy theories have the potential to make or break any conversation. Like-minded people may discover fellow believers, while others instantly tune out the crazies. But new research conducted by the University of Chicago states that 50% of Americans subscribe to at least one conspiracy theory. Even the more controversial subjects like 9/11 have a larger…