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Jilly_in_VA

(9,965 posts)
Wed Nov 3, 2021, 10:50 AM Nov 2021

Is Bill Gates a modern witch? COVID conspiracy theories involving billionaire similar to witch hunt

Bill Gates is planning to microchip the world through a COVID-19 vaccine. The 5G networks scattered around the world are causing people to catch coronavirus. COVID-19 was spread by Maine lobsters shipped to China.

The COVID-19 pandemic has given birth to some outrageous conspiracy theories packed with misinformation like the ones above, and new research from UCLA sheds light on how these false narratives developed.

One of the researchers on the project was University of California, Berkeley professor Timothy Tangherlini, who teaches a class on the application of social network analysis methods to the study of Old Norse sagas.

"The narrative structures are of course the same – as humans growing up in cultural groups, we've become incredibly adept at telling stories that help explain how the world works, and why it looks the way it does," Tangherlini told USA TODAY.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/03/bill-gates-conspiracies-share-many-similarities-witch-hunts/8554819002/

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Is Bill Gates a modern witch? COVID conspiracy theories involving billionaire similar to witch hunt (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Nov 2021 OP
If you believe Biblical magic, you'll believe about anything. rickyhall Nov 2021 #1
Um, sorry, but Bible "magic" is no different than Torah "magic". whathehell Nov 2021 #2
Magic is magic, none of it's real. Only science is real. No scapegoating here. rickyhall Nov 2021 #3
Sorry, but you don't get to define what's "real".and what's not. whathehell Nov 2021 #5
Oh I've heard some ridiculously stupid shit in the last 18 months. Initech Nov 2021 #4

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
2. Um, sorry, but Bible "magic" is no different than Torah "magic".
Wed Nov 3, 2021, 11:17 AM
Nov 2021

or Koran magic. Find another scapegoat.

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
5. Sorry, but you don't get to define what's "real".and what's not.
Wed Nov 3, 2021, 11:37 AM
Nov 2021

Check out the DU forums...There are many non- atheist members here, and we do have rules about showing respect to other DU members.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
4. Oh I've heard some ridiculously stupid shit in the last 18 months.
Wed Nov 3, 2021, 11:35 AM
Nov 2021

But nothing quite on the level of what the right is doing to Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci. This is a whole new level of insanity. Of course the 1918 and 1790 pandemics had their share of whackjobs and conspiracy theorists too. The difference is, we have Facebook.

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