Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# oddities
With the Soviet space program often shrouded in secrecy, there are many tales of cosmonauts whose grim fates were deliberately omitted from the country's history.
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Conspiracy theorists and religious zealots waiting for the End Times have some surprisingly strong opinions in the cash vs. digital money debate...
# politics
Conspiracy ideation is at its purest form when it comes to partisan politics.
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Trying to debunk conspiracy theories alongside search results might just convince conspiracy theorists that the search engines are in on the sinister scheme they're researching.
# oddities
Apparently, conspiracy theorists picture life in the Illuminati as being a member of a racist BDSM dungeon...
# politics
According to the Kremlin, David Icke isn't a wide-eyed conspiracy theorist preaching about immortal alien lizards running the Earth but a serious political scientist.
# oddities
Christian zealots and Muslim fundamentalists find new common ground: that evolution is a myth created by the Jews to subjugate the world.
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Unsurprisingly, bin Ladens death immediately spawned a raft of conspiracy theories around what really happened in Abbottabad.
# science
The holidays are a time for family, which often means arguments with woo-loving relatives...
# oddities
It's been a busy week for conspiracy theorists and cautionary tales for those who believe in them.