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The latest issue of The Canadian Charger (which specializes in bashing Israel, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and spreading panic about the alleged health risks associated with wi-fi computer networks) informs us that “Ezra Levant is a Zionist who believes that every … Continue reading →

RFE/RL’s James Kirchick interviewed me about “the persistence of conspiracy theories.” The show can be heard here. The text of the interview appears here and below. Conspiracy theories have existed since the beginning of time, but they have found a … Continue reading →

“There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that [HPV] vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine.”

From (who else?) WorldNetDaily: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona has constituted a special law enforcement posse to investigate allegations brought by members of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party that the birth certificate Barack Obama released to the public … Continue reading →

Remember “Climategate?” That was the apparent scandal that began in 2009 when hackers downloaded and publicized thousands of emails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. Climate-change skeptics claimed that the emails showed that scientists were … Continue reading →

If the Birthers are consistent, they really should demand to see Glen Rice’s birth certificate.

My latest National Post column — about the fake-anti-semitism story at York U. Here’s an excerpt … I found it interesting how quickly the story made the rounds of the internet. Within the space of a few hours on Monday … Continue reading →

Listen here. This week, Toronto hosted a conference of 9/11 skeptics. Most, but not all, of them believe that the CIA was secretly responsible for the attacks. They are part of an incredible movement of people who just don’t buy … Continue reading →

Readers of Among The Truthers will know that it was not intended as a debunking resource for 9/11 conspiracy theories. Still, I did prepare a short appendix to allow readers to refute the most common arguments offered by conspiracy theories. … Continue reading →

“Conspiracy theorists are, in a word, bores. A book about them can’t help but be a bit boring, too.“

I have a new article up on the Canadian news site The Mark explaining the significance of this week’s 9/11 conspiracist conference in Toronto — and why the whole movement is on the downswing. Here are the reasons I give … Continue reading →

Here’s Zerb’s latest — in which she seizes on an upcoming Toronto 9/11 Truth conference to recite the tired litany of conspiracist talking points about Building 7 and the like. (She wrote exactly the same kind of “news” piece seven … Continue reading →

… But he’s no 9/11 conspiracy theorist, as we learn in a great article in The First Post: Take the plane that struck the Pentagon. Many conspiracists say it wasn’t a plane but a missile. Eye-witnesses of a large plane … Continue reading →

Senior Diplomat Asks for Identification of Main Culprits behind 9/11 Attacks TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official and a career diplomat, Mohsen Pakaein, blames the American Neoconservatives for the September 11 attacks on the US, saying that Neocons … Continue reading →

In Western nations, 9/11 conspiracy theories are widespread, but they are still “dissident narratives” that are largely discredited or ignored by mainstream media, political organization and civil-society groups . Not so, in Muslim nations, as Eric Trager reports: In a … Continue reading →

I’m on the syndicated NPR show Here & Now today, talking about my favourite subject: 9/11 conspiracy theories. The show page is here, with full audio available.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ORLY TAITZ, Plaintiff v. MICHAEL ASTRUE, COMMISSIONER OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, Defendant. Civil Action No. 11-402 (RCL) MEMORANDUM OPINION Before the Court is defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment [21]. Upon … Continue reading →

The ADL has a brief, but useful report on anti-semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories, titled Decade of Deceit: Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later. While none of the overall themes will be new to readers of Among The Truthers, the … Continue reading →

The Federal Jack site has a bizarre article up titled “HURRICANE ERIN: The Category 3 Hurricane That Should Have Prevented 9/11 From Happening.” The argument is that “the government of the U.S. has had the ability to modify weather since … Continue reading →

Very sad:

Interesting piece on the Birther web site WorldNetDaily: Two candidates for the [GOP Presidential nomination] are mentioned over and over again – two wonderful, charismatic public servants whose only problem is they are not constitutionally eligible to be president. They … Continue reading →

The world just witnessed the birth of a great new term, thanks to David Brooks of The New York Times: the “alternative-reality right,” which he defines as “those who don’t believe in global warming, evolution or that Obama was born … Continue reading →

The September 11th attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania — and shook our country to its core. And even now, ten years later, thousands of Americans still say they don’t believe the accepted narrative of … Continue reading →

It’s all explained in this conspiracy theorist’s Youtube video. The whole theory revolves around the statue that stands outside the Toronto police headquarters on College Street near Bay. Take a peek next time you pass it. p.s. Did you know … Continue reading →

Dictatorships come in different flavours — communist, fascist, Islamist. Muammar Gaddafi’s dying regime doesn’t fit any of these boxes. What we’re witnessing in Tripoli is the extinction of a one-of-a-kind creature. Gaddafi took power the old-fashioned Third World way — … Continue reading →

… in comic-book form.

Full show is available for download here.

Last Satuday, Rick Perry — long-term Texas governor, evangelical Christian, and expected GOP presidential hopeful — hosted “The Response,” a religious revival in Houston for “a nation in crisis.” Among the prominent Christians whose support is being trumpeted by event … Continue reading →

To understand why S&P lowered Washington’s credit rating on Friday, one need only compare two numbers: U.S. federal tax revenue and U.S. federal expenses as a percentage of GDP. Under Ronald Reagan, the gap was, on average, about 4% (22% … Continue reading →

The popular conspiracist web site Veterans Today has published an unusually ambitious piece that layers together several extravagant conspiracy theories about Afghanistan, al-Qaeda and the war on terror. The author, “Senior Editor” Gordon Duff, claims to have extensive inside information … Continue reading →

Over at FrumForum.com, my friend Tim Mak has an interesting blog post about the combination of NAFTA and Muslim-Brotherhood conspiracy theories merging … What would happen if two of the most notorious conspiracies of the last decade converged to create … Continue reading →

When Adolf Hitler moved to Vienna as a teenager in 1905, he was not an anti-Semite. Or at least, so he reports in the opening chapters of Mein Kampf: “In the Jew, I still saw a man who was [merely] … Continue reading →

This is the sort of claim I would have dismissed as nonsense if one of my conspiracy-theorist correspondents had told me about it: The CIA operated a fake vaccine clinic in Pakistan in its bid to get bin Laden. Surely, … Continue reading →

At least, that’s how the Egyptian agriculture minister is spinning it.

Khaled Mouammar, outgoing President of the Canadian Arab Federation, has always has some fairly unhinged attitudes toward Israel. So maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that he is now distributing an article with the subject line “Possible Israeli Connection to Oslo … Continue reading →

It’s been 100 hours since Anders Behring Breivik began killing people. The reason he did so is no secret: He has told the world that he wanted to punish Norway’s rulers for their allegedly pro-Islamic policies and embrace of multiculturalism. … Continue reading →

Anders Behring Breivik is not only a terrorist and a murderer, but also a plagiarist: Sections from his 1,500-page manifesto were copied directly from that of the “Unabomber,” Ted Kaczynski. And even the material he wrote himself is derivative: From … Continue reading →

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after the Norway killings, Alex Jones’ massively-surfed Infowars site already is fronting with the theory that the tragedy was all part of a conspiracy by European elites to deflect populist disgust … Continue reading →

And guess what? He doesn’t like it! Alas, Kay totally avoids all scientific evidence from the outset referring the reader to the National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST Reports, “debunking websites” and the 9/11 Commission Report for answers … Continue reading →

I recently wrote a lengthy article for the National Post called “Once again, the Jewish question,” in which I argue that Palestinians and Jews remain miles apart on the fundamental question of Israel’s religious identity. During my interviews in Ramallah, … Continue reading →

Conspiracist movements always, inevitably, bump up against the problem of explaining why their epic “truths” aren’t accepted by mainstream society. This has been true in recent months of Obama Birthers, who have become more marginalized and ridiculed now that the … Continue reading →

Journalism is a funny business. The “worthy” articles and essays that you spend days, weeks or even months laboring over sometimes are the ones that get the least attention. On the other hand, a throwaway blog post that might have … Continue reading →

If you’re a fan of 1970s-style science-fiction special effects, the first 60 seconds of Richard D. Hall’s “Richplanet Starship” are worth watching. He even has made up his TV set to look like the deck of a starship.

“Veterans Today” sounds like a reputable web site, doesn’t it? And in fact, many of the articles on the site are of legitimate interest to veterans of the U.S. military, the site‘s ostensible audience. But as the Southern Poverty Law … Continue reading →

Got it for this article … So many people to thank!

The conspiracists at WorldNetDaily are at it again — this time with a new theory that the BATF’s Mexican Project Gunrunner adventure was actually about discrediting private gun-owners. This is, of course, part of a long-running meme in right-conspiracist circles: … Continue reading →

Sarah Elliott, author of the Swallowing The Camel blog, is not a Truther herself. But she has a very interesting personal perspective on the Truther community. And her remarks about my book, the 9/11 Truth movement, and especially the problem … Continue reading →

By now, the whole world knows that Richard Falk, the UN Human Rights Council’s “expert” on the Palestinians, published an anti-Semitic cartoon of a Jewish dog feasting on human blood (see above). We also know that Falk took the cartoon … Continue reading →

One of the interesting aspects of conspiracy theorists that I’ve noted in my book is the brittle, cultish social dynamic that prevails on conspiracist web sites and discussion fora: Conspiracy theorists may appear confident and blustery, but they are actually … Continue reading →

I am at the Yad Vashem center for holocaust studies in Jerusalem for a week, attending lectures by experts on the subject of anti-Semitism. In today’s coursework, an amazing story emerged about a bizarre episode that unfolded at the humanities … Continue reading →