The Guardian reports a new survey finding that "dangerous conspiracy theories" about COVID-19 are surging, virus-like.
This, of course, makes me a major vector: Wikipedia has now sharpened up its entry on myself to make it nastier.
From Steve Bhaerman:
Hi Mark:
I was just referencing your Wikipedia page. Not even Pravda could
have slanted this final paragraph more:
"Miller is a 9/11 truther.[5][6] and is a signatory to the 9/11
Truth Statement.[7] Interviewed by the New York Observer website,
Miller said anyone using the conspiracy theory description "in a
pejorative sense is a witting or unwitting CIA asset".[8]
Following a "truthers" symposium on 9/11, "Justice in Focus",
Miller told Vice the official explanations for 9/11 and the
assassination of John F. Kennedy "are just as unscientific as the
ones that everybody feels comfortable ridiculing", referring to
conservatives dismissal of global warming.[9] Miller has shown his
students the anti-vaccination film Vaxxed made by the disgraced
physician Andrew Wakefield.[5] He has defended the false claims
made in Vaxxed of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and
the assertion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) have been involved in a cover-up.[8]"
You could use it in your class as a classic example of propaganda
... "disgraced physician" (does that mean Bill Gates is "graced"?)
... "defended his false claims". Conveniently enough, college
kids are now so thoroughly brainwashed with PC hogwash that they
have no sense of discernment. I wonder how many would recognize
the bias of this "fact-checking" site. [At least my own students learn to see through such jive---MCM.]
Steve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Crispin_Miller