As the Great American Eclipse of 2024 on April 8 draws near, the mainstream media has been packed with stories that debunk various "conspiracy theories." Of course in order to have a "conspiracy theory," you have to have more than one individual that is alleged to be involved in some sort of a "conspiracy," so I have no idea how that term can possibly be applied to what is going on in the heavens. In any event, there are certainly a lot of theories about this eclipse that are clearly not...
In Umberto Eco's classic novel "Foucault's Pendulum," a group of friends develop a ridiculous conspiracy theory as a game, only to start believing it themselves, with horrible consequences for everyone involved. Now, many Republicans have stumbled into the same trap, promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that will make it harder for them to win in 2024. The latest example comes from Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde, the GOP’s likely nominee against Democratic Sen. Tammy...
Keanu Reeves helped to ignite the imaginations of millions with his role in the seminal science fiction movie The Matrix. Stringing together concepts and influences from across the sci-fi genre, The Matrix made us all think twice about our notions of reality at least whenever you see a black cat, or get an instance of déjà vu. Continue reading Keanu Reeves believes this strange conspiracy theory about Shakespeare
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Former President Donald Trump is turning to one of his favorite themes, the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday came to the former president’s Florida compound to announce that he would introduce a bill to stop those who are not citizens from
Former President Donald Trump turned to one of his favorite themes on Friday — the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson came to the former president’s Florida compound to announce that he would introduce a bill to stop those who are not citizens from voting in elections. Trump has […]
New research shows this was true both for people who self-identified as liberal and conservative
This week’s elections didn’t generate a lot of national attention, but NBC News reported on one notable result from one of the nation’s most closely watched battlegrounds. With just about all of the votes tallied, the results on Wisconsin’s Question 1 weren’t especially close: Proponents prevailed by nearly nine points. At first blush, this might not seem especially controversial. Voters in the Badger State simply took steps to ban private funding from the administration of public elections. But...
The voting tech company Smartmatic entered into a settlement with One America News to resolve its lawsuit against the network for peddling lies about the 2020 election.
Conspiracy theorists get a bad rap in popular culture, yet research has shown that most Americans believe conspiracy theories of some sort. Why then, if most of us believe conspiracies, do we generally think of conspiracy theorists as loony?
A new study out of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dispels a popular coronavirus-related conspiracy theory that’s been popular among right-wingers. For a while now, anti-vaxxers have pointed to highly publicized incidents of people — particularly, young people — suffering cardiac arrest and concluded that their conditions must have been caused by the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine. Several Fox News hosts, for example, tried to blame the vaccine for LeBron James Jr.'s suffering a...
"It would appear some massive sacrifice could possibly be in the works"
If you are a conspiracy theorist, it doesn’t get much bigger for you than for a total solar eclipse to occur. The fact that an eclipse only happens once every 10 to 12 years or so makes it the perfect event to connect to some outlandish predictions. For instance, the next total solar eclipse to […]