/oss/taxonomy/term/2138/all en /oss/article/critical-thinking/belief-conspiracy-theories-probably-not-getting-worse-over-time <p>A question I am often asked by journalists is if more people believe in conspiracy theories now than before. Sometimes, the question is not even asked; the answer is simply inferred. Of course they are.</p> <p>Even I often feel like it must be true. The COVID-19 pandemic has a twin, an infodemic, which often relies on grand conspiracy theories to be believable. We have all heard the stories that a shadowy “they” don’t want you to know that ivermectin is miraculous and that the vaccines, funded by Bill Gates, are full of tracking devices.</p> Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:46:51 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9194 at /oss /oss/article/controversial-science-health-news/know-or-not-know <p>In the past we heard in the news about a shocking admission from the execs at the National Football League in the USA that they may finally admit to believing that there is a link between football-related head trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE, a degenerative brain disease that is well known to be caused by repeated trauma to the head, such as from concussions.</p> Sat, 02 Apr 2016 14:04:45 +0000 Adam Oliver Brown PhD 2330 at /oss