Friday, May 15, 2020

Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't Really Out to Get You

Yet conspiracism here and around the world has destroyed great institutions, eradicated knowledge, endangered democracy, and ended lives. Now—fueled by the internet, partisan media, and the 45th president of the United States—paranoid thinking is more powerful, and more dangerous, than ever, threatening not just individual facts, but the idea that empirical truth exists at all. [More]
Coming from The Atlantic, that's almost funny.

I'd like to see the empirical case for conspiracies not existing.

[Via Michael G]

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