#conspiracy
# oddities
Last year, social media's far right denizens were fuming about walkable cities and neighborhoods. They're still fuming to this day.
# oddities
Nine years on, conspiracy theories and questions are still flying around the fate of flight MH370. And they will never stop.
# oddities
An absurd conspiracy embraced by a GOP congresswoman would be funny if she wasn't serious and if people knew more about how lasers and space solar really work.
# oddities
Older, conservative Americans have become engrossed in conspiracy theories and fear-mongering propaganda. Now, they're paying the price as their families start to cut ties.
# longform
When populists, demagogues, and authoritarians insist on attacking experts for trying to fix the problems their dogmas created, the consequences can destroy entire nations.
# health
Plandemic is just a rapid-fire tsunami of lies and anti-vaccine tropes with something for every conspiracy theorist.
# 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
Having apparently ran out of enemies for a night, Fox News decided to battle a new foe during its primetime lineup: the tyranny of the ubiquitous metric system.
# 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.
# tech
Pundits are charging that not only are tech billionaires taking advantage of their employees and automating them out of a job, they're actually on a mission to make humans obsolete.
# 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
Pizzagaters and Flat Earthers were bound to share adherents by the rules of crank magnetism. That doesn't mean they're happy about it.
# oddities
Skeptical blogger Marlon Solomon lays out a persuasive case that we missed a toxic neo-Nazi ideology hiding under Icke's veneer of immortal alien reptilians.
# oddities
Buckle up for a classic DARPA mass brainwashing/mind control conspiracy with an identity theft twist...