9/11 was an inside job. Aliens have already made contact. COVID-19 was created in a lab.
Possibly you rolled your eyes in some unspecified time in the future whereas studying that checklist. Or possibly you paused on one and thought… effectively… it may very well be true.
For the reason that first Individuals began chatting on-line, conspiracy theories have turn out to be mainstream — and worthwhile. It is gotten tougher to separate reality and fiction. But when we do not know who we will belief, how does a democracy survive?
On right now’s episode, we journey the web from UFOs, by 9/11, to COVID, to hint how we ended up in a world that may’t be believed.
Company:
Garrett Graff, journalist, historian, and writer of UFO: The Inside Story of the US Authorities’s Seek for Alien Life Right here―and Out There
Walter Scheirer, Dennis O’Dowdy Collegiate Professor of Engineering on the College of Notre Dame, and writer of A Historical past of Faux Issues On The Web
Korey Rowe, Artistic Director, Otsego Media
Dylan Avery, unbiased filmmaker
Wendy Welch, writer of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories and Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do
Alina Chan, molecular biologist on the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard specializing in gene remedy and cell engineering
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