pseudoscience
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The Myth of the Tin Foil Hat
Open your kitchen drawer and take out some tin foil. Twirl it into a cone – maybe even double-wrap it – and put it on your noggin. Do you feel safer yet? The tin foil hat is perhaps the most iconic headgear for conspiracy theorists. Wearing one signals to others that you’re unhinged, have a…
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Meta Asks Oversight Board if It Can Finally Stop Caring About Covid Misinformation
Meta, the company routinely railed against by experts and lawmakers for turbocharging covid-19 lies, wants its hand-picked Oversight Board to weigh in on whether the whole misinformation thing is still that big of a deal.
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For the First Time in Decades, U.S. Congress Will Hold Public Hearings on UFOs
UFO sightings are no longer restricted to grainy YouTube videos or alien conspiracy subreddits. A House panel will hold the first congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in over 50 years to follow up with a Pentagon report that was released last June on U.S. military sightings of unidentifiable flying vehicles.
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Give Me Control of the Weather Weapons, You Cowards
It has come to Earther’s attention that the U.S. apparently has weather weapons. Noted chumbox enthusiast Alex Jones spent a recent episode of his eponymous show shedding light on the U.S.’s long history of developing and using them.