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Conspiracy theories — unmasked! From Winston Churchill to QAnon in a few easy...
SalonDo we live in a golden age of wacko paranoia? No, says German scholar Michael Butter: It's always been with us "Many people may believe that we live in a golden age of conspiracy theories. That's...
View ArticleQAnon followers are drawn to conspiracy theories by these personality traits...
Raw StoryTravis GettysFebruary 19, 2021After the U.S. Capitol insurrection, tens of thousands of Reddit users joined a support group for people who've lost loved ones to the QAnon conspiracy theory.The...
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Disinformation Fuels A White Evangelical Movement. It Led 1 Virginia Pastor...
DALIA MORTADARachel Martin.RACHEL MARTINNPRFebruary 21, 2021Jared Stacy is still processing his decision to leave Spotswood Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, Va., last year. Until November, he was...
View ArticleThe Original Plandemic: Unmasking The Eerily Familiar Conspiracy Theories...
Alex Knapp Forbes StaffCovid-19 truthers believe that 5G technology is dialing up the disease. More than a century ago, telegraph poles and other mysterious causes were blamed for influenza. And each...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 2/22/2021 (NXIVM, Legal, Polygamy, QAnon, Anti-Vax)
NXIVM, Legal, Polygamy, QAnon, Anti-VaxxAlbany Times Union: NXIVM leader Keith Raniere recovering from coronavirus"NXIVM leader Keith Raniere is recovering from COVID-19 in his Arizona prison.And the...
View ArticleHere's What We Know About Convicted NXIVM Sex Cult Leader's Legal Strategy to...
COLIN KALMBACHERLaw & CrimeFebruary 19, 2021Convicted NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere is planning to appeal his 120-year prison sentence based on alleged courtroom error and complaints that he...
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Can Cult Studies Offer Help With QAnon? The Science Is Thin.
Many families have become divided over online political conspiracy theories, but the science on “brainwashing” is weak.MICHAEL SCHULSONUndarkFebruary 24, 2021DAYS BEFORE THE inauguration of President...
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NXIVM WHISTLEBLOWERS LAUNCH NEW PODCAST: A LITTLE BIT CULTY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:As whistleblowers documented in the critically-acclaimed HBO series The Vow, Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames have a lot to say and burning questions for people who’ve...
View ArticleExperts In Cult Deprogramming Step In To Help Believers In Conspiracy Theories
Experts In Cult Deprogramming Step In To Help Believers In Conspiracy TheoriesAll Things ConsideredNPRMarch 2, 2021With disinformation spreading on an unprecedented scale, experts in cult deprogramming...
View ArticleShe Was Seen as a Victim in the Sarah Lawrence Cult Case. Now She's Charged.
Isabella Pollok was one of the students at Sarah Lawrence College who prosecutors said was exploited by a classmate’s father, Lawrence V. Ray. Now she is under indictment, too.Benjamin Weiser and Ezra...
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Jehovah’s Witnesses to join redress scheme for child sexual abuse survivors
Rebecca GredleyNews Daily Mar 3, 2021Authorities are urging the Jehovah’s Witnesses to contact them to get the ball rolling on the religious group’s decision to join the national redress scheme for...
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Indian man accused of beheading teen daughter in apparent "honor killing"
MARCH 4, 2021CBS NEWSIndian police have arrested a man and accused him of decapitating his own teenage daughter in a rage over her relationship with another man he didn't like, BBC News reported on...
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Mexico Ruling Party Denies Leader Was Part of Sex Cult
Max De HaldevangBloomberg March 4, 2021Mexico’s ruling party denied a report in a local investigative publication that its leader, Mario Delgado, had been part of a notorious sex cult.The Morena...
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Sydney party mum on escaping Jehovah's Witness religion
At 40, Sydney woman Trish Carr had slept with one man but after an “epiphany” she escaped into a new world of parties.Gary NunnNEWS.com.auMARCH 6, 2021For decades Paul Grundy and Trish Karr lived under...
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How We Survived Growing Up in Apocalyptic Cults
When you’ve been preparing for doomsday your whole life, and the world doesn’t end, how do you go on living?DAVID EPSTEINSlate MARCH 06, 2021Pop culture is obsessed with cults, but what does it...
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They must have foreseen the final sale price: Psychic hotline kings sell Fort...
JORDAN PANDYThe Real DealMarch 9, 2021The former owners of the Psychic Readers Network sold their waterfront Fort Lauderdale mansion for $14 million, five years after listing it for $27.5...
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Panda Express staff forced to strip at team-building seminar that seemed like...
Teo ArmusWashington PostMarch 10, 2021The Panda Express cashier had already been forced to strip to her underwear in front of her fellow staff during a “self-improvement” seminar in 2019, she said, and...
View ArticleYoga in pandemic times: fitness or religion?
Religion WatchBaylor University Institute for the Study of ReligionVolume 36 No. 4A legal case in Switzerland is once again raising the question of the religious nature of yoga and similar practices,...
View ArticleHigh court rejects appeal of Aum cult leader’s 4th oldest daughter to receive...
Japan TodayMarch 11, 2021TOKYOThe Tokyo High Court has rejected an appeal by the fourth oldest daughter of Shoko Asahara (real name Chizuo Matsumoto), the executed cult leader of Aum Shinrikyo, to...
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Religious groups file brief in support of Amish appeal to Supreme Court
The Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty and the National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Amish gray water case.Emily CuttsDuluth...
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