Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] that our social science work here merely forms a type of satire and is incompatible with a ‘serious’ sociological analysis and is in effect some kind of conspiracy theory, we can say that it is at times difficult to be able to distinguish between the two when these things are made so; but we […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: Hess DNA: Round 151 Andrew Rosthorn On 22 January 2019, the New Scientist announced:
Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory Founded in 1956 for ‘all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences’, the New Scientist claimed to be settling 79 years of doubt about the identity of a German pilot […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] do know that Coulson’s earlier employer, News International (now News UK), made very little of his return to civvy street five months into his 18-month sentence for conspiracy to hack phones and of the Conservative defeat in what was previously a very safe Tory seat. The linked worlds of criminality, the media, the state […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] who died of a heart attack in 2017 – has a Wikipedia entry in English.2 He was on the right, a nationalist, anti-Islam and occasionally prone to conspiracy theorising. This makes him sound like a nutter, but he wasn’t that. For a while he was deputy editor of a major German daily newspaper, Frankfurter […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] the practice in courts and in the media in a manner so adamant that the few remaining skeptics who accused it of lying were treated like wild-haired conspiracy junkies.’ (p. 164 emphases added) Further on, Snowden makes a more important, and perhaps overlooked revelation, that the scale and scope of the mass surveillance program […]