[…] never be labeled as guilty of disinformation. Not when they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptops, not when they claimed that the lab leak was a racist 3 conspiracy, not when they said that vaccines stopped transmission of the novel coronavirus. Disinformation, now and for all time, is whatever they say it is. The authors7 […]
[PDF file]: […] example of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy is hard to imagine. The Times followed their tiny ‘scoop‘ with a version of three other familiar ‘British conspiracy theories’, as they put it, about Wilson. The Times sections are italicised A KGB plot One conjecture connects Harold Wilson to the sudden death of Hugh […]
[PDF file]: […] lasted nearly two months and involved over 350 witnesses. For good measure, Mary Surratt, landlady of a Washington boarding-house, was also hanged. She had supposedly harboured the conspiracy while it was being hatched, and Booth had tried to recruit her son into it. The Lincoln plotters’ objective was to somehow overthrow the Union government […]
[PDF file]: […] with the story at . 37 or 38 15 You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.33 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.34 28 29 30 or 31 Notably The Man Who Knew too Much . 32 See, for example, […]
[…] of parapolitics T l1e provenance of LOBSTER is as unusu �l as its name. In 1982, Robin Ra1nsay and Stephen Dorr1l, h10 of Great Britain’s self-proclaimed eminent conspiracy theorists, decided to emulate the radical anti-CIA Professor Peter Dale Scott (University of California, Berkeley), wl1om they admired. 100 Tl1ey did so by ptiblishing a small […]
[…] was the last book which supported the Warren Commission. You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[…] was the last book which supported the Warren Commission. You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[PDF file]: […] the truth. But, as history has shown all too often, the desires of mass audiences can be deflected and manipulated by powerful interests. Take, for example, the conspiracy theory which holds that the psychedelic counter-culture of the 1960s was engineered by the CIA as part of a plot by a secret, global elite bent […]
[…] Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a or 1 1 corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).2 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea. His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
