The malevolent Cardinal Pell has died1. In response to Pell’s demise, the idiotic Tony Abbott said: “Australia has lost a great son and the Church has lost a great leader…….
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Badham, V. 2021. QAnon and on: A short and shocking history of internet conspiracy cults. Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 469p.1 I cannot remember where I heard about this book initially, but…
After the US mid-term elections, I wrote a piece about some astonishing data from the University of Michigan in which 94% of voters (presumably mostly educated young students) at the…
Everyone but the supremely gullible know that the SARS-Cov2 virus caused the Covid-19 pandemic that has so far resulted in more than 662 million infections and more than 6.6 million…
Almost eighteen months ago I wrote a piece about what was then termed ‘Long Covid’, the persistence of symptoms in multiple organ systems beyond the acute phase of SARS-Cov2 infection….
The emotional appeal of a conspiracy theory is in its simplicity. It explains away complex phenomena, accounts for chance and accidents, offers the believer the satisfying sense of having special, privileged access to the truth. For those who become the one-party state’s gatekeepers, the repetition of these conspiracy theories also brings another reward: power.
Every year, up until recently (I thought), the RWNJs from places like the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) and the Murdoch gutter media have maintained that there is a war…
The Murdoch pretend journalist Adam Creighton has tweeted the following “‘My mask protects you, your mask protects me’. The most embarrassing, unscientific slogan of the pandemic?”1 There were numerous replies…