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Shiftheads - The Conspiracy You Think Is New Has Been Around for 140 Years: Dr. Lee Kuhnle
Conspiracy theories feel new because we encounter them in the moment. Dr. Lee Kuhnle says most of them are not new at all.
The COVID and 5G network conspiracy had a near-identical version with H1N1 and 4G, and before that SARS and 3G. Vaccine protest signs from 1880s Lester, England, documented in Heidi J. Larson's book Stuck, carried the same arguments heard in 2020 and 2022: ulterior motives, rushed testing, government overreach. Dr. Lee Kuhnle says recognizing the recycled narrative is one of the most useful tools available for evaluating whether a new conspiracy has substance behind it…
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