Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world.

We might also add anti-vaxers and climate change deniers, albeit they are less deranged and have wider support The problem, as the reviewer identifies, is that this focus may not have been made sufficiently clear at the start. Gerald Posner, author of Killing the Dream : James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.Conspiracists are often dismissed as fools or psychopaths, but Michael Shermer shows we are all susceptible: left and right, old and young, educated and illiterate. Other chapters consider the psychology and the sociology of conspiracy beliefs, in addition to their changing cultural forms, functions and modes of transmission. The videos are a sort of folk sci-fi, interweaving ideas culled from often contradictory sources in reactionary cultural paranoia.

With seeming coincidences piling up around significant events, it's no wonder so many theories have emerged over the years.By deliberately scrambling the syntax—conspiracy theory cum theory conspiracy—it seeks to open a set of reflections on the articulation . It’s so easy to look around and point the finger at those who benefit most from the world’s problems as being the cause agents when nothing could be further from the truth. The result is a scholarly yet eminently accessible study that strives to make sense of how archival and documentary evidence creates our shared understanding of history. Before I released Extreme Music , I wrote extensively about unusual music subcultures and audiological anomalies, for example artists who put out hourlong blocks of unchanging white noise. In Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy (Viking) , historian Colin Dickey argues that “a paranoia of secret, subversive societies, is not just peripheral to the functioning of democracy, but at its very heart.