#oddities
# oddities
According to pundits and politicians, we live in a world where talent and reward go hand in hand. But basic statistics says that's simply not possible.
# oddities
Sam Bankman-Fried may be going to prison, but those who inspired him to open FTX and turned a blind eye to his crimes are still out there.
# oddities
Far from trying to depopulate the Earth, wealthy elites want us to reproduce with unholy zeal until we have no choice but to colonize space.
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Unlike pop sci headlines keep telling you, scientists have not found any evidence that we're all just products of an alien computer.
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In a move sure to frustrate ufologists and conspiracy theorists, NASA says that UFOs are almost certainly not aliens.
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As more banks, pension funds, and investors don't want to keep pouring money into burning toxic dead things, Big Fossil is threatening to sue them.
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Summaries of ethnographic journals said something fundamentally different than the journals themselves.
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Nine years on, conspiracy theories and questions are still flying around the fate of flight MH370. And they will never stop.
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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.
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Ancient Apocalypse is not a bold new exploration of human history. It's a cheap, lazy rehash of myths and cliches debunked a century ago.
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Wealthy investors and tycoons are joining the ranks of doomsday preppers, planning elaborate post-apocalypse compounds and bunkers, or dystopian power grabs.
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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.
# 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.
