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Trumpian Conspiracy Theories Fuelling Insane Republican Big Lie Advocacy

As I discussed the other day, things are getting progressively worse in the US as half of the country are happy to let it slide towards fascism, and the other half appear powerless to stop it from doing so. Insane conspiracy theories are being used to fuel dangerous voter suppression

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Hawley and Greene Being Bankrolled by Conspiracy Theorists

Senator Josh Hawley and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene have become infamous representations of a large part of the Republican base. Some have distanced themselves from such insanity whilst many more seemed to have closed ranks around these two and the ideas they have espoused. My next piece will be on

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Epistemology: Trump, Fraud and Believing his Swamp

Trump seems to have fully jettisoned himself off the deep end. The latest example of his growing desperation and idiocy is the unhinged phone call he had with the Republican Georgian Secretary of State for which he has now been reported to the FBI for. I have listened to parts

Dominion & Election Fraud Nonsense

Sidney Powell is a Grade A batsh!t crazy conspiracy theorist nutjob. Yes, my evaluation may be unprofessional but I seek to match the professionalism with which she is collecting her "evidence" and presenting her findings. I need not detail the utterly ridiculous assertions she is making about

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Conspiracy Theorists

I like 3lermeope: he (I presume) always brings fine wine to the party, and for that I am hugely grateful. Here, he shares a bottle with C Peterson, and they both like a good pinot:* I don’t care for the conspiracy theorist fools in the thread below spilling their

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Truth Decay and the Normalisation of Conspiracy Theories

So much has gone on recently that I don't know where to start and can't hope to include everything. Conspiracy theories are being flung at as many walls as possible to see what sticks and where, and it's all so depressing. We really are

Religiosity and Anti-Vaxxers

Religiosity is dropping around the United States, that much is obvious from the stats. However, there has been a recent spike in those claiming to be religious, in at kindergarten age, in Vermont. This seems to be as a result of a change in exemption rules to vaccination. It is

The Credibility and Number of Resurrection Witnesses

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The Credibility and Number of Resurrection Witnesses

As I have previously said in my Resurrection series, starting off with looking at the contradictions within the Gospel accounts: The question then becomes, are these contradictions better explained, and are the claims themselves, better explained by an ultimate truth in them, or by an alternative theory? We know from

Anti-Vaxxer Wakefield Has Great Influence in Trump's America

There's nothing about Trump's America that surprises me anymore. In fact, whenever I think about what would be a good and proper thing for a responsible world leader and massively powerful and influential country to do, I am met with the exact opposite. Trump and the

It's a Climate Change Conspiracy!

It's such a ubiquitous claim, and it winds me up because it is so naive. It looks something like this, as made by the endlessly facepalming See Noevo on this thread: Granted, the opportunity for big profits in teaching evolution is not as great as with, say, the

"So you love paedophiles, then!" - a conspiracy theorist and fallacies

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"So you love paedophiles, then!" - a conspiracy theorist and fallacies

You need to know a few things before reading this: 1) The BBC got into trouble last year for having a serial paedophile (celebrity DJ and charity man Jimmy Savile) about whom I wrote this post about cognitive dissonance. 2) I went to a Skeptics in the Pub talk last night given by Rob Brotherto

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I Argued with a Creationist, Flat Earther Conspiracy Theorist - They Exist!

I couldn't believe it. This happened a few weeks ago at my "God on Trial" talk in Bournemouth at the Bournemouth Skeptics in the Pub. Half way through the talk, for some reason, evolution was challeneged. The whole talk almost got derailed as I took the

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The Conspiracy Theory Flowchart "THEY" Don't Want You To See

Crispian Jago, a local rational thinker, has produced this rather amusing and apt flow chart. It can be found at his blog, Reason Stick. I look forward to seeing his talk at the upcoming Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub.