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Social media posts promoting natural health products propagate the narrative that mainstream medicine disregards natural cures for the sake of profit. But this narrative is flawed and can lead to an incorrect assessment of the risks and benefits of natural health products. We explain in this Insight article.
Highly mediatized disease outbreaks like COVID-19 and hantavirus are invariably plagued by conspiracy theories alleging that they are a hoax or planned. Why are these conspiracy theories so appealing and what makes people vulnerable to them? We discuss these topics in detail in this Insight article.
The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak triggered a wave of conspiracy theories and misinformation about ivermectin and vaccines, which were popular during the pandemic.
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Flights from New Zealand to Argentina connect through the U.S., which only makes sense if the Earth is flat.
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Antarctica’s perimeter is larger than Earth’s circumference which should not be possible, proving Antarctica is an ice wall and we live on a flat Earth
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Ether was removed from history books and the periodic table due to a conspiracy by powerful interests.
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The United Kingdom Meteorological Office (the Met Office) is fabricating data/making up numbers for weather stations that are closed.
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Observations show that the Earth is flat.
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Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing modalities” to profit from petroleum-based medicine, had natural medicine practitioners arrested and jailed