The retired US Navy SEAL credited with the assassination of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden is speaking out after US President Donald Trump amplified a baseless conspiracy theory suggesting that former US President Barack Obama’s administration actually staged a fake operation, complete with a bin Laden body double. “Very brave men said goodby to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden. We were given the […]
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President Donald Trump backed a budding conspiracy theory on Tuesday that four Americans were killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack to cover up the blood-sacrifice of Navy SEALs and the “fact” that Osama Bin Laden is still alive, marking what is perhaps the president’s strangest brush yet with far-right conspiracy theories. Trump’s promotion of the new Benghazi conspiracy theory, which is fast gaining traction on the […]
It took about two full minutes from President Trump’s tweet confirming that he and Melania Trump had both tested positive for COVID-19 for the Twittersphere to go quite literally crazy with conspiracies. A number of Twitter users have pushed the theory that the president is “faking” the diagnosis to get out of any more disastrous debates or to distract the world from his $750 tax scandal. […]
youtube.com Why People Fall for the ‘Big Lie’ Psychologists are piecing together the personality profiles that are most prone to falling for “Big Lie” theories https://t.co/SeWrvGKXHX — NYT Health (@NYTHealth) September 30, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Why would someone believe that coronavirus was designed and released to destroy the human race? Why would someone believe that the CDC is trying to politically ruin Trump? These beliefs […]
If the internet was a person, ARPANET was its first tooth, Facebook was the pubescent rage of middle school and Bitcoin was the key to its first car. Today, we find ourselves riding shotgun, unsure of what direction the internet will take next. There are those who feel we’re about to careen off a cliff, and others who write off the internet’s dangers as inevitable growing […]
Everyone knows that live television isn’t easy. Anything can go wrong—from a faulty connection, a verbal slip-up, or, as was the case on Tuesday morning’s Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani bellowing insane conspiracy theories at the nation with no obvious way to stop him. It’s always a risk to allow Giuliani to share his wildly unpredictable stream of consciousness live. The man who was named Time […]
New Theory Of How COVID-19 Infects Humans A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged by @tomsmith585 in @elemental https://t.co/5k43HLJsFN — Carol Duff (@CarolDuff18) September 10, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: The Oak Ridge National Lab’s Summit supercomputer put together data of more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples to try to better understand COVID-19 and how it infects people. After analyzing 2.5 billion […]
President Trump has ordered the federal government to stop critical race theory training. The order came even after a summer of protests for racial justice across the country. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP President Trump has ordered the federal government to stop critical race theory training. The order came even after a summer of protests for racial justice across the country. Charlie Riedel/AP […]
The search for alien life in the universe usually focuses on exoplanets orbiting around distant suns, but a new theory proposed by researchers in New York suggests an extreme form of ‘nuclear life’ may be living inside stars. While constantly scanning the skies for Earth-like planets inhabiting the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ of their stars – not too hot but not too cold, allowing for liquid water on […]
Hours before she was set to speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, Mary Ann Mendoza took to Twitter and urged her followers to investigate a supposed Jewish plot to enslave the world. “Do yourself a favor and read this thread,” Mendoza, who is a member of the Trump campaign’s advisory board, tweeted to her more than 40,000 followers early Tuesday morning. Mendoza, an […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. Madonna Goes Full Demon Sperm Madonna is nothing if not the Queen of Reinvention. And the Material Girl was at it again this week, sending shockwaves by revealing that her latest reinvention […]
CNN has whipped up an army of outraged Twitter liberals after it slammed a network of local news stations for airing an interview with a disgraced scientist who blamed Dr Anthony Fauci for the coronavirus. Dr Judy Mikovits is the star of ‘Plandemic,’ a conspiracy documentary claiming that Covid-19 is a ploy by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr Anthony Fauci and Bill […]
Some US officials pushed allegations that the novel coronavirus escaped – or was even deliberately released – from a virology lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The lack of evidence did not prevent the US from accusing China of downplaying the disease and concealing COVID-19-related data, with Trump even dubbing the virus “Chinese” or “Kung Flu”. The US Department of State released an internal cable […]
The researchers say their study hasn’t brought humanity any closer to extracting energy from black holes, but noted that future generations could build a structure that may produce limitless energy using them. An international team of scientists has found an answer to a question that has troubled scientists for more than half a century – can a rotating black hole be used as a source of […]
Codenamed Lockhart, the cheaper, less powerful model could be the first in a range of “Project Scarlett consoles”, and points to a key part of Microsoft’s pricing strategy. Project Scarlett, Microsoft’s original name for its Xbox Series X console, has been long rumoured to encompass two next-gen consoles under the names Anaconda and Lockhart. In March, curious technophiles were quick to discover that etched in the […]
The video of cops in Buffalo pushing an elderly man so hard that his head smashed off the ground and blood started gushing from his right ear shocked people across the nation. But President Trump isn’t convinced it’s real. Tweeting Tuesday morning, the president pushed a baseless conspiracy theory with no evidence that the scene was a “set-up.” Trump wrote: “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could […]
Invoking an unwritten blame game playbook, Rick Scott, a China hawk in the US Senate, claimed there’s proof Beijing tried to frustrate the Western search for a coronavirus vaccine – but there’s also no way you could ever see it. Scott, a senator from Florida, made the headline-grabbing remark while speaking to BBC’s Andrew Marr this Sunday, telling him that the US and the West have […]
________WiredHow the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory tore through the internet It started with one doctor. On January 22, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws published an interview with Kris Van Kerckhoven, a general practitioner from Putte, near Antwerp. “5G is life-threatening, and no one knows it”, read the headline. One scientifically-baseless claim in this article, published in a regional version of the paper’s print edition and since […]
Monday afternoon, America’s most manic snitch sat down in a stairwell at his new undisclosed address to upload an Instagram video about the music industry’s supposed latest mega-scam. “So listen, I want the world to know that Billboard is a lie,” said Tekashi 6ix9ine, or Daniel Hernandez, who was recently released from federal custody, where he was serving out a sentence for nine charges including conspiracy […]
Comment This is one of those that should fall under the title of unlikely things to awaken Brits’ patriotic spirit: a gaggle of anti-5G protestors in the UK’s capital. Yes, the people who gathered in London, against expert medical advice, this past weekend, are idiots. You don’t have to remind us of that. They earnestly believe the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t a real thing. Those people hooked […]
Comment This is one of those that should fall under the title of unlikely things to awaken Brits’ patriotic spirit: a gaggle of anti-5G protestors in the UK’s capital. Yes, the people who gathered in London, against expert medical advice, this past weekend, are idiots. You don’t have to remind us of that. They earnestly believe the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t a real thing. Those people hooked […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo proclaimed that “enormous evidence” shows the COVID-19 outbreak began in a laboratory in Wuhan, raising doubts immediately with his claim as it breaks with a common recognition of global scientists. The World Health Organisation said there were some 15,000 full genome sequences of the novel coronavirus available, and “from all of the evidence that… this virus is of natural origin.” […]