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
Thanks to modern technology and streaming platforms, conspiracy theories are big business, meaning that you’re quite literally paying to have people mess with your mind.
# podcast
Nearly 6 in 10 otherwise perfectly normal Americans believe in some sort of conspiracy theory. We look at both current events and science to figure out why.
# oddities
Flat earthers don't just reject the idea that our world is round, they reject virtually all modern science, technology, and ideas.
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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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Buckle up for a classic DARPA mass brainwashing/mind control conspiracy with an identity theft twist...
# science
A study of conspiracy theorists shows that conspiratorial ideation is actually a political, not a logical matter.
# health
Anti-vaccine activists funded the most complete and thorough study of vaccine safety done to their exact specifications. Now they're livid because it found nothing even remotely concerning.
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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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Hersh's wild tale of bin Laden's death somehow manages to make virtually every detail utterly implausible with the slightest research into it.