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 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] lasted nearly two months and involved over 350 witnesses. For good measure, Mary Surratt, landlady of a Washington boarding-house, was also hanged. She had supposedly harboured the conspiracy while it was being hatched, and Booth had tried to recruit her son into it. The Lincoln plotters’ objective was to somehow overthrow the Union government […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] in America, from the mafia to US Steel, his eventual murder feels unsurprising. He does not suggest a solution. He asks (p. 284): ‘Was there an assassination conspiracy, as Bertrand Russell and his Committee feared?….’ This is odd. Like most of the better writers on the subject, he may not be sure of the […]
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 […]