The claim was made by the retired professor in his book, which argued that the Newtown, Connecticut, mass shooting — which left 20 first-graders and six staff members dead — never happened and was instead a hoax staged by the federal government in an effort to pass stricter gun laws.
A Dane County jury deliberated for almost four hours before slapping Fetzer with the $450,000 fine, the Wisconsin State Journal reported! Videos for Sandy Hook Father To Receive $ 450 , 000 Sandy Hook Father Awarded $ 450 , 000 in Defamation Lawsuit WSJ!! Fetzer called the amount "absurd" and vowed to appeal, the newspaper reported.
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To push back against deniers, he has released Noah's birth certificate, medical records and report cards to the public and has had DNA samples taken to prove Noah is his son.
While you're here, how about this:
Are conspiracy theories on the rise in the US?
Liberty Vittert does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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While it may be true that the internet has allowed people who believe in conspiracies to communicate more , it has not increased the number of Americans who believe in conspiracies, according to the data available.
A "conspiracy theory" is a theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot, usually by powerful conspirators.
Over 29% of the American population believe there is a "Deep State" working against President Donald Trump. Nineteen percent believe that the government is using chemicals to control the population.
Trump's Conspiracy Theories Got Him Into This - The Atlantic
But dig into the academic research on conspiracy theories, and you realize how odd the current environment actually is. Until Trump, scholars assumed that holding the White House inoculated parties from conspiracism! 1:07 " Sandy Hook group releases 'hard to watch' school shooting awareness video" MSN!! They viewed conspiratorial thinking as a weapon of the weak, which couldn't seriously threaten the republic because its adherents wielded so little influence in government.
That's what makes today's GOP so unusual and so dangerous. Never before in modern American history has a political party been this paranoid and this powerful at the same time.
The real danger isn't the Republican Party's fantasies themselves. It's the realities that Trump and the GOP can use those fantasies to create.
Ukraine, Australia, Italy, and UK feature in Trump-backed conspiracies - Vox
The Trump administration is embroiled in scandals stretching from Ukraine to Australia. It all stems from beliefs in debunked right-wing conspiracy theories.
President Donald Trump is embroiled in a major scandal that stretches from Ukraine to Australia — all stemming from his belief in long-debunked right-wing conspiracy theories.
This idea stems from a conspiracy theory that has circulated in right-wing media for several years and has been thoroughly debunked! Sandy Hook Father Is Awarded $450,000 in Defamation Case www.nytimes.com /2019/10/16/us/ sandy - hook -defamation.html Sandy Hook Father Is Awarded $450,000 in Defamation Case The award comes several months after a Wisconsin judge ruled that Leonard Pozner had been defamed by an author of a book promoting claims...!! Yet Trump believes it all the same — enough that he felt the need to rope a foreign leader into investigating it.
But new reporting this week reveals that this is not the only wacky right-wing internet conspiracy theory that Trump has latched on to and tried to enlist foreign help to investigate.
We now know that a collection of these conspiracy theories has driven Trump to reach out to the governments of Australia, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
This may worth something:
The Deep State Conspiracy Is About to Go Into Overdrive
For decades the American far right has depended on conspiracy theories to explain why the nation keeps adopting progressive policies of which they disapprove.
Sen. Joseph McCarthy famously argued in 1951 that the World War II hero Gen. George C. Marshall, who had been both Harry Truman's secretary of state and then secretary of defense, had made decisions that helped the Soviet Communists in their drive to dominate the world! Sandy Hook father awarded $450,000 from defamation suit ...fox2now.com /2019/10/17/ sandy - hook - ...defamation-suit Sandy Hook father awarded $450,000 from defamation suit A 2013 Phoenix law that adds "sexual orientation, gender identity or expression" to the city's nondiscrimination ordinance violated the...!! McCarthy did not go as far as branding Marshall a traitor, but he did charge that Marshall—a great war hero who helped lead the planning of D-Day and had been Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1943—led "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man."
Were old Joe McCarthy still with us he would be in awe of the lengths to which Donald Trump and his GOP and "conservative" lackeys have gone to discredit their perceived Democratic enemies. Each day Trump ups the ante by openly seeking the help of foreign governments (Russia, Ukraine and now China) to take action to destroy his main political rival in 2020, former Vice-President Joe Biden.
Why conspiracy theories are deeply dangerous
A Wisconsin man who claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting never happened was ordered to pay $450,000 to… https://t.co/SEp9QXRzIt ABC (from New York City / Worldwide) Wed Oct 16 20:24:04 +0000 2019
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