Prominent economist Paul Samuelson wrote in Newsweek in 1966, “Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.” One could say something similar ...

Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, ...

Put on your tinfoil hats: New research finds that belief in conspiracy theories might be more common in the U.S. than you might think. "A fair number of people heard about and believe these ...

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President Donald Trump promoted "medbeds" on Truth Social this weekend, sharing an AI-generated video before deleting it 12 hours later. Since its posting, folks on social media have called out Trump ...

Perhaps nowhere is this more clear than when it comes to conspiracy theories: Many people believe that you can’t talk conspiracists out of their beliefs. But that’s not necessarily true. It turns out ...

Meteorologists were warning about the dangers of Hurricane Melissa's intensity and crawling slow speed ahead of its powerful ...