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Boston Bombing Conspiracies and What’s Behind the ‘False Flag’ Crazies

BOSTON CONSPIRACY!

Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky tells Lloyd Grove where the Boston conspiracy theories are coming from.

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The night of the Boston Marathon bombing, Slate political reporter David Weigel posted an essay arguing that unlike other tragedies and major crimes that have fired the imaginations of conspiracymongers, this one boasted too much reality-based evidence, especially photographic and video evidence, to give much encouragement to nutballs and magical...

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