Annie Kelly
Team Human
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The Rise of Conspiracy Theory
conspiracy theory is a reaction to a world where all of those things have broken down things aren't quite making sense anymore. The stories we were told about covid really finally weren't kind of true they refused to accept any question about whether the disease was laboratory made or human made. When your government is playing that kind of Walter Lippmann game if you will by sort of slightly white lying to everybody you're going to get a healthy response of people saying hey wait a minute the what's happening here is more complex and interconnected than you're giving a credit for I mean so do you see in some ways the recent rise in conspiracy theory as a kind of a almost a healthy immune response to a
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