Lushington D Brady: It’s Not a Lie if They Believe

“Pandemic of Misinformation” Is a Lie

It’s an article of faith among the chattering classes that the nasty proles are simply too stupid to be allowed to think for ourselves. We’re witless sheep only fit to be herded hither and yon by “smarter” people. They even have a name for their snobbish delusion: “nudge theory”. Left to our own devices, we’re dangerous prey for “misinformation and disinformation”.

Not to mention conspiracy theories.

David Farrar: Taxpayer funded conspiracy theories

Josh Drummond shares his conspiracy theory about how there is somehow a link between the No campaign on The Australian voice referendum, and various groups in NZ.

Now I have no problem with Joshua shouting out his conspiracy theory to anyone who will listen. He's wrong in every aspect, but he is entitled to be wrong. But what has happened is taxpayers have paid for his conspiracy theory to be turned into a documentary that screened on the state television broadcaster. So we have taxpayer funded misinformation.

Mike Hosking: Far too many fall down conspiracy rabbit holes

Back to the Pfizer "scandal" and the "revelation" that Pfizer admitted it never tested its vaccine to work out whether it stopped transmission of Covid.

Like virtually all of these sorts of breathless revelations, the real story is not as simple as it seems. But in simple teams, what is claimed didn't happen. It is not the scandal those who think it is, want it to be.

Mike Hosking: How much attention should we give conspiracy theorists?

It's an interesting conundrum.

The Herald yesterday led for an extended period of time with a piece written by The Spinoff about a story that had semi taken off about Jacinda Ardern and her trip to America, but more specifically to a company called BlackRock.

I would not have mentioned it. In fact, I didn’t, given I got the emails early yesterday in what was clearly yet another orchestrated attempt by crazies to pedal the latest conspiracy theory. The theory is, I think, I'm not entirely sure because it’s a waste of time going down the rabbit hole.

But the conspiracy theory in the broadest of senses is there is a one world type project and we are all being manipulated. More specifically, BlackRock, which is a heavyweight investment company, is thought by the crazies to own mainstream media, all pharmaceutical companies, and are part of the overarching conspiracy about this new world order.

Barend Vlaardingerbroek: COVID-19 as a candidate for conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theory – the theory that an event or phenomenon occurs as a result of a conspiracy between interested parties; spec. a belief that some covert but influential agency … is responsible for an unexplained event. - Oxford English Dictionary

In a Sydney pub one day in 1983 I was engaged in conversation by an elderly man who informed me that the minerals supposedly exported by Australia to Japan actually originate in Japan from where they are transferred through submarine pipes to Aussie only to be sent back, the purpose of the deception being to create the impression of two-way trade to ensure Japanese domination in the Australian consumer market in vehicles and electronics.