From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists.
From COVID-19 to climate change, scientists are facing a flood of hate mail, threats and harassment from conspiracy theorists.
Did conspiracy theorists ever have a good name?
“Nutjobs” sounds like a good name.
Nut job sounds like a Pixar movie involving 2 squirrels, a chipmunk and a hamster trying to break into the planters’ peanut whatehouse.
Sure back when it was the British and American aristocracies coming up with shadowy organizations that must have perpetrated the French revolution.
Doesn’t seem to be tarnished when Smedly Butler unveiled the business plot, nor when the Pentagon papers leaked or evidence of MKULTRA was discovered. Then all the sudden right around the time they stopped teaching humanities at public schools all these groups appeared with very specific very laughable conspiracies they were blindly dedicated to.
And now it’s just shorthand for pedophile racist.