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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

David Aaronovitch London: Jonathan Cape, £17.99, h/b In his introduction Aaronovitch tells us he became interested in conspiracy theories when someone he was working with introduced him to the ‘they-didn’t-go-to-the-moon’ theory; and this offended his ‘sense of plausibility’. He’s right: we all have a kind of plausibility threshold, beyond which a proposition about the world … Read more

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Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] was mistakenly hanged for the Christie murders; and wrote a best-selling book on the case, A Man On Your Conscience. Was Eddowes just muddying the water with disinformation on the assassination, or had he really uncovered evidence to confirm his theories? Strangely, although central to his theory on the assassination, Novotny is only briefly […]

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UFOs in the White House Pantry: The Rockefeller Initiative

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] wrote to me asking me to disclose their names – with the promise of bringing criminal charges where appropriate. When I raised the issue of the forgers’ disinformation activities in New Mexico in the 1980s, and asked whether, in such circumstances, investigations would be proper or unbiased, he promptly back-tracked, adding ‘that casts a […]

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The view from the bridge

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[…] Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Disinfo So there was Ben Macintyre in The Times (18 April), regaling us again with the story of the Soviet disinformation in the 1980s about AIDS being a US Army germ warfare project. Macintyre sees this event as a forerunner of today’s Russian disinformation projects.1 What he […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Disinfo So there was Ben Macintyre in The Times (18 April), regaling us again with the story of the Soviet disinformation in the 1980s about AIDS being a US Army germ warfare project. Macintyre sees this event as a forerunner of today’s Russian disinformation projects.1 What he […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] group or that, western corporations began subscribing to the services of organisations which claimed or 8 9 3 to be able to detect purveyors and amplifiers of disinformation. NewsGuard was the one I noticed first when Consortium News reported that it had run foul of the organisation’s disinformation detectors.10 Since when other commercial organisations […]

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[…] group or that, western corporations began subscribing to the services of organisations which claimed or 8 9 3 to be able to detect purveyors and amplifiers of disinformation. NewsGuard was the one I noticed first when Consortium News reported that it had run foul of the organisation’s disinformation detectors.10 Since when other commercial organisations […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

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[…] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

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[…] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

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