Marianna in Conspiracyland - new Radio 4 series/podcast available on Monday 12/6

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I don't know if I'm looking forward to this, exactly, as I expect to be both alarmed and angry about it, but I will give it a go. I find conspiracy theorists completely baffling.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001mssm

Sounds interesting, thanks for flagging it.

Has put me off ‘hippy towns’ such as Totnes and Glastonbury!

I listened to Disaster Trolls after this podcast. Horrifying what some people either are drawn into believing, or make a career out of pretending they believe.

Just listened to this, it's nuts how they deny that they promote violence, and yet also have people casually mentioning that the people behind the covid vaccine should be executed. And I've seen the light linked to on MN before.

Tortoise Investigates popped up in my feed recently. They had done the Sweet Bobby podcast (fascinating and terrifying) but also have one called Hoaxed about a false accusation of ritual abuse in Hamstead. Again, lots of conspiracy nuts and bizarre thought patterns which seem to turn everything back to reinforcing the same crank beliefs.