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.
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Conspiracy theories are still looking for frozen Nazis in a fabled underground base.
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WikiLeaks and pro-Kremlin trolls are charging the CIA with hacking the DNC to rig the election for Trump so they can... keep Trump from winning?
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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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The Daily Mail, an infamously fact-averse tabloid, decided to fire a preemptive shot against Snopes by smearing its founders and screaming bias.
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A new experiment shows that ridicule as almost as effective as debunking when it comes to dissuading people from falling for conspiracy theories.
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Welcome to 2016 where the news is made up, reality doesn't matter, and conspiracies suddenly start making sense.
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We figured out the recipe for conspiracy theorists. And, unwittingly, so has social media...
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Right wing conspiracists weaponized partisan politics and concern about children into a toxic theory that's spilling out into the real world.
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To keep their jobs, climate change denialists erected a conspiracy theory that's buckling under its own weight.