#conspiracy theorists
# oddities
Coverage of the fires and ICE protests in Los Angeles this year has been vicious and wildly hyperbolic. It's just a matter of time until your city is next.
# oddities
A new study hints that many QAnon believers weren't far right paranoiacs but totally apolitical bystanders. But how and why were they sucked into Satanic Panic 2.0?
# space
The idea that the Moon landing was faked has by now been debunked by just about everyone and their twice removed sister-in-law's grandma. So, how is it still around?!
# sex
Researchers find that what groups preaching abstinence and chastity excel at doing is giving adherents anxiety, depression, and far right memes.
# oddities
Social media trolls declared "15-minute cities" to be a New World Order plan for open air mass prisons, derailing plans to make North American cities more livable yet again.
# oddities
Proving that we can't just have nice things in the age of social media, the conspiracy theory industry jumped on the first images from JWST.
# oddities
Combine malicious propaganda with paranoid people who want to believe they know secrets they don't, and you get a noxious mess.
# longform
Today's conspiracy theorists are baffling to old school skeptics because their motives are completely different, much simpler, and much more disturbing.
# politics
It's bad enough when conspiracy theorists with an axe to grind decide who gets to run nations. It's far worse when those they elect are just as wild-eyed and paranoid.
# oddities
According to an empirical study of the subject, if you're trying to avoid the mind control rays of sinister government agencies, a tinfoil hat is the worst choice you could make.
# oddities
Thanks to modern technology and streaming platforms, conspiracy theories are big business, meaning that you're quite literally paying to have people mess with your mind.
# oddities
Flat earthers don't just reject the idea that our world is round, they reject virtually all modern science, technology, and ideas.
# oddities
Turns out conspiracy cruises are less lectures on reptilians and men in black, and more scam informercials for illegal and harebrained financial schemes of sovereign citizens...
# space
Newsweek covers a conspiracy theory that seemed created solely for the sake of creating a conspiracy.
# oddities
You can try to convince fervent conspiracy theorists that they're wrong, or you could do something more productive, like talking to a brick wall.
