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Pizzagaters and Flat Earthers were bound to share adherents by the rules of crank magnetism. That doesn't mean they're happy about it.
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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.
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The Daily Mail, an infamously fact-averse tabloid, decided to fire a preemptive shot against Snopes by smearing its founders and screaming bias.
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A new experiment shows that ridicule as almost as effective as debunking when it comes to dissuading people from falling for conspiracy theories.
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Welcome to 2016 where the news is made up, reality doesn't matter, and conspiracies suddenly start making sense.
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We figured out the recipe for conspiracy theorists. And, unwittingly, so has social media...
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Right wing conspiracists weaponized partisan politics and concern about children into a toxic theory that's spilling out into the real world.
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To keep their jobs, climate change denialists erected a conspiracy theory that's buckling under its own weight.
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Alex Jones' deepest, darkest fear isn't reptilian aliens. It's experts and wonks with who cramp his and his fans' style.
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Remember the Satanic Panic of the 1990s and the various cranks promoting it? It turns out they never quite moved on to something else...
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Buckle up for a classic DARPA mass brainwashing/mind control conspiracy with an identity theft twist...
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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...
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Alex Jones and his fan club are apparently convinced that the drought in California is a sinister New World Order experiment.
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A new conspiracy book thinks it has a slam dunk argument for why humans were genetically engineers by aliens.
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Hersh's wild tale of bin Laden's death somehow manages to make virtually every detail utterly implausible with the slightest research into it.
