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Tag Archives: conspiracy theories
When Crackpots War
Happened into a video on YouTube alleging that Ronpaul is actually a “luciferian” member of the dastardly and super-secret Illuminati / Freemason / Roman Catholic / CFR world conspiracy. Many Ronpaulists of course support Paul because they believe him to … Continue reading
Bleh, Sullivan.
Just when I was thinking that Andrew Sullivan must have hit some sort of moral and intellectual bottom by now, I read his retrospective on neoconservatism. It turns out the philosophy was actually a vast Zionist conspiracy: The closer you … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs
Tagged Andrew Sullivan, conspiracy theories, Dick Cheney, Israel, Likud, neoconservatism, Pat Buchanan, zionism
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The Cult of Nutritionism Suffers a Setback
(photo: gualtiero) In a fine blow to the pseudoscientific cult of nutritionism, an intensive study conducted by the National Institutes of Health applied the same laboratory standards to vitamin supplements as are routinely applied to pharmaceuticals. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, science
Tagged alternative medicine, cancer, conspiracy theories, counterknowledge, cult, Damian Thompson, disease, drugs, Edgar R. Miller, epidemiology, green tea, health, healthcare, heart disease, Johns Hopkins University, Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, medicine, modernity, National Institutes of Health, nineteenth century, Nutritionism, pharmaceuticals, placebo, pseudoscience, quackery, School of Medicine, science, snake oil sales, Technology, vitamin supplements
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Another Palin Smear Campaign Fails
Turns out the allegation of the Leftblogs that Palin associate Scott Richter was concealing an extramarital affair with Sarah, was just another desperate conspiratorial invention. TSG uncovers the exceedingly boring and ordinary divorce documents Richter filed a sealing motion for. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged conspiracy theories, divorce, leftblogs, Palin, Sarah Palin, Scott Richter, sealing motion, TSG
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After the “Last Chance”
You’ve probably noticed that the catchphrase “last chance” (often in all caps) conspicuously appears again and again in the arguments of many Ronpaulists. Indeed, the phrase is repeated by them almost as frequently as Ronpaul’s name itself, as a kind … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged CFR, conspiracy theories, economic, forum, graphic, Illuminati, last chance, nuts, populist, Ronpaul, Ronpaulism, Ronpaulist
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That Nightmare Ticket
Sadly, Mike Huckabee remains in the race in order to distort it. One has to wonder if the increasingly paranoid crypto-theocrat’s gambit to become McCain’s Vice Presidential nominee succeeds, how substantially will it depress mainstream conservative turnout? I’d say pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Clinton, conservative, conspiracy theories, election, Huckabee, libertarian, McCain, Obama, paranoid, vice president
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Bobby Fischer Dies
For years the answer to the question “can you respect a raving lunatic?” the great ex-American chessmaster died of an unknown ailment in Iceland. Here’s a splendid little video of moments from his greatest triumph, before deranged conspiracy theories and … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged anti-semitism, Bobby Fischer, chess, conspiracy theories, Iceland
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The Fall of Paul?
It looks like the revelations of racism and conspiratorial paranoia in The New Republic may have had a profound effect on the once fanatical Ron Paul movement. The Girl in Short Shorts notes something: “Now today, for the first time … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged conspiracy theories, racism, Ron Paul, Ronpaulism, Technorati, The New Republic
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The Age of Counterknowledge
Damian Thompson at the Daily Telegraph takes a trenchant look at the peculiar popularity and spread of preposterous conspiracy theories in mainstream modern culture. A development he blames on a Ballardian lust for sensation, the spread of the multiculturalist idea … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged antichrist, Ballardian, conspiracy theories, counterknowledge, Culture, goths, internet, multiculturalism, rumor, tolerance
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