History and Science
Why Wingnuts Don’t Care About Real-World Evidence
Today, let’s see how wingnuts like Patrice Lewis assess truth claims in the first place. They do it a lot differently from reality-based people.
History and Science
The Increasing Numbers of COVID Denialists Dying of COVID
Hi and welcome back! My mind was blown by this opinion piece in Religion News recently. In it, a Duke University ethics professor tells us she wants us to stop talking about COVID deniers getting COVID and dying. Instead, she wants us to focus on happy things and bringing about Read more
History and Science
QAnon Lies, and People Die
Hi and welcome back! News of the COVID-19 surge has been unrelentingly awful. One theme dominates that news, too: almost all of the people dying in this surge are unvaccinated. Sure, some of those unvaccinated folks just never got A Round Tuit. But a lot of others have turned out Read more
The Games We Play
Sovereign Citizens Ideology Has Infested New Zealand (LSP #179)
Hi and welcome back! Well, I suppose it was inevitable that wackadoodles in New Zealand would eventually happen upon the sovereign citizens movement. Indeed, this story might just be yet another so-called gift we can thank COVID-19 for. Today, Lord Snow Presides over yet another woo conspiracy theory that just won’t go Read more
Analyzing Christianity
Way Too Much Projection in the Conspiracy in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #128, Ch. 16)
In this installment, we get to the heart of the earthly plot to take over Ashton–and we break our WTF-meters with Christian projection. Today, Lord Snow Presides over a dark conspiracy that is way more likely to happen in Christian circles than secular ones.
Analyzing Christianity
The Google Ghost and the Endtimes Scare
While we were sleeping, thousands of people were plugging nonsense words into Google Translate to see what would happen.