1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (598+ words) Ashfaque Chowdhury warns that if teachers shy away from discussing the attacks, pupils will be left harbouring ‘misconceptions’ Camilla's previous roles at The Telegraph include Chief Political Correspondent and Education Editor. And while on the investigations team, she worked on…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (175+ words) Arabic version: استكشاف تطور المعتقدات الشخصية In a recent reflection, Nadine Levy discusses the fluid nature of personal beliefs, emphasizing the importance of viewing them as adaptable rather than fixed. According to The Guardian, she notes that beliefs can either…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (865+ words) Posted April 30, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch This matters because modern societies depend on specialised knowledge. Public health, aviation, infrastructure, medicine, law, finance, and technology all rely on expert competence. When trust in knowledge erodes indiscriminately, societies become more vulnerable to…...

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   (482+ words) (JTA) — As Californian voters checked their mailboxes this week, they found a voter guide containing conspiratorial claims about Israel and antisemitic rhetoric. The mailer, which was sent by California Secretary of State Shirley Weber to the households of all registered…...

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, 3+ 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…...