The Origin Story of C

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i was always really interested in conspiracy theories, fringe concepts, hoaxes. i started writing for the blog of the podcast sceptoid. There was no gate keeping. Brian dunting let me do pretty much anything i wanted. It's a total pseudo science nonsense that if you put a certain type of oil in your mouth, and you can tell its pseudo science,. because it doesn't really matter what the oil is. And now give us your orience, origin story. Hachisham to write. Tie bush, sure. C onez for for your grandin was a cu ber, of course. I wish i had a cue teasher to wear for this bodcast, but

Michael Shermer speaks with Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, about QAnon and its followers.

On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a gathering of military officials. He said it felt like “the calm before the storm” — then refused to elaborate as puzzled journalists asked him to explain. But on the infamous message boards of 4chan, a mysterious poster going by “Q Clearance Patriot,” who claimed to be in “military intelligence,” began the elaboration on their own. In the days that followed, Q’s wild yarn explaining Trump’s remarks began to rival the sinister intricacies of a Tom Clancy novel, while satisfying the deepest desires of MAGA-America. But did any of what Q predicted come to pass? No. Did that stop people from clinging to every word they were reading, expanding its mythology, and promoting it wider and wider? No. Why not?