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It’s One of the Most Influential Social Psychology Studies Ever. Was It All a Lie? 

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On the night before Christmas in 1954, a Chicago housewife named Dorothy Martin begged her followers to step outside, sing together, and wait, at last, for the aliens.  Things hadn’t been going well for Martin, the leader of a small UFO-based religious movement usually known as the Seekers. She had previously told her followers that, […]

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Majorie Taylor Greene No Longer Trusts the Plan

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In a stunning announcement posted to Twitter/X on Friday night, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that she will resign her seat in the House on January 5, 2026. The announcement comes after Greene publicly skirmished with Donald Trump over the release of the Epstein files. Trump has responded by calling her a “traitor,” a […]

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The Anti-Vax Movement’s Wildest Claim Yet: Polio Wasn’t So Bad

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Even in the house of horrors that is vaccine-preventable illnesses, polio stands out as particularly terrifying. Before the rollout of the vaccine in the 1950s, the disease paralyzed or killed more than 500,000 people worldwide every year. The disease was especially catastrophic for children, some of whom were confined for years to wheelchairs or a […]

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GOP Lawmakers Are Using a Wild Conspiracy Theory to Attack Medication Abortion

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House Republicans are now talking about combing through sewers in search of microscopic evidence of our abortions.

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Did MAGA Conspiracy Theories Doom the Lab-Grown Burger?

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Scientists once predicted meat-making machines on every kitchen counter, but so far cultured meat—grown from the cells of an animal in a lab or factory—has only been seen at a handful of high-end restaurants. There are entirely practical reasons the stuff has yet to make its debut at McDonald’s, but also bizarre, conspiratorial ones; some […]

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Trump Shares AI Deep-Fake Video of Himself Promoting Fictional “MedBed” Product

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The “MedBed” conspiracy theory has led to websites seeking to scam people who wrongly believe that the product is real.

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Laura Loomer Is “Basically a Cabinet Member at This Point”

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Conspiracy theorist and self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer continues to wield a jarring amount of power in the Trump administration. The latest example: She appears to have had a Democratic senator’s classified visit to a military spy agency canceled. On Wednesday, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that […]

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Trump Doesn’t Like Jobs Numbers, Fires Head of Labor Stats

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Economist Dean Baker says Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is a “four alarm fire.”

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How Does the Epstein Scandal End? 

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Last week, top officials in Donald Trump’s version of the Justice Department, including Todd Blanche, the president’s former personal criminal attorney, paid a visit to Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite turned sex trafficker. Maxwell is currently serving 20 years for her role in helping the financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse women and girls; according to a […]

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Donald Trump Is Visibly Upset With His MAGA Base Over Epstein “List” Fallout

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Trump has benefited for years from a MAGA conspiracy theory alleging that Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list.”

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