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The Power of Belief in Conspiracy Theories
People who subscribe to QAnon maintain that Donald Trump remains the “true” president... why would anyone believe this?...
December 17, 2021
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Conspiracy Theories and Human Psychology
The unsettlingly normal cognitive roots of outlandish explanations...
September 9, 2021
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On Zealous and Unrepentant Times
A Call to Self-Reflection amidst a Dangerous Devotion...
September 28, 2020
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Playing the Ostrich; or, How Not to Think about QAnon
American conspiracy theories and the task of the scholar of religion...
May 18, 2020
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"We Don't Have Enough Proof": Pizzagate as Epistemological Panic
A man with a rifle enters a pizza place, not for the purposes of mass murder or terrorism but on a quest for epistemological certainty. Twenty-eight-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch had heard a theory, and he wanted to know if it was true. He had encoun...