conspiracy theories

Source: https://youtu.be/uO4W7IbdwsI What are the flaws in some common truther arguments? Did the collapse of the Twin Towers truly resemble a controlled demolition? What's the process like when a person becomes and quits being a conspiracy theorist? These are some of the key questions I discuss...

The ongoing eruption of Kilauea is interesting for a number of Metabunk related reasons. Firstly there's the association of volcanos with the solar radiation management proposals in the field of geoengineering. Volcanoes spew a lot of sulphur dioxide and ash into the air which (simplifying)...

Surveillance footage has been released. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZRgVX8SYX4 A certain someone has been posting these Las Vegas related memes on my Facebook timeline: I know they're totally incorrect, but I'm having trouble finding anything to link to that outright debunks...

This forum is intended to allow for the discussion of current events that are likely to prompt conspiracy theories or other false claims or theories that could need investigation and explaining. Discussion should be fact based, and should be backed up with quotes, links, etc. Avoid speculation...

A recent paper suggests (somewhat unexpectedly) that rational arguments and ridiculing can be effective against conspiracy beliefs, but emotional arguments are not. Orosz, G., Krekó, P., Paskuj, B., Tóth-Király, I., Bőthe, B., & Roland-Lévy, C. (2016): Changing Conspiracy Beliefs through...

The Daily Sheeple published this story not too long ago: IS THE ARMY PREPARING FOR A MAJOR DEPLOYMENT: ORDERS 177,000 BULLETPROOF ARMOR PLATES Traditionally, the best way to keep track of future military deployments – absent unexpected events, of course – has been to follow key procurement...

Wikipedia Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-born American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor-at-large of Time. He is the...

A scientific paper of the above title published yesterday in PNAS Early Edition may be of interest to Metabunk members: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/01/02/1517441113.full.pdf Significance The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the...

First, the facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur_incident The Malheur incident is an ongoing event in eastern Oregon connected with the Bundy standoff. On January 2, 2016, armed members of several rump militias took control of the headquarters building at the United States Fish and...

From a story by the Activist Post website: A Bill has just passed the US Senate, mandating that the US Department of Veteran Affairs ensure that all veterans receive immunizations (vaccines) per a draconian schedule. At this juncture, active military must receive over a dozen vaccines. This...

Warnings about the Strong Cities Network have been making their way around the internet in the last few weeks. The initiative has drawn a new round of UN world government/Agenda 21 claims from a variety of conspiracy websites...

An article appeared in Natural News on 26 August with the headline: “Why did Obama nationalize the U.S. food supply with executive order 13603?” http://www.naturalnews.com/050940_Obama_executive_orders_food_supply.html In March 2012, President Obama quietly signed an Executive Order that has...

Conspiracy theorists constantly post videos of freight trains carrying military equipment around the country as evidence of some type of impending disaster; military coup plotting, preparation for an economic collapse, takeover by the New World Order, a United Nations invasion, as a precursor to...

Notorious Romanian hacker, Guccifer, is responsible for gaining access to a number of high ranking official's email accounts. This NYT article casually mentioned that Guccifer said there are alleged plans for a nuclear attack in Chicago and an unnamed Pennsylvania city 2015. As quoted from the...

It was probably only a matter of time before false flag claims started appearing in relation to the Charleston shooting. http://everydayconcerned.net/2015/06/21/charleston-shooting-another-false-flag/ A number of websites have found a Department of Homeland Security training schedule that...