Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong
The podcast grift economy is bringing tabloid-y, sensationalist drama to the world of theoretical physics.| Futurism
INTERVIEW ON THE PRICE OF BUSINESS SHOW, MEDIA PARTNER OF THIS SITE. Recently Kevin Price, Host... The post Was Charlie Kirk’s “Hit” a Professional Job? Did Politics Make Him Expendable? And Who Wanted Him Gone? appeared first on The Daily Blaze.| The Daily Blaze
"Inside the mind of the most prolific anti-5G arsonist in the world—and the incoherent, very online political violence of our era."| Longreads
The podcast grift economy is bringing tabloid-y, sensationalist drama to the world of theoretical physics.| Futurism
[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on September 1, 2025.] The Trump administration’s botched handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal put conspiracy theories back in the headlines. It has also highlighted that assessing conspiracy theories’ political meaning and significance can be complicated. Epstein, financier and convicted child sex offender, …| Kersplebedeb
Will the United States abandon lifesaving efforts to research and fight the virus?| Mother Jones
What if there are factors besides the claims of the gospel itself that are making it hard or impossible for the unbelieving world to accept?| Baptist News Global
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger We are pleased to announce that our article, “From Creationism to QAnon: Answers in Genesis and the Culture Wars,” has been published in the June issue of…| Righting America
If I warn you about the dangers of red flags, am I an alarmist? How to recognise this tactic Those who use this tactic insist that the current scientific consensus on some issue is corrupt. This, they claim, is because a group of scientists has colluded to hype the position which favours its own interests. […]| Science or not?
The Epstein mythology can be roughly defined as the popular belief, nearly ubiquitous on social media and adjacent outlets, that the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein orchestrated a sprawling child sex-trafficking operation.| Compact
This issue of A Public Witness opens up the Epstein case to explore the dangers of phony, conspiratorial self-righteousness and how it captured so many conservative Christian figures.| Word&Way
Volume 14, Issue 5, 1–102, May 2025 ❧ Fuller, Steve. 2025. “Elon Musk Meets Max Weber: The Logic of Dogelectics.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 14 (5): 1–6. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-9MO.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Let me begin by thanking Alexios Stamatiadis-Bréhier for his insightful discussion (2025), which has helped me think through this material more carefully and explore ways to extend it. In the following, I will first make a few quick clarificatory remarks to minimize the danger of confusion. I then take up what I take to be the most pressing response Stamatiadis-Bréhier offers to my misgivings about the epistemic use of genealogies to debunk conspiracy theories. Lastly, I briefly respond to ...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
What it means to live an optimized life and why Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint just doesn’t get it| Coda Story
But we are also tasked with knowing truth from lies, real hope from false hope, the breath of the Spirit from the suffocation of deceit.| Christianity Today
In “Rethinking Conspiracy Theories: Method First! A Reply to Shields”, Sanja Dembić pushes back against elements of my article “Rethinking Conspiracy Theories” (2022). Dembić starts her reply by giving a clear and accurate reconstruction of my main argument. I present a novel critique of generalism—the view that conspiracy theories are epistemically defective by their very nature. (To indicate that this is the relevant meaning, I’ll continue with Quassim Cassam’s convention of...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I thank Kurtis Hagen for his reply (2025). It is valuable for people with very different perspectives like us to candidly lay out our disagreements. While Hagen makes several points that merit…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
On the Epstein files rug-pull.| The Dispatch
When Tony Blair says, “But honestly, I mean, conspiracy theories,” he appears to be encouraging the dismissal of the theory in question simply by suggesting that it counts as a conspiracy theory.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In her new novel, Panic, Catherine Jinks provides a timely take on online mobs, conspiracy theorists, and sovereign citizens.| Newtown Review of Books
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Volume 13, Issue 12, 1–55, December 2024 ❧ de Lorenzo, Víctor. 2024 “Towards a New Materialism: A Comment on Armstrong’s ‘Life, Mind and Matter’.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 13…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I am very grateful to Kurtis Hagen (2024) for pressing me on this topic. Working through his criticisms helped me to refine, modify, and improve my thoughts about where particularist allegations…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In my last post—a short introduction to this series of blogs I’m calling Bad Theology—I asked why evangelical Christians seemed so susceptible to the blandishments of Donald Trump and his allies. W…| Peripatetic Pastor
Tim Alberta opens his bestselling book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (HarperCollins 2023), by recounting a February 2021interview with Chris W…| Peripatetic Pastor
Michigan's part-time clerks, who are trained every four years and have limited resources in running elections, are at a breaking point.| Stateline
By Rylie Oswald John Kenneth White, author of Grand Old Unraveling, talks about combating political conspiracy theories during election season in a Author John Kenneth White talks about combatting conspiracy theories in a digital age.| University Press of Kansas
The legendary attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who devoted a great deal of time to exhaustive debunking of JFK conspiracy theories, once asked an audience he was addressing how many of them distrusted th…| The Propaganda Professor
We might think we know all about every U.S. president in history. But there are still a few unsolved mysteries about past presidents and their affairs.| Grunge
Rapper Snoop Dogg was accused of wearing a "satanic" necklace at the Paris 2024 Olympics. He debunked the claims, but some fans weren't convinced.| Grunge
In 2023, M R. X. Dentith edited a special issue—”Conspiracy Theory Theory”—of Social Epistemology (37:4). SERRC readers are familiar with Dentith’s philosophical work on conspiracy theory theory—work…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In 2023, M R. X. Dentith edited a special issue—”Conspiracy Theory Theory”—of Social Epistemology (37:4). SERRC readers are familiar with Dentith’s philosophical work on conspiracy theory theory—work…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Fervent, overly determined techno-optimism has much in common with the ideation of conspiracy theories relating to advanced technologies. In fact, advocates of techno-optimist futures, and the proponents of conspiracy theories such as the supposed causal relationship between 5G and COVID-19, share common cognitive, dispositional and contextual characteristics.| Matthew Moran
In February 2023, All Together Now published a report (see below) detailing the result of the Agent C Project Pilot, as independently evaluated by Urbis. According to Urbis the Agent ... Read more| All Together Now
Sweet Baby Inc doesn't even remotely do what many think it does, but on the modern internet, that doesn't matter| aftermath.site
For many philosophers, it doesn’t seem right to say that we are mainly in the business of trying to describe our concepts. We are, at our best, trying to improve them. ‘Conceptual engineering’ describes this vision of philosophical practice. It is not hard to see its appeal. This metaphilosophical orientation gives us a clear mission that caters to what many take to be our distinct skill set: a combination of conceptual analysis and normative argument. … [please read below the rest of...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Audible Inc., the world’s largest producer and provider of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, in conjunction with The Great Courses, is creating audio-only, non-fiction content for Audible’s millions of listeners. The first three titles include Dr. Michael Shermer’s new and original course on: Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should Believe and Why. Order […]| Michael Shermer
Before COVID, I was probably best known for three things: I wrote a bunch of mostly funny books, I’d given a few TED talks, and I liked cats and profanity (equally and a lot). Never once, not even in a drunken stupor or a| Jenna McCarthy
Why are they all blurry? In a recent article, Michael Shermer says about UFOs: UFOlogists claim that extraordinary evidence exists in the form of tens of thousands of UFO sightings. But SETI scient…| Entirely Useless
I’ve been aware of Scientology’s history at Saint Hill Manor near East Grinstead, Sussex, UK for many years. What I hadn’t realised is that several other occult/esoteric/religious organisations are…| The BS Historian
Conspiracy theories never seem to go away. Especially the ones that are said to involve clandestine plots of the United States government. It seems that many Americans believe high-level members of…| Reflections
