Vax attacks: How conspiracy theory belief undermines vaccine supportChristina E. Farhart aElla Douglas-Durham bKrissy Lunz Trujillo c dJoseph A. Vitriol e
For Kate Starbird, the images were frighteningly familiar. ‘QAnon Shaman’ — the online persona of Jacob Anthony Chansley, or Jake Angeli — is a known superspreader of conspiracy theories that her research group has been monitoring for years....
Following the pandemic, a renewed suspicion of public health figures and agencies is giving new life to ideas that had long since been pushed to the margins. And the impact is far from confined to the dark corners of the web. Arguments spreading rapidly online are reaching millions of people...
Skepticism means, “There is no proof – convince me. I’m willing to learn.” Just as a scientist might, skeptics start with a null hypothesis: “At this point, what you say is not true for me. It will only be true when you provide the evidence for it being so. When you present...
You see this pattern with startup founders too. You don’t want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it. You have to do something that sounds to most other people like a bad idea, but that you know ...
skip to main content molly mckew security feb 27, 2018 3:24 pm how liberals amped up a parkland shooting conspiracy theory a fake story about a parkland student started on the right, but outrage-tweeting on the left propelled it into the mainstream. social media has been rife with...
Local election workers across the country have been threatened and accused of being part of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 presidential election. The legacy of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook is a legacy of misinformation — the start of a crisis that wi...
The spread of misinformation, especially on social media, is giving rise to fringe conspiracy theorists that have no basis in reality. In a new piece for NPR, Zach Mack shares his family's journey as his father's far-right views led him down a path of falsehoods and fictional beliefs...
The practice of hypnotism dates back centuries, and there are those who swear by its validity. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, hypnosis is an interesting phenomenon. Check it out -- and let us know if you start to bark like a dog.
planet's spherical shape. (Nearly spherical, rather: Earth's rotation causes it to be slightly squashed at the poles and swollen at the equator, a shape known as an oblate spheroid.) Andthis pieceby fivethirtyeight.com explains why people believe in conspiracy theories such as the flat-Earth...