Category Archives: Conspiracy Theories

3.16.2013

by Eric Hall

Trusting the Internet

A few weeks back, I stirred up a bit of controversy when some people thought I was showing a liberal bias by debunking some social media posts. One of the sources I generally pick to make a quick check on / read more…

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3.15.2013

by Josh DeWald

MercolaWatch:Aspartame and milk

I swear I try really hard to avoid talking about aspartame all the time but it seems to be a lost cause. For the past few weeks, my news feed has been filled with various articles claiming that the food / read more…

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2.18.2013

by Mike Rothschild

St. Malachy and the Prophecy of the Popes

Is it a forewarning of great tribulation to come? Or an obvious forgery with no more accuracy than a strip-mall tarot card reading? Since the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, both fringe and mainstream media outlets have buzzed about the / read more…

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oh Dogon it!

It’s a weird “credit”, but one of the persons who brought me into skepticism, was Von Däniken, the Swiss guy claiming that we have been visited in the past by alien civilizations, and that proof of this can be found / read more…

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2.11.2013

by Mike Rothschild

IV Conspiracies Involving Super Bowl XLVII

A few minutes after the lights went out during Super Bowl XLVII, with Baltimore beating San Francisco 28-6 early in the third quarter, I tweeted an inside-jokey bit that was more or less intended to make only me laugh:

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1.29.2013

by Mike Weaver

The Mystery of OOParts

A recent article published in The Voice Of Russia by Yulia Zamanskaya tells the tale of an anomalous piece of metal found embedded in a piece of coal. The metal was unusual, being an alloy of aluminum and magnesium, mostly / read more…

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Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Pseudoscience / Science

1.28.2013

by Mike Rothschild

One Weird Trick to Rule Them All

Hey, you there. Sitting at your computer, clicking away. Times are tough, right? You’re feeling lethargic and a bit overweight, yes? Your skin has gotten blotchy and your teeth aren’t as white as they used to be. You’ve got a / read more…

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1.21.2013

by Mike Rothschild

False Flag Attacks: Myth and Reality

One of the terms most commonly used by conspiracy theorists when discussing “the real story” behind incidents like the September 11th attacks or the recent Sandy Hook shooting is “false flag,” meaning that it was caused or staged deliberately to / read more…

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1.18.2013

by Josh DeWald

MercolaWatch: Misrepresentation of dental amalgams

Joe Mercola just published another of his articles which presents dental amalgams (silver fillings) as all bad and also calls out “dental review boards” for revoking licensure of dentists who remove amalgams. While ideally we would release no mercury into / read more…

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1.15.2013

by Brendan McKinney

Dead Presidents and Living Victims

I was disappointed, although not really surprised, to hear that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has publicly expressed his doubt that his uncle was killed by a lone gunman. This year will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, / read more…

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