Category Archives: Conspiracy Theories

5.20.2013

by Mike Rothschild

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

by Mike Rothschild

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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4.26.2013

by Josh DeWald

Skepticism and me

I was recently asked “Do you really need evidence for everything?” That’s actually a difficult question to answer, but the short answer is “yes, I do”. In practice, I don’t need to look up absolutely everything because I have already / read more…

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4.25.2013

by M O'Callaghan

Peer Review and the MMR-Autism Debacle

When a study is submitted to a scientific journal, it goes through a number of stages, at any of which, its publication could be rejected. The editorial team check the paper. They ensure it fits within the scope of their / read more…

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4.22.2013

by Mike Rothschild

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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4.17.2013

by Stephen Propatier

False Flag Fallacy Frustration

Recently a fellow Skeptoid blog poster wrote a piece about false flag attacks/myths. He did a wonderful job and I do not wish to retread all it’s very salient points. I live within 50 miles of Boston Massachusetts, I day trip there, and / read more…

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4.16.2013

by Mike Weaver

IMO: UFOs and Alien Visitation

In this installment of IMO (in my opinion), let’s talk a bit about UFOs and alien visitation. UFOs, in this context, doesn’t exactly mean “Unidentified Flying Objects” but rather “Alien Spacecraft” (or possibly government experimental craft, time travelers, inter-dimensional travelers, I’m going to stick / read more…

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4.15.2013

by Mike Rothschild

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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4.10.2013

by Stephen Propatier

Conspiracy Palooza

I always find conspiracy theories to be the most interesting aspect of the information age. The thought process fascinates me. I also love to see how conspiracy thinking breeds conspiracy thinking. There was a national telephone survey questioning 1247 registered US voters on / read more…

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4.8.2013

by Mike Rothschild

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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