Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] New Scientist had announced the research by Dr Sherman et al. in an article on 22 January 2019, with the headline: ‘Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory’.4 New Scientist stated on 22 January 2019: ‘Adolf Hitler’s deputy flew to Scotland in 1941 and was imprisoned for the rest of his life. But […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] relationships with women) by molesting and abusing teenage boys. His homely man-of-the-people act had a darker, bullying side. But was he part of a broader, overarching paedophile conspiracy? The evidence for that is not clear at all. Casting himself as a vigilante exposing perverts in high places, and with his wife building up an […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] example of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy is hard to imagine. The Times followed their tiny ‘scoop‘ with a version of three other familiar ‘British conspiracy theories’, as they put it, about Wilson. The Times sections are italicised A KGB plot One conjecture connects Harold Wilson to the sudden death of Hugh […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Heathfield’s then wife, the late Betty Heathfield, had been a member of the CPGB; it wasn’t hard for the secret state to present this as a communist conspiracy. In charge of MI5’s operation against the NUM, then the head of its F2 branch, Stella Rimington, wrote later: ‘The 1984 miners’ strike was supported by […]