conspiracy theories

With the rampant spread of fake news and conspiracy theories, Canadian students would benefit from extra lessons in BS detection.

A new book traces how QAnon’s openness to bizarre, dangerous beliefs has lent it terrifying power

Paul Wells: If you want to believe in goofy faux-science theories—from the flat earth to cupping—it’s pretty easy nowadays to find a like-minded friend

The release of new documents related to the JFK assassination won’t satisfy conspiracy theorists who have always misunderstood how politics and power interact

Just how big a threat are Trump’s conspiracy theories to the democratic process in America?

Colby Cosh on conspiracy theories, Snowden Effects and the 1996 explosion of a plane off the coast of New York

Rumours about bin Laden are only the latest in a toxic new wave of conspiracy theories

Recession, war: nothing slows U.S. paranoia productivity. And nation, we can’t fall behind.

Screenyoinked from parl.gc.ca earlier this afternoon:

OMG OMG! You’ll never believe this — like, moments after typing up the final entry in my liveblog of the Avaaz.ca campaign launch, who should appear in front of me but a friendly neighbourbood John Baird campaign staffer, bearing a stack of freshly printed press releases bearing the fabulously evocative headline: “SHADOWY FOREIGN ORGANIZATION ATTEMPTING TO INFLUENCE CANADIAN ELECTION” – which would be awesome enough all on its own, but the subhead made it even better: Apparently – their words, not mine – a “Wall Street Billionaire” is “bankrolling [the] campaign”.