3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (95+ words) The simple minded and the uninformed can be easily led astray. And those who can not connect the dots look the other way. People believe what they want to bel...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (84+ words) + Is bullying on the rise in Switzerland? + Third of Swiss prone to believe conspiracy theories The study also showed that a small group of young people whose basic trust was shaken early on recovered significantly later in life. “In addition…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (646+ words) People only use about 10% of their brain. It’s a fact we’ve all heard—except it isn’t a fact at all. It’s a myth. While activity in some brain regions fluctuates depending on what you’re doing, you use pretty much all…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (721+ words) Voicing these beliefs can strain established social connections and alienate peers. Family members and friends often report reduced satisfaction in their relationships when a loved one begins endorsing hidden plots. Romantically, having a partner who adopts these worldviews often precedes…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (68+ words) Hold on, let me scan for suspicious veins, or the lack thereof. Conspiracy theories are an absolute menace. Whatever your opinion of Trump, why would they "stage" an attempted attack on the White House and get hundreds of people to…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (841+ words) Previous work has identified two separate predictors of these beliefs. First, people have varying levels of “conspiracy thinking,” which is a general psychological tendency to assume that secret, sinister forces control world events. Second, people tend to favor their own…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (460+ words) There are plenty of valuable things to spend your time on. Conspiracy theories aren’t one of them. My family and I often poke good-natured fun at this, but even with the humor, it can get tiring when a new conspiracy…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (423+ words) Whether it’s an uncle’s weird posts that you see every time you have to log back into Facebook, or a friend who keeps wittering on down the pub, most of us have someone in our lives who is obsessed with…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (846+ words) When you think about conspiracy theories or theorists, you probably imagine a crazy person with a tin foil hat going on about how people in the government are lizards. You might also think about that meme from “It’s Always Sunny…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (136+ words) The Free Press They were “kidnapping our loved ones and replac[ing] them with a bitter hollow shell of what they once were.” This sounds like a line from the campy 1978 sci-fi horror flick Invasion of the Body Snatchers, about…...