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By Rachel Brazil2021-04-26T09:25:00+01:00
Rachel Brazil looks into the dangerous world of chemical conspiracy theories and asks the experts what we can do about it
In the age of Covid-19, conspiracy theories are all around us. Some say the virus was created by the military, others blame symptoms on 5G technology and some even say the virus doesn’t exist at all. But conspiracy theories are not new. ‘They’ve always been a way of thinking that people turn to in times of crisis, when things are not clear,’ says social psychologist Karen Douglas from the University of Kent in the UK.