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Category: Conspiracy Theories

Posted on 2017-05-122017-05-13

Ein kurzer Zwischenruf gegen das angeblich so positive Engagement der Verschwörungstheoretiker

Das wäre schön, ist aber doch wohl am wenigsten der Fall. Verschwörungstheoretiker haben kein Interesse an irgendetwas, was ihnen selbst ein positives Engagement abverlangen könnte. Die Umweltzerstörung? – Verschwörungstheoretiker gehen über... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2016-05-052016-05-19

Ich bin zutiefst besorgt über das politische Klima in Deutschland | Interview mit David Bardens nach dem zweiten Urteil im “Masernprozess”

Gibt es das Masernvirus? 2011 lobte Stefan Lanka, in Szenekreisen bekannter deutscher Impfgegner, ein Preisgeld in Höhe von €100.000 aus für den wissenschaftlichen Nachweis des Masernvirus. Die Ausschreibung fand ein internationales Medienecho,... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2016-04-152016-05-10

The Bardens vs Lanka Case | Chronolgy and documentation

This page is an open series of entries on the Bardens vs. Lanka case. It has been of wider interest since had immediately offered the judgments in the case triggered by Stefan Lanka‘s challenge of 2011 (see documents at the bottom of this... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2015-12-102016-04-24

Stephen LeDrew on his ‘The Evolution of Atheism’ | an Interview

Stephen LeDrew was born and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. He completed a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, took a break from academia to spend a year and a half teaching in Japan, and then moved to... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2015-09-202017-03-17

Designed to Mislead Its Own Believers: The Creationist Bible

David Rives posted this wonderful meme on Twitter with the offer to illustrate Isaiah 40:22. "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth." – Isaiah 40:22 pic.twitter.com/iPD2Fjqs8l — David Rives (@TheDavidRives) September... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2015-03-232016-05-09

The Bardens vs. Lanka Case | an Interview with David Bardens

[Click here for the orginal German version of this interview. Follow http://positivists.org/blog/archives/3881 for the successive case documentation. Olaf Simons asked the questions for positivists.org] Olaf Simons: You are in the headlines with an... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2015-03-232016-05-09

Der Fall Bardens gegen Lanka | ein Interview mit David Bardens

[The following interview with David Bardens is also available in a provisional English translation. Die Chronologie des Falles dokumentierten wir auf http://positivists.org/blog/archives/3881 Olaf Simons stellte die Fragen für positivists.org] Olaf... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-08-252016-02-22

Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and the Concept of “Conspiracy Theories”

This is definitely a non-topic. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty – thoughts compiled from April 1950 to April 29, 1951 – does not show any clearer interest in “conspiracy theories”. The very phrase could be there and isn’t. Mental... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-08-202016-02-22

Conspiracy Theory 101: The Paranoid Style

This will be the first post about approaches to studying conspiracy theory. The goal, for now, is to look what has been done, what kind of questions approaches raise and where we go from there. I will start off with a series of posts on definitions,... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-02-182016-02-22

The seven allegations of the Tom Phillips vs. Thomas S. Monson case

The following lines will exploit the interview Tom Phillips gave to people from Infants on Thrones – The Philosophies of Men, Mingled with Humor (a website whose very title betrays a complex interest Mormon creeds). The interview appeared only... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-02-062016-05-10

The Historian’s Outcry | On the Bill Nye versus Ken Ham Debate of Creationism

The debate was – as could be expected (see my posting before the debate) – neither apt to widen our knowledge about evolution nor, and that is far more precarious, nor did it shed much more light on Ken Ham’s creationism. Nye gave his view on why... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-02-052015-03-13

The Bill Nye versus Ken Ham Debate on Youtube

Watch it as long as it is available – and give us your opinions! ... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-02-042015-03-13

Galileo redivivus against a modern democratic pragmatist?

Your posting, Sören, raises two fundamental questions for someone interested in the theories of knowledge at stake here. Is there a democratic way to decide what is right and wrong in the field of knowledge? And if there is not: Do democracies still... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-02-042015-04-17

The Bill Nye—Ken Ham Debate on Creationism (2) | by Sören Koopmann

last | creationism | next... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-02-032017-03-15

The conspiracist and essentially postmodern construct to discuss

Whoever claims that he is giving the Bible a literal reading is either a modern historian who is interested in concepts quite different from his own, or intellectually insincere. The text of Genesis 1 is straight. God created the earth, he separated... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-02-022016-05-12

Early modern creationism was at least scientific

Modern creationists tend to insinuate that they do basically share the beliefs with medieval and early modern authors. That is easier said than done. The very word creationism would not have crossed a Newton’s or a Locke’s mind – though Newton... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-02-012015-03-13

Statistics. Discuss creationism with the propagandists…

US statistics 2012: 46% support creationism. Source Gallup http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx Discussing creationism with pupils and students is usually difficult. US teachers are, as far as I can see, all too... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-01-192015-03-13

Evolution a thing thing one can only discredit in a debate?

The fact that someone from richarddawkins.net should speak against such interviews has of course an ironic twist. The titular saint of that site Dawkins himself has, as far as I can see, never resisted the temptation to venture such a... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2014-01-172014-03-07

The Bill Nye—Ken Ham Debate on Creationism (1)

this thread | next Bill Nye talks about the debate here: As soon as the debate has been announced, the question concerning the sense of debates with creationists arose. I will park some of these here. Benjamin Radford discusses at news.discovery.com... Read More | Share it now!

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