Author Archives: Mike Rothschild

About Mike Rothschild

Mike Rothschild is a writer and editor based in Pasadena. He is a published playwright, versatile freelancer and has experience creating material for medical, scientific, social media and nonprofit audiences. He is originally from Chicago, is a graduate of the University of Iowa and is available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. Follow his blatherings on Twitter: twitter.com/rothschildmd.

5.20.2013

Some Other Famous Rothschilds

I trust no one with the name Rothschild, sorry… A comment from reader Justin Kies on my piece on false flags gave me food for thought. While it’s a common enough belief that the Rothschild banking family exerts almost limitless / read more…

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5.13.2013

Crisis Actor? What Crisis Actor?

Like “false flag”, the term “crisis actor” has recently become a concept that conspiracy theorists love to throw around when trying to prove that some atrocity is actually a fake, planned by the government as an excuse to strip us / read more…

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5.6.2013

Seven Brilliant Quotes? Not So Much

I feel like I have a pretty good eye for what’s real and what’s not, especially when it comes to memes and photos on the internet. So when I recently saw a friend post a picture on Facebook entitled “Seven / read more…

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4.29.2013

Remembrance of Fads Past: Orgone and Velikovsky

The speed with which trends on the internet move means that something can go from unknown to hugely popular to mocked while one is on a long vacation. But fads themselves are as old as history, and while an internet / read more…

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4.22.2013

Loose Tweets Sink Lives

We’re all familiar by now with the mistakes made in the reporting of the bombing of the Boston Marathon, and how they turned both the “traditional media” and citizen journalists into fountains of misinformation and error. But what hasn’t been / read more…

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4.15.2013

No, Hitler Did Not Let the British Escape at Dunkirk

The first week of June, 1940, was a truly perilous time for the Allies in World War II. The German invasion of France a month earlier had torn apart the over-matched, poorly-led Allied army and drove the remnants back toward / read more…

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4.8.2013

Richard Nixon, Jackie Gleason and Some Dead Aliens

It was a warm night in Florida on February 19, 1973. Two friends had spent part of the day playing golf and chatting about their mutual interests, not unusual behavior for friends to engage in. But these weren’t your usual / read more…

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4.1.2013

Same-Sex Marriage and Logical Fallacies

The issue of whether couples of the same sex should be allowed by law to marry stirs passions on both sides of the question, resulting in a heated debate between those who believe in marriage equality, and those who believe / read more…

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3.25.2013

We Love It! Myths and Legends of Los Angeles

The City of Angels. Tinseltown. La la land. Los Angeles carries a reputation that precedes it in all directions, from the beaches full of beautiful people to the working-class barrios of the east side. It’s flocked to by those looking / read more…

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3.18.2013

Agenda 21: Death by Sustainability?

It’s a Friday night in 2021, and you’ve had a long, hard day. Your job of stamping codes on malaria pills bound for developing countries is unsatisfying, but until a position in another section becomes open (and assuming you pass / read more…

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