Filed Under: “Conspiracism”

Embracing uncertainty may be a better way to cure conspiracist thinking

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If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, labels can make the truth that much harder to find


Turning Point USA’s ‘America Fest’ conference blends concerts with Christian nationalism and political activism

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GOP donors are spending massively on parties to keep Republican-leaning young people engaged and indoctrinated


In first, U.S. labeled ‘backsliding democracy’ in report detailing state of democracy worldwide

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More than one in four people globally live in backsliding democracies, which also include Brazil and India, according to the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance


Ghost stories tell us more about ourselves than the supernatural creatures they describe

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Resorting to the supernatural to explain the unexplainable is a failure of imagination


Barry Goldwater’s critics saw today’s Republican extremism in 1964

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The conspiracism, Christian nationalism, and pandering to racists we see today in the GOP was brought into the party long before Trump


CEO of company hired by Arizona Republicans touts fake audit’s Christian nationalism

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Doug Logan boasts of unofficial recount workers changing religions, warns Americans to ‘turn away from their wicked ways’


Heeding Steve Bannon’s call, election conspiracy theorists are taking over the GOP to continue Trump’s lies

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After being forced out of the Trump White House, the ousted former Breitbart editor sees election delusion as a path to return to power


Ivermectin isn’t being ‘suppressed’ as a Covid-19 treatment, it’s being investigated, because that’s how science works

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Desperate for a cheap Covid-19 cure, many people have prematurely latched onto a drug that’s only been proven as a treatment for tapeworms and other parasites


Missouri GOP legislators promote vaccine conspiracies as Delta variant runs wild in state

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One state representative publicly joked about refusing vaccines because ‘we’re Republicans’


On vaccines, deliberate ignorance shouldn’t be treated the same as hesitance

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Coddling delusions doesn’t make them go away, it makes them stronger


 

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